24F Just Diagnosed

Hi, I’m 24F and after basically a year of symptoms and two months of not being able to leave my apartment because the pain fear and anxiety is so intense, I finally got confirmation from my neurologist that I do indeed have Trigeminal Neuralgia.

I don’t know where to go from here, my doctor is recommending a nerve block, but I just want my life back. I’ve had a hard young adulthood with bouts of homelessness and trafficking but I’ve always been sober and worked.

I just need to get back to work and sleeping and eating but idk how. I got a diagnosis but I feel so scared because I’m so young and I feel a lot of irony and frustration because I have attempted before a few times and was always told it would get better. It didn’t, and now I have the actual “suicide disease”.

Any advice for people my age diagnosed or how to live? My life is falling apart, there’s other stuff going on but this is the main thing keeping me down. I also have to go to the dentist because my teeth hurt so bad and I’m afraid that that visit will cause unbearable flares.

Thank you.