Help For Neuralgia

Neuralgia simply means nerve pain — pain arising from irritation or damage to a nerve.

It often presents as sudden, sharp, shooting, stabbing, or electric‑shock‑like pain, and can leave people suffering for months without relief.

Common forms include:

• Trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain)

• Post‑herpetic neuralgia (pain persisting after shingles)

• Occipital neuralgia

• Sciatic neuralgia (sciatica)

Neuralgia has traditionally been difficult to treat. It often responds poorly to medication, and manual therapies such as manipulation or massage can aggravate symptoms rather than relieve them.

However, Integral Light Therapies frequently produce rapid, meaningful improvement, even in long‑standing cases.

A Recent Case Example

Mary, aged 79, had endured five months of severe pain affecting her scalp, ear, and occiput. Multiple medical assessments found no structural abnormality.

One detail stood out: she had recently had a lump in her neck investigated. It was identified as a swollen lymph node and deemed “nothing to worry about.”

When speaking with her daughter, I learned Mary had rated her pain “100 out of 10.” That comment — combined with the lymph node history — immediately suggested a pattern I’ve seen many times.

Mary had experienced an RSV infection months earlier. I suspected post‑viral lymphatic inflammation irritating the occipital nerve.

When she arrived, the signs were clear:

• a distinctly swollen lymph node

• puffiness in the soft tissue behind and below the angle of the mandible

• tenderness along the inflamed pathways

I treated her using sequenced light frequencies targeted at calming focal inflammation (blue/magenta) and supporting lymphatic clearance (orange/gold).

Red and infrared frequencies — popular in many devices — are often aggravating in acutely inflamed situations, so I avoided these.

The result was immediate. Mary sat up and said it was the first time in months she had felt no pain.

Half an hour later her daughter texted:

“Hi Simon, thanks again for helping Mum. She wanted me to let you know that when she got in the car, she realised her earache had gone too! She is so happy to have relief from the pain.”

Experiences like this are common. I expect to see Mary another two or three times to consolidate the improvement, but the shift was unmistakable.

The Key Message

Neuralgia is highly treatable. But it requires an approach that goes beyond conventional ideas — one that recognises the role of the lymphatic and glymphatic systems, and how they influence the immune system’s ability to resolve inflammation around nerves.

If you know someone living with neuralgia or unexplained nerve pain, please let them know that there are effective options available, and that I may be able to help.