Overview

• On Prime Video’s Two Much with Kajol and Twinkle, Salman Khan recounted first feeling the sharp facial pain on the 2007 Partner set when Lara Dutta brushed a hair from his face.
• He described attacks striking every four to five minutes for seven and a half years, turning simple acts like eating or speaking into ordeals and leaving strong painkillers largely ineffective.
• Khan said the problem was initially treated as a dental issue, noting he took roughly 750 mg painkillers and only noticed brief easing after a drink or two before doctors recognized a nerve disorder.
• He underwent Gamma Knife radiosurgery in 2011, a seven-to-eight-plus-hour procedure with head-frame screws, and reports the pain disappeared entirely despite expectations of only partial relief.
• While calling trigeminal neuralgia the “suicidal disease” to raise awareness, he added that a brain aneurysm and an arteriovenous malformation remain ongoing health considerations.