The facial pain was so unbearable that it affected Dominic Frasca’s ability to conduct everyday tasks.

“It is like somebody hit you in the head with a sledgehammer,” Frasca, a Manchester resident said. “You would never want anybody to go through that type of pain.”

In 2020 after having a stroke, Frasca was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia , a rare neurological condition that causes severe facial pain and is referred to as “suicide disease” because the pain is so horrific, doctors say.

While undergoing microvascular decompression surgery, which moved a blood vessel off the nerve brought relief for Frasca, the trigeminal neuralgia returned in 2022 when doctors found a tumor pushing against the trigeminal nerve.

Doctors did not want to perform surgery again in the same area. The pain

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