Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Ok, any drug we try will be a pain medication . You mean is there something for nerve pain other than dangerous narcotics . The answer is a very very emphatic YES. There are MANY. They are all very safe and non-addicting and most are very inexpensive. Aspirin like drugs worked on me, mostly they don t. They are easy to try. My jaw pain from martial arts dropped to zero within an hour and lasted til the drug wore off and felt like a fire alarm went off in my jaw when it did. And, nerve pills: gabapentin, amitryptiline, lyrica, maybe cymbalta are very effective and work in a day. Lidocaine patch can also work if the nerve is near the surface where the drug reaches it. Direct acting procedures can work, but they are not incredibly cheap. There can be tens unit (applied ONLY by a specialist because it has a warning about use on the head but the risk is highly over rated). There can be implantable tens units that work all the time. There can be local injection to numb or kill the nerve. It is very treatable. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.