Shingles: Get Immediate Treatment for Sudden Severe Pain

If you suddenly develop severe pain in a limitedtoo late to prevent the pain from lasting the rest
area on one side of your body, you may haveof your life. Fifty percent of people over 60 who
shingles and need treatment immediately todevelop shingles, and are not treated, will suffer
prevent that pain from lasting for the rest offrom post-herpetic neuralgia and have severe pain
your life. Shingles is Chicken Pox the second timein that nerve for the rest of their lives, while
around. It's called postherpetic neuralgia and whenfewer than seven percent treated with acyclovir
you have severe pain that is not caused by anwill suffer permanent pain. Cortisones offer little
injury and your doctor cannot find a cause, youprotection. If you develop postherpetic neuralgia,
should get a blood test for herpes zoster andyour pain can be treated with a .025% capsaicin
start taking Famvir or Valtrex immediately to(pepper) cream and tegretol or gabapentin
prevent the pain from becoming permanent.Theanticonvulsant pills. A report in the New England
first time you get chicken pox, blisters form overJournal of Medicine offers a more effective
most of your body. After a week, your immunitytreatment for post-herpetic neuralgia: 60 mg of
drives the chicken pox virus from yourmethyl prednisone, injected directly into the spinal
bloodstream, but it remains in your nerve rootsfluid, once a week for four weeks, lessens and
for the rest of your life. One of every in sixeven cures the pain.For journal references on this
people who get chicken pox will have the virusarticle see
escape from nerves many years later to causeGabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for
painful grouped blisters on the skin over the25 years and practicing physician for more than
infected nerve on one side of the body.If you40 years; he is board certified in four specialties,
wait for characteristic blisters to form, it may beincluding sports medicine.