Shingles without the rash | Shingles | Forums - Patient
Jan 4, 2014 · You can still have a "negative " result and have shingles as the timing of the test is wrong or other factors. If it is positive, you definitely have shingles. Usually, if you have shingles, the pain which is lancinating, burning, electric, is constant. The degree of pain can fluctuate, due to stimuli, but the pain is always there.
Is this shingles without a rash? Worried | Shingles | Forums - Patient
Dec 16, 2017 · You certainly can have Shingles without the rash. It is called Zoster Sine Herpete. Many Physicians are abysmally ignorant about the disease, the diagnosis, the accompanying symptoms,the treatment, and the management. Shingles can be triggered by an injury, trauma, or surgery to an area on the body, as well as stress.
Shingles: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment - Patient
Jan 22, 2024 · Rash. The shingles rash typically appears 2-3 days after the pain begins. Red blotches and quickly change into itchy fluid-filled blisters. The rash looks like chickenpox but only appears on the band of skin supplied by the affected nerve. New blisters may appear for …
34 with mild Shingles, no pain, weird? | Shingles | Forums - Patient
Sep 11, 2014 · I still once or twice a year, get shingles. I also get other debilitating symptoms, before and after. I first get mouth cold sores. I then either feel sick like a virus or flu, or get the sensation in my normal spot of itching and potential break out. If I don't get sick before, I get sick after,with the viral or flu like symptoms.
Shingles myths you should stop believing - Patient
Sep 5, 2019 · Myth: Only elderly people get shingles. You can get shingles at any age. It's most common in people over the age of 50, possibly because the immune system becomes less efficient as you age, making the varicella-zoster virus more prone to reactivation. But anyone who has had chickenpox can get shingles - even children.
Rash still spreading, on anti viral for 5 days....Is this normal? - Patient
Mar 26, 2017 · Normally, antivirals are best effective when it's use within 48-72 hours once the you see the first initial breakout (The day when you see the first shingles rash). However, it doesn't mean you can't take the antivirals if it's past that period because sometimes it will help. Also, it also depends if that specific antivirals will work for you.
Sharing my experience - recurring shingles | Shingles | Forums
Oct 27, 2008 · You need to be on a high lysine diet, as this fights against outbreaks, which is more apples pears green vegetables, milk, fish, chicken. Google shingles diet and you should find a diet list. This diet as Controle my 2-3 a year outbreak for 10 years to 1 per year without medication that did not work for me. Cosmogirl
Postherpetic Neuralgia | Symptoms and Treatment - Patient
Oct 15, 2020 · Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a nerve pain (neuralgia) that persists after a shingles rash has cleared. If your pain from shingles goes but then returns at a later date, this too is called PHN. Shingles is an infection of a nerve and causes a typical rash. It is caused by the chickenpox (varicella-zoster) virus. About 1 in 5 people have ...
Exhausted post shingles | Shingles | Forums - Patient
Mar 12, 2015 · Often, with shingles, you can have exhaustion, fatigue, malaise, irritability etc anytime 2 weeks before, during, and usually up to 2 weeks after the rash has cleared. It is important to remember that you are infected with the Herpes Varicella virus, that you had a viral infection that for some is excruciating, and is a serious infection.
Shingles | Infections | Forums - Patient
Shingles without the rash. By danielle999 Last reply 9 months ago. 281. Itchy Skin eruptions / Hives after ...