Shingles

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Been there.

Entire torso from front middle to back on left side, my doc said it was the worse she had seen.

What helps.....STRONG opioids....
Also ask your doc about Elavil for nerve pain after the attack...it is used off label for post-shingle neuropathy.
Might even help during attack.

Strangely what else helped was I used snug wraps around my torso at bed time, it really helped to have the areas bandaged and bound.
Exposure to air and moving around, or clothes brushing against the skin, made the blisters hurt more.A corset would have been perfect at the time.
About 10 days of misery and uncomfortable sleep....if you have someone around who can kind of "take over" while you are sleeping so you can be more relaxed, it is a big help.

If I lived in a state where pot was legal I would have used it.

Never had headache chills nausea tho...it just started with a sharp increasingly painful stabbing pain at my waist and then blisters started developing over a few days, so it was advanced by the time I saw a doc and too late to take a medicine they can give you at first outbreak, which is horrendously expensive and may or may not help.
Try to get a lot of water in you..it can be dehydrating.

You have my deepest sympathy...I would not wish what I had on my worst enemy.

Ok..maybe Cheney.....