Two medications for this condition are Zovirax ointment or oral Valtrex .
Yes it is normal because shingles follow a certain nerve pattern leaving numbness to the skin. Your doctor hopefully has given you medication to help get over the shingles faster. If not please see a skin specialist or your family doctor.
No, shingles is usually on the upper body along the nerves radiating out from the backbone.
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Yes. I have sacral nerve shingles and it's like I have a UTI.
Shingles can cause Bell's Palsy indirectly. The herpes zoster virus sometimes breaks out into shingles. The shingles may cause blistering in the area of the Facial Nerve (Cranial VII nerve) which controls the muscles on one side of the face or the other. This inflammation, not the shingles, is what causes Bell's Palsy. When shingles and Bell's Palsy are interrelated like this, it is called Ramsey-Hunt Syndrome.
Anywhere! Shingles follow the path of a nerve.
Shingles can break out along the pathway of any nerve. Anyone who had chicken pox as a child has the virus in their bodies. Later, as an adult, the virus can become active, causing a breakout along a nerve or nerves. Shingles is extremely painful to endure.
can you numb a nerve on your head to stop getting headach from shingels
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