If needed, your healthcare provider can prescribe stronger pain relief medications. After about 7 to 10 days, your shingles blisters may start to ooze fluid. After that, they begin to dry up and ...

Waiting too long to treat shingles puts you at risk of developing issues such as post-herpetic neuralgia, or PHN. PHN causes you to have a burning or throbbing pain for months or even years after ...

Shingles is caused by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, which remains dormant after an individual ... and ...

It's important to get treatment as quickly as possible because, "people with shingles can develop long-term pain or itch after the shingles resolves if the virus does too much damage," Kim says.

I had to be careful what I wore, and yes, it took quite a bit of management ... neuralgia - pain that can last for years. "Post-herpetic neuralgia is the pain that you get after shingles.