Have you experienced pain or tingling in your hands or feet? Those are signs of possible neuropathy, “a general term for ...

Each type of neuralgia has a specific pattern of symptoms, which may involve characteristic timing, duration ... and pain. Additionally, post-infectious conditions, such as shingles or ...

Treatment aims to reduce the severity and duration ... severe nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia. It’s oftentimes debilitating with little effective treatment. Shingles on the face is ...

Caused by the same virus behind chickenpox, shingles is a painful nerve root infection resulting in a skin rash. What does the shingles rash looks like? Who’s at risk? And who needs the shingles ...

A friend asked for a column on shingles. Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox, and ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Shingles under the breast occurs when the virus that causes shingles, known as the ...

This long-term nerve pain occurs where the shingles rash appeared and can last for months or even years after the rash fades. Older adults are more likely to develop postherpetic neuralgia and ...

Just as any shingles infection can cause post-herpetic neuralgia (excruciating pain that lingers for months or years after the rash clears), ocular shingles can also cause chronic pain and ...

Shingles affects about one-third of people who’ve had chickenpox, leading to burning, tingling, and shooting nerve pain. The symptoms can last for 3 to 5 weeks. Some people also get postherpetic ...