Huge Neuralgia up my right arm and onto my shoulder since last Tuesday! I was pretty convinced this would turn into shingles and went to the Doc on Thursday at which point I had some blotches but no blisters. Friday the first blotches turned into blisters and started multiplying. They follow a nerve path so thumb then several largish clusters up my arm with the bulk on my upper arm. A couple of family members and various friends have had this and it is pretty variable but the pain is really severe late at night! I have just finished a 5 day course of Antivirals (Aciclovir) but am NOT going to start the Amitriptyline given me for the neuralgia, I understand that they and a couple of other antidepressants are prescribed for this kind of pain but I don't want to start them!
Anyone have any experience of this and a good way of rebuilding my immune system as I recover?
Normal opiate and NSAID formulations are pretty ineffective and in any case I'm already taking them for my hip.
I am using a natural herbal formulation when the pain is at its worst which is thankfully mostly at night when I don't need the use of my brain!!
As yet the blisters are not into leak/scab phase and I'm ready to deal with that as it happens
Oh and. . . .woe is me!!
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