How do I cure my shingles?
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Usually put you on zovirax or similar antiviral drug.  It may shorten course of shingles a little, but not much in my experience.  High dose prednisone (cortisone) by mouth for a couple of weeks may help.  And you should be given narcotic pain medicine as needed.  Shingles is a reappearance of the chicken pox virus, which has been lying dormant at your nerve roots since you first had it as a kid. It breaks out along the path of a spinal nerve, curving around your body on one side from the side of your spine.  Generally, after a painful period, it will go away.  Keep it clean, so you don't get those sores secondarily infected with bacteria.  I mean take some showers, keep clean.  Don't go fiddling with the sores with dirty hands.  You'll live.
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If your shingles aren't severe you could, but shingles can be very devastating and debilitating at times.  I would think you would want to get them cleared up prior to your surgery....just in case.  Allergic reactions of any kind would certainly be a consideration not to mention just your discomfort level of one situation and adding to the the discomfort.
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Office of Disease Prevention\n\nSHINGLES (herpes zoster)\n \n\n\n(This material is provided for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical care. Direct specific questions to your medical provider.)\n\nWhat is shingles?\nShingles is a localized infection due to the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. It occurs only in people who have had chickenpox in the past and represents a reactivation of the dormant varicella virus. Why the virus reactivates in some individuals and not in others is unknown.\n\nWho gets shingles?\nThe disease is primarily seen in the elderly, but occasionally occurs in younger individuals. It affects both sexes and all races with equal frequency and occurs sporadically throughout the year.\n\nHow is shingles spread?\nA person must have already had chickenpox in the past to develop shingles. Contact with an infected individual does not cause another person's dormant virus to reactivate. However, the virus from a shingles patient may cause chickenpox in someone who has not had it before.\n\nWhat are the symptoms of shingles?\nThe first sign is often a tingling feeling on the skin, itchiness or a stabbing pain. After several days, a rash appears beginning as a band or patch of raised dots on the side of the trunk or face. It then develops into small, fluid-filled blisters which begin to dry out and crust over within a few days. When the rash is at its peak, symptoms can range from mild itching to extreme and intense pain. The rash and pain usually disappear within three to five weeks.\n\nHow soon after infection do symptoms appear?\nThe virus lies dormant in someone who has had chickenpox in the past. It can reactivate many years later.\n\nWhen and for how long is a person able to spread shingles?\nA person exposed to a patient with shingles will not get shingles but may get chickenpox. The virus is present at the site of the rash and is contagious for a week after the appearance of lesions (blisters).\n\nWhat are the complications associated with shingles?\nShingles is not usually dangerous to healthy individuals although it can cause great misery during an attack. Anyone with shingles on the upper half of their face, no matter how mild, should seek medical care at once. There is some danger that the virus could cause damage to the eye resulting in blindness. Complications are rare but may include partial facial paralysis (usually temporary), ear damage or encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).\n\nWhat is the treatment for shingles?\nMost cases of shingles resolve on their own without specific treatment. Two medications available for use by physicians in treating immunocompromised patients are vidarabine and acyclovir.\n\nWhat can be done to prevent the spread of shingles?\nChickenpox must be prevented in order to prevent shingles. A live attenuated viral vaccine against chickenpox was licensed in the U.S. in 1995 and is very effective (95% efficacy).\n\n \nChickenpox is an infection with a blistering rash, which is caused by the Varicella virus. This virus also causes shingles. \n\nCourse and Symptoms\nThe incubation period, the length of time from exposure to the virus to developing the condition, is two to three weeks. If someone in the house has chickenpox, the likelihood of someone else in the house catching it, who has not already had it, is as much as 90% ie 9 out of 10. \n\nChickenpox usually affects children and starts with a slightly raised temperature, and feeling under the weather, along with the development of red spots, mainly on the body and face. \n\nThe spots appear over a few days and progress from being red spots to forming blisters, which eventually burst, dry, and crust, ultimately to heal. The spots are very itchy, and if the child scratches and infects them they will leave scars. \n\nBy the time the spots have stopped forming and are dried over and the temperature has fallen back to normal, the child is no longer infectious. Usually
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This is the truth.  If you had chicken pox....after the rash heals, the varicella virus lays dormant in your body.  It will be there the rest of your life.  IF you get shingles, it is from the dormant virus--you didn't "catch" it from anyone.  And you are ONLY contagious to a person who has NEVER had chicken pox, which means you could give them chicken pox.....NOT shingles.  So, yes...it's true... You cannot get SHINGLES if you never had chicken pox.....but you can still get chicken pox at anytime in your life if you come in contact with it or shingles. \n\nOK?
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Shingles is a painful blistering rash caused by reactivation of varicella, the chickenpox virus. It is correctly known as herpes zoster. \n\nChicken Pox is the primary infection with the virus, Herpes zoster, also called ‘varicella-zoster’. During this widespread infection, which usually occurs in childhood, virus is seeded to nerve cells in the spinal cord, usually of nerves that supply sensation to the skin. \n\nThe virus remains in a resting phase in these nerve cells for years before it is reactivated and grows down the nerves to the skin to produce shingles (zoster). This can occur in childhood but is much more common in adults, especially the elderly. \n\nThe first sign of shingles is usually pain, which may be severe, in the areas of one or more sensory nerves, often where they emerge from the spine. The pain may be just in one spot or it may spread out. The patient usually feels quite unwell with fever and headache. The lymph nodes draining the affected area are often enlarged and tender. \n\nWithin one to three days of the onset of pain, a blistering rash appears in the painful area of skin. Sometimes, especially in children, shingles is painless. \n\nIt starts as a crop of closely-grouped red bumps in a continuous band on the area of skin supplied by one, occasionally two, and rarely more neighbouring spinal nerves. New lesions continue to appear for several days, each blistering or becoming pustular then crusting over. Shingles occasionally causes blisters inside the mouth or ears, and can also affect the genital area. \n\nThe pain and general symptoms subside gradually as the eruption disappears. In uncomplicated cases recovery is complete in 2-3 weeks in children and young adults, and 3 to 4 weeks in older patients. \n\nOccasionally pain is not followed by the eruption - shingles "sine eruptione". \n\nThe chest (thoracic), neck (cervical), forehead (ophthalmic) and lumbar/sacral sensory nerve supply regions are most commonly affected at all ages but the frequency of ophthalmic shingles increases with age. Rarely the eruption may affect both sides of the body. \n\nIn elderly and undernourished patients the blisters are deeper. Healing may take many weeks and be followed by scarring. Muscle weakness arises in about one in twenty patients because the muscle nerves are affected as well as the sensory nerves. Facial nerve palsy is the most common result. There is a 50% chance of complete recovery and in time some improvement can be expected in nearly all cases.
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stand with your back against the wall, lift your toes up so that you are standing on your heels. hold for 2-3 seconds and repeat. Do this for 3-5 sets of 12 -15 reps. This is not an immediate cure, but will build the muscles in the front part of the shin and will reduce shin splints over time. Also remember to stretch thoroughly
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Rest. Sometimes taking it easy a day or two can help with recovery.\n\nApply ice if it gets very painful. This helps keep any inflamation down.\n \nPerform rehabilitation exercises (low-impact) regularly. Swimming and cycling are excellent activities for an individual with shin splints. Try to avoid excessive impact while recovering.\n\nWear shock absorbing insoles in shoes. This can prove helpful when getting back to a running routine if the shin splints still hurt.\n\nI know what you're going through...shin splints are a pain. x.x Hope these help.
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Shingles is a localized infection due to the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. It occurs only in people who have had chickenpox in the past and represents a reactivation of the dormant varicella virus. Why the virus reactivates in some individuals and not in others is unknown.A person must have already had chickenpox in the past to develop shingles. Contact with an infected individual does not cause another person's dormant virus to reactivate. However, the virus from a shingles patient may cause chickenpox in someone who has not had it before.Shingles is not usually dangerous to healthy individuals although it can cause great misery during an attack. Anyone with shingles on the upper half of their face, no matter how mild, should seek medical care at once. There is some danger that the virus could cause damage to the eye resulting in blindness. Complications are rare but may include partial facial paralysis (usually temporary), ear damage or encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).\nChickenpox must be prevented in order to prevent shingles. A live attenuated viral vaccine against chickenpox was licensed in the U.S. in 1995 and is very effective (95% efficacy).
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There is an exercize that you can do that may help. You need a towel and a chair. Sit in the chair, spread the towel out on the floor in front of you. Place your feet so that your heals are on the floor and your toes are on the towel. Use your toes to pull the towel so that it scrunches up under our arches.\nRepeat.\n\nThat may help work the muscles on the front of your shin.\n\nI've read that there are 3 main causes of shin splints.\nStress fracture of the tibia from overuse, the tibialis anterior pulling away from the bone, and soreness from exercize. This exercize will help if it's just soreness due to overwork, weakness, etc.\n\nThere are cases where the muscle becomes over developed and is constricted by the muscle sheath. That case requires surgery to correct. American Olympian Mary Decker had that surgery.
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Try the link below. It has some answers for you.\nhttp://www.medinfo.co.uk/conditions/shingles.html
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Eat your breakfast first, then go to Home Depot and get some shingles.\n\nHey, you can always give him/her your room.
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You need to stretch your calf muscles.  One way to relieve the shin splints is to crouch down and grab your knees and pull them into your chest while being on your feet.  I have had shin splints and this helped remedy the problem.
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Capsaicin cream or ointment. Capsaicin is the chemical in red pepper responsible for heat \nCayenne or red pepper is not the only "herbal" remedy which appears to be somewhat effective. The homeopathic remedies developed for Shingles are numerous. For example, Arsenicum album can be taken if the pain of the blisters seems to be relieved by heat and if the pain is worse at night. Iris versicolor is often helpful with shingles infection that is accompanied by gastro-intestinal problems and bumps which appear on the abdomen. If the patient is restless and the rash is itchy rather than burns, Rhus Toxicodendron can be taken in a low potency. All three of these remedies, though many claim to have found them helpful, have never been clinically tested. These remedies are probably best used in conjunction with other types of treatment\n\n\nA tea or hot compress can be made from Saint Johns Wort and Lavender, both of which are thought to be good restoratives for the nervous system . The reason that Saint Johns Wort is thought to help is that it contains compounds that act as manomire-oxidase enzyme inhibitors. A warm lotion made from the flowers and leaves may also relieve the burning of the Shingles blisters
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put a towel on the floor and scrunch it up with your toes.  Do this over and over again, and it will help take away the shin splints.
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For two years I had skin outbreaks on my upper back, both upper arms and upper chest and on the left side of my face. They were insanely itchy and ranged in size from a small spot to the size of a bread and butter plate. For two yrs this was diagnosed as shingles even though all the creams medications and treatments were not working. Ive recently now been diagnosed with Lupus. This skin irritation is Discoid Lupus. There is no cure and its horrible. Sometimes i will not go outside for weeks because the outbreaks look like some dreaded catchy disease and I can imagine what people would think. There could be many things this could be. Plz go see your doctor. Don't leave it n accept one opinion. It could be something quite serious and the earlier its diagnosed the quicker you can get the relevant treatment. Good Luck. Hope its just a minor little problem.
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From the patchwork pattern of scars it leaves behind and during an outbreak.  They look like roofing shingles laid end-to-end.  Shingles are related to Chicken Pox, which is also a form of the herpes virus... don't freak out, not THAT herpes.\nIt's the same as a cold sore.\nStress is primarily the main cause for outbreaks.  It is nerve pathways beneath the skin that become irritated and inflamed that the path follows.\nGet some Balsam of Myrrh and dab it onto the areas just before and during an outbreak... you'll feel the ache  a day or two "just before".  That lessens the duration of the outbreak and helps ease the discomfort.
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I'm a physician assistant and have an answer for you.\nShingles is a virus that is also a part of the chicken pox virus. When you are young you get chicken pox, when you are old you get shingles from the same virus. Unfortunately, your doctor is right, it can't be cured. It comes about in times of stress and is pretty painful. There is a medication called Acyclovir that can prevent the outbreaks before they get bad. Usually you begin taking the mediation when you feel an episode come on (tingling sensation or mild pain where the outbreak is going to occur) and it prevents the outbreak from progressing to a painful situation. If i were you, i would ask your doctor or Physician Assistant about Acyclovir. We prescribe it frequently for people with exactly the same problem. hope that helped!