Starting antiviral therapy immediately prevents the chance of developing severe nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia. It’s oftentimes debilitating with little effective treatment.

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness, a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy blisters heal. However, what most people don’t realize is that the virus behind ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small ...

The NHS has compiled a list of the 20 most painful health conditions you can get, with heart attacks, broken bones and slipped discs making the list ...

and doctors who specialize in treating chronic pain. It will depend in part on your symptoms and complications of the ...

Shingles is a funny-sounding name for a seriously painful disease. How painful? That’s hard to put into words. Printable ones ...

It can also reduce your risk of severe infection and complications ... get postherpetic neuralgia, which is pain that continues after recovery from the shingles rash. The older you are, the ...

As you say, not all trials found a benefit, but the largest trial found that intrathecal injections — which are similar to ...

I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots about five years ago and take hydroxyurea for polycythemia vera (PV).