Relieving the Pain of Shingles I have suffered from the after-effects of shingles for four years. I'm seeking help from anyone who had or was in the same predicament, and found some relief to ease the pain.
Shingles are painful lesions that are caused the chicken pox virus.
If you had chicken pox as a child, the virus did not leave your body when you were over the disease. Rather, it lives, in a dormant phase in your spinal cord. On occasion the virus will reactivate. It will not cause the overall outbreak of chicken pox. Instead, it will travel down the spinal nerve from one segment of the spinal cord and cause the painful lesions in a stripe that wraps around one half of the body.