Anon, did you get your daughter to a doctor right away? There is medicine they can give her -- if she starts it very soon after the outbreak -- that will alleviate her symptoms somewhat. But it needs to be started quickly.
I had shingles several years ago. It was extraordinarily painful. Nerve pain is like no other kind of pain I've experienced, because it hurts even when you are not touching it or not doing anything with it. I remember that it hurt even if the breeze from the ceiling fan touched it, or a plain cotton sheet. And it's a stinging hurt, almost like a burning.
I'm so sorry your daughter has shingles. I'm glad she has you by her side to help her try and feel better. My shingles seemed to heal up in just a few weeks, though I remember feeling the small stabbing pains sometimes even after it was healed up on the surface.
Where is her outbreak? My husband had an outbreak once that was around his torso. Mine was around a thigh. The outbreaks tend to follow the path of a specific set of nerves in a diagonal and/or circular pattern.
Is there any more information we can find for you?
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Anon, did you get your daughter to a doctor right away? There is medicine they can give her -- if she starts it very soon after the outbreak -- that will alleviate her symptoms somewhat. But it needs to be started quickly.
I had shingles several years ago. It was extraordinarily painful. Nerve pain is like no other kind of pain I've experienced, because it hurts even when you are not touching it or not doing anything with it. I remember that it hurt even if the breeze from the ceiling fan touched it, or a plain cotton sheet. And it's a stinging hurt, almost like a burning.
I'm so sorry your daughter has shingles. I'm glad she has you by her side to help her try and feel better. My shingles seemed to heal up in just a few weeks, though I remember feeling the small stabbing pains sometimes even after it was healed up on the surface.
Where is her outbreak? My husband had an outbreak once that was around his torso. Mine was around a thigh. The outbreaks tend to follow the path of a specific set of nerves in a diagonal and/or circular pattern.
Is there any more information we can find for you?
June 5, 2009 - 8:34amThis Comment
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