Treatment options are limited for patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), a chronic pain disorder caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus. Topical application of capsaicin ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 years old and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots ...

China: A recent study published in the Archives of Dermatological Research highlights the enhanced effectiveness of combining ...

Although systematic reviews have outlined the current treatment options for neuropathic ... spinal cord injury pain, post-herpetic neuralgia, and multiple sclerosis. Data for central neuropathic ...

I read your recent column on shingles. I am 66 years old and in fairly good health. I had both Shingrix shots about five years ago. I take hydroxyurea for polycythemia vera (PV). Around Aug. 1, I ...

I agree that your PV and its treatment with hydroxyurea may have predisposed you to the complication of shingles that you had ...

In later stages of treatment, corticosteroids are administered ... This formulation aims to relieve pain associated with post-herpetic neuralgia, a neuropathic condition that arises from nerve ...

Other experts, however, recommend topical capsicum for the short-term treatment of low back ... lidocaine patches for ...

Longer-term complications include visual disturbances and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN ... unsatisfactory (<50% of patients gain 50% relief of pain). With the older adult population steadily ...

called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). You are quite right that the pain can be extraordinarily severe. I am glad you wrote because steroid injections are not a treatment that I have written about ...