shingles

A young lady I provided direct support for took the acyclovir, which is an anti viral, and the cipro is an antibiotic, so it keeps down the chance of a secondary bacterial infection. She was only 26, had it on her hand and it was the second time she ever had it. They give Lortab due to not wanting people to take aspirin products while having a virus. When I took it for my foot I got to where I had hot flashes when it was wearing off. They used to prescribe a topical cream called Zostrix, which is made with the oil from peppers. I would ask your doctor about that. It is supposed to work by being a counter irritant, I think. I have not heard of doing that in a long time. I think the Aveeno soaks sound very soothing, though. Like Sid suggested.

I had them now for 16 days. it started as a really bad back pain on a friday night so i had to wait untill Tuesday to see my dr. she said that i had two red spots on my back. and that i had the shingles.She called me in some pills one was ,called acyclovir, ciprofloxacin, and a pain pills called lortab. I was taking one pill e very 4 hours of the lortab now i am taking 2 pills every 6 hours and i still get the pain. i also have numbness on my right side the dr told me that is part of the shingles. I hope they go away soon. the pain is really bad.

They will be gone in 4 or 5 days, I think. But even after they are gone visually, you feel feel bruised where they were. Mom's started on the side of the back, on the side and some under her bre*st. I will see if I can find the medicine she was taking. I don't know if I can. I am sorry, I wasn't able to find it. She was taking a red and white capsule which was causing halucinations and alot of movement with her limbs while sleeping so they put her on a smaller dosage which was a solid red capsule. One was 500mg and one was 300mg. She also was taking loratab which she was already prescribed. I was giving them to her every four hours, so she was taking 6 loratabs per 24 hours which she had never taken before, but she needed them at this time and the doctor okayed it with me.

thanks I will do that. I am in a lot of pain i am taking pain pills but they dont last to long.its been going on 16 days now. I have some rash on my lower back but i never got the blisters. I have been at the dr three times now all she said was keep taking the pain pills.

Here is a link to one of her discussions, and then if you go to it, there will be similar discussions along the right hand side that you can check out. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2616436.aspx

thank you for the link.