Food and drug administration has approved three antiviral drugs for reducing the intensity and frequency of pain associated with shingles.
Tablets for shingles pain.
Shingles lesions cause pain that usually goes away within a month.
These may also help you stave off postherpetic neuralgia which is a burning pain that some people get after the rash and blisters of shingles go away.
Rice md of imperial college london.
It is also used to promote wound healing and may aid in the treatment of allergy diarrhea indigestion psoriasis shingles and sore throat.
There are many of these medications that might help ease the pain that lingers after your skin has healed such as amitriptyline desipramine norpramin and.
If your shingles pain lasts eight to 12 weeks after the rash goes away you re part of an unfortunate minority says pain researcher andrew s c.
In alternative medicine papain is touted as a natural pain reliever.
Skin breakdown is a potential side effect.