I’m Mike username Bush6d. I had shingles in June and it’s now coming up on Thanksgiving. I have the post herpetic neuralgia from my backbone left around my side and front to my sternum. I’m prescribed Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen 5-325 TB and pregabalin 75 mg by pain management Doctor.
I hopefully am slowly getting better as the severe pain in my stomach is shifting towards my back. My big problem seems to be the lateral muscle on the left back. It cramps and locks but eases up with the drugs which I take twice a day. So I’m thinking it’s moving towards the back. However I still have the occasional lighting bolt along the side forward of the lat. the area in front below the ribcage left of the sternum seems to be the pain control area always on fire.
My big relief usually comes, a few hours after taking the pills and applying over the counter Biofreeze roll on external over the area especially in the cramped last and on the burn left of the sternum seems.
At night in bed sometimes I get back to sleep by rolling onto the cramp putting pressure on the area.
I’m 80 years old and have myasthenia gravis treated by generic Imuran and mestinon daily for 27 years now. I’m not going to kill myself as life is too much fun. But this pain definitely is putting a hitch in the action.
I would be grateful if anyone out there with this neuralgia has any suggestions to alleviate it.