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Do hope you are doing better. Shingles are horrible I had them six years ago. Trigeminal nerve on the right side of my face. They took forever to go away. I. Thankful I didn’t go blind since they were all ove4 my right eye, nose forehead and head to the crown. I wasn’t left with pain I am left with severe itch, nose eye forehead and head. I’ve seen so many specialist to help with the itch and there nothing they can do or give me. So I suffer extremely at times with digging and digging and of course it doesn’t help. I do pray you are feeling better and you have no after effects
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I had postherpetic nerve pain and finally had it treated with radio frequency ablation, and that gave great relief
This is exactly what I'm suffering: I had shingles in the same location: right side of my face, affecting mucus membranes. My eye especially swelled shut; the infection cleared up in my eye, and even though supposedly diagnosed early, and put on antiviral and gabapentin, I am now, post 'physical' side-effects, and far less pain, left with crawling-itchy skin that I literally want to rip off my face. NOTHING is alleviating it. They put me back on anti-viral & gabapentin. I coat my face with Aspercreme & Lidocaine gel, and nothing relieves this wretched sensation. The pain was less debilitating. Any suggestions, since, I just now noted how long ago your post, from 2018. I probably need to write this as an opener, and not under comment/reply to someone who, ideally, is long since healed.
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@cdcc Have you tried all the itch creams like calamine lotion and others?