I had shingles 2.5 years ago. I didn't recognise it for what is was (I was 28 for God's sake) and it wasn't treated. It scarred one of my thoracic (ribcage) nerves.
Now I get intense itching and pain. It doesn't come all the time, maybe one every couple of months, and not always badly, but I have it so badly at the minute I could SCREAM.
It feels like a knife has been wedged under the skin of my back, tipped with itching powder. The skin is so hypersensitive that someone brushed bast me yesterday in a shop and I screamed. Pain killers don't work, I can't take anything codeine based, I'm already on antidepressants
Does anyone think it's worth asking for a referral to a pain clinic?
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Post herpetci neuralgia (nerve scarring) is driving me absolutely MENTAL
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colditz · 25/06/2011 11:09
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