Kick the Shingles Can with a Pain Patch.2
Article by Groshan Fabiola
Pain is something that nobody enjoys. Such times when our bodies are afflicted with pain make us grateful for the days when we could move about more freely. In our youth many of us experienced skin pain through the common chickenpox virus, but as the years go by we forget this pain, and our bodies forget as well. But later in life, when age and use have worn away the shiny gleam of our skin, we sometimes rediscover pains from our youth. Shingles is in fact the same virus (varicella-zoster) that we got in our childhood in the form of chicken pox. Like a long-lost “hide and go seek” player of forty or fifty years ago, this virus seems to wake up from its hiding place in our nerve tissue.
The problem for many who experience shingles is the overpowering pain toll it takes on the body. Where in the past we experienced a few days of fever, some ice cream and a few days off school, the experience of shingles is much more intense. Shingles pain isn’t mild, but often very severe, even incapacitating. It begins as a rash, a landmark that represents the nerve bed where the virus is growing. Blisters and whole body pain radiate out, burning and halting movement and day-to-day life. Living with the virus becomes a life of managing shingles pain. Almost every action and decision is filtered through a processor to answer the question of whether it will cause more pain.
Although there is no cure for this virus at this time, researchers and scientists continue to push the boundaries of medicine and technology to find a way to eliminate the zoster virus from the list of human afflictions. Luckily, a new treatment is available in the form of a pain patch. Often doctors prescribe heavy drugs to help deal with the pain, not targeting the specific area infected with the virus. This new patch, administered by a doctor during a one-hour treatment, is placed directly on the infected rash area. The medicine enters through the skin and numbs the pain, and it works for months, not hours. So the good news is that there is hope for freedom from pain as medical professionals move toward finding a cure.
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