However shingles can become more than a skin problem when it affects other systems of the body.
Steroids make shingles worse. Acyclovir with and without prednisone for the treatment of herpes zoster. Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso. The corticosteroid prednisone is no exception. Shingles occurs after the virus becomes active again in these nerves years later.
There are some treatments available for shingles and even vaccines to help prevent it but one thing you can do to alleviate some of the symptoms is to change your diet. A randomized placebo controlled trial. I not only felt worse but had new weird symptoms on it which had all disappeared after i stopped taking it. Whitley rj weiss h gnann jw jr tyring s mertz gj et al.
Shingles herpes zoster is a painful blistering skin rash due to the varicella zoster virus the virus that causes chickenpox. Prednisone has life saving anti inflammatory properties. When i felt worse on it the doctors felt that i had a hypersensitive reaction to it. Prednisone a corticosteroid is one of the primary drugs used in the management of shingles also known as herpes zoster.
I think its common knowledge that nsaids and steroids do not work for fm however i have heard from people on here that it did in fact make there fm worse. Most doctors will warn patients about weight gain body hair growth insomnia acne nausea headache and redistribution of fat to various parts of the body. When combined with antiviral treatment prednisone relieves pain and nerve damage and reduces one s chances of developing postherpetic neuralgia a condition in which pain lasts after the shingles rash has cleared up. Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash.
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox. Suzanne66 18 nov 2010. And antivirals did not cause an increase in adverse effects. But this miraculous drug is also known to have sinister side effects.
Shingles herpes zoster is a viral infection that causes an outbreak of a painful rash or blisters on the skin. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. The best way to help relieve shingles and help speed up the recovery process is to avoid these 6 foods.