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13. The worst pain I ever experienced in my life was post-herpetic neuralgia. Every time I tried to take

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 08:00 AM

Mar 2025

a step it was as if I'd been hit with a lightning bolt. I literally crawled through the house to make it to the car to go to the ER. I'm grateful to the neurologist I ended up seeing who prescribed gabapentin. For almost a year I was on the maximum dosage. Now I take 300 mg. a day to help with sleep and to keep just a little twinge of neuralgia in my left leg at bay. Shingles was a walk in the park compared to the neuralgia complication that ensued.

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Sad to see this, Harrison Ford Cancels Oscars Presenting Role After Shingles Diagnosis. [View all] elleng Mar 2025 OP

Shots enid602 Mar 2025 #1

They are not 100% effective, like most vaccines biophile Mar 2025 #3

I've had shingles - it's awful Mad_Dem_X Mar 2025 #2

Agree. Dixiegrrrl Mar 2025 #7

That's terrible. I am still suffering the effects of shingles four years on. LisaM Mar 2025 #4

Ouch! I'm glad he's getting treatment. nt Ilsa Mar 2025 #5

Have had all the shots, still have shingles unc70 Mar 2025 #6

I had it on my face/eye 6 years ago. LudwigPastorius Mar 2025 #8

I still have post herpetic nerve pain from having Shingles years ago. CTyankee Mar 2025 #9

OH GEE, Yank! SO LONG!!! elleng Mar 2025 #10

How effective would you say Gabepentin is for pain relief, CTyankee? True Dough Mar 2025 #11

I don't have the nerve pain. A twinge now and then maybe, but not the pain. CTyankee Mar 2025 #12

The worst pain I ever experienced in my life was post-herpetic neuralgia. Every time I tried to take Vinca Mar 2025 #13