Can You Get Shingles Pain When You Move

[gordiescotland1]

Hi there I have left sided chest pain stabbing pain when I move and when I am sitting I had shingles a week ago and finished the course of antivirals but i am wondering if you can shingle pain when you move It is sore to touch all round my chest area so I am relieved that is the case not worried about anything lung or cardiac related. That is always a fear for me. But I thought by getting anti-virals early I would avoid the pain.

[Sqad]

Yes you can and it is very common.
It can be, rarely, very debilitating....Google post her peptic neuralgia

[Sqad]

" post herpetic neuralgia"

[Baldric]

.....and too much time spent reading Medical pages on the www.

[Sqad]

I agree with Baldric....AB is too accessible.

[berniecuddles]

my mum had shingles a year ago she still is in pain shes 82

[boxtops]

Gordie, you asked about this pain only yesterday on another thread - you were reassured that post-shingles pains are not uncommon. Please stop worrying about it, it's normal.

[andres]

I had shingles many years at the age of 14.For years afterwards I used to occasionally experience sharp stabbing pains in my shoulder and chest where the shingles rash had been. I seem to remember it taking much more than a week before I recovered from the initial attack of shingles.I don't think a week is long enough .

[Sqad]

boxy

//Gordie, you asked about this pain only yesterday on another thread - you were reassured that post-shingles pains are not uncommon. ///

Clearly he wasn't.

[boxtops]

This was yesterday's thread http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Question1302253.html

[andres]

If you are so worried ,why don't you go back to your doctor? You are obviously not getting much reassurance from our answers on here.

[Baldric]

While you're here gordie, did you ever get your Diabetic problems sorted,
I seem to remember you were quite concerned about them when you were here as gordie1 ?

[whistonian]

Hi Gordie, I have been suffering with head shingles which covers the whole scalp for nearly 3 months, at times it's very painful to just touch my hair gently. I take paracetamols 3 times a day.Some days when the pain is really bad, usually first thing in the morning, I take a 300mg Gabapentin which my wife takes for her Phantom pain which helps.
I will be 79 in April so I'm hoping I can have the new injection for Shingles. At the moment it is only available if you are aged 70 or 79.
My doctor didn't prescribe me any anti-virals as I was feeling very well other than the Shingles as he said they would probably make me feel badly.