For most people, the symptoms of shingles ... along pathways to your skin. A painful, blistering rash can erupt. That’s shingles. In some cases, shingles can damage your nerves so that they ...

Herpes zoster oticus (HZ oticus) is a type of shingles which is restricted to the area in and around the ear, and majorly affects the nerves supplying the ear. HZ oticus usually affects the ...

When Nancy Greeley was in her 50s, her sister, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Rochester, told her to get the shingles ... it travels along nerve pathways, typically creating ...

Postherpetic neuralgia is a painful complication of shingles that affects the nerves. It results in painful sensations that continue after the rash has healed. Postherpetic neuralgia is the most ...

From the moment you experience the first symptoms of shingles—a ... virus can lay dormant in nerve cells for decades. When it reactivates, it spreads down the nerve pathway where it causes ...

Symptoms of shingles, also known as herpes zoster, include burning or stabbing pain accompanied by a rash of blisters that typically follows a nerve pathway on the body or the face. Up to 50 ...

Shingles occurs when the varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox in children, lies dormant for decades in nerve cells and then starts multiplying again for reasons unknown. It commonly ...

Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster ... when triggered by stress or a weakened immune system, it travels along nerve pathways to the skin and usually affects only one side of the face.

Q: I’m a 78-year-old woman who developed shingles in December 2014. The rash settled in the nerves on my left side, from under the breast, to the waist and around the middle of my back.

Conducted in 95 medical centers in the USA, Canada, and New Zealand, ZEDS enrolled 527 participants from November 2017 to January 2023 who were randomized to receive, double-masked, either 1,000 ...