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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I imagine you’ve tried ice cubes, on the shingles?
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oH, yeah. Ice cubes, ice packs. Warm packs. Capsaicin. You-name-it. Lidoderm patches (Pro Tip: Make sure you either use these BEFORE or well after the scabs have formed and fallen off. Do not be impatient and apply one whilst scabs are still formed ON the blisters, sports fans!)
It's hard to know really what to do with them. They are...numb, and then not. Numb, and the outer skin remains numb, but touch that numb outer skin and in 5-10 seconds, a nuclear heat bloom explodes under the skin where you touched. Or, hey! Numb
this five seconds but then not
remotely numb the next!
Do nothing, mind your own business and then you get stabbed in the side with a Jedi light saber. Or just...well,
breathe. Allow your clothes to touch the skin, or....take your pick.
It's a poser.
I'm hoping that this is the last furlong. That...it just seems worse now due to having to cut back on the Gaba, which provided so much of the nerve pain relief and that because it's now dragging into its fifth week. That's gotta be part of it, amirite?
Hitch