Shingles Nerve Pain WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Shingles Nerve Pain
After having chicken pox, the virus becomes dormant in the spinal cord (specifically, in the dorsal root ganglia). Reactivation of the virus causes shingles, in which the virus spreads through to the nerve distribution of the skin called dermatomes. Dermatomes describe the location where pain and blisters appear on the skin. Even if the blisters are already healed, nerve pain may last for months or even years. This condition is called postherpetic neuralgia.
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 23, 2009
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- Contributor: Aimee Abellaneda
- Reviewer: Elisa Carter
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Nerve pain and shingles, Shingles neuralgia, Shingles neuropathic pain, Herpes Zoster neuropathic pain
- Last update: Oct. 23, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
