There are many of these medications that might help ease the pain that lingers after your skin has healed such as amitriptyline desipramine norpramin and.
Tablets for shingles pain.
It is also used to promote wound healing and may aid in the treatment of allergy diarrhea indigestion psoriasis shingles and sore throat.
Food and drug administration has approved three antiviral drugs for reducing the intensity and frequency of pain associated with shingles.
If your shingles pain lasts eight to 12 weeks after the rash goes away you re part of an unfortunate minority says pain researcher andrew s c.
Two crushed aspirin tablets dissolved in 30 ml of chloroform or diethyl ether applied two or three times a day may help the burning and stinging pain.
This includes acyclovir famciclovir and.
These may also help you stave off postherpetic neuralgia which is a burning pain that some people get after the rash and blisters of shingles go away.
In alternative medicine papain is touted as a natural pain reliever.
Rice md of imperial college london.