Shingles with a rash usually clears up within two to six weeks.
Postherpetic neuralgia symptoms without rash.
Flu like symptoms patients will often develop flu like symptoms just before the skin lesions appear.
The signs and symptoms of postherpetic neuralgia are generally limited to the area of your skin where the shingles outbreak first occurred most commonly in a band around your trunk usually on one side of your body.
This is called postherpetic neuralgia phn a form of neuropathic pain that can last for months or years even after the virus is no longer active.
In a few cases the pain can remain.
Postherpetic neuralgia can make people feel.
Common signs and symptoms of postherpetic neuralgia include.
If you have shingles without a rash your symptoms should clear up in a similar amount of time.
These symptoms can last as long as 7 10 days.
Postherpetic neuralgia following shingles some people continue to experience nerve pain and intense itching in the area where the rash was.
Severe pain that continues for more than one to three months in the same place that the shingles occurred even after the rash goes away.
This can include body or muscle aches headaches mild fever a general feeling of illness or poor appetite.