I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my face ...

Many of us think of chickenpox as a childhood illness, a harmless rite of passage that fades into memory once the itchy blisters heal. However, what most people don’t realize is that the virus behind ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small ...

While symptoms go away after three to five weeks, pain can sometimes return in the form of postherpetic neuralgia, he said. This long-term nerve pain occurs where the shingles rash appeared and ...

The virus lies dormant in your body for years after ... severe nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia. It’s oftentimes debilitating with little effective treatment. Shingles on the face ...

People aged 50 and over and those who are immunocompromised are more at risk of getting shingles, as well as developing a ...

After an individual recovers from chickenpox (which they usually caught as a child), the varicella-zoster virus which causes chickenpox continues to live in some of their nerve cells ... place for ...