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  1. Ramsay Hunt syndrome - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

    Dec 22, 2025 · It causes a painful rash called shingles. The rash may be mostly around the ear or may affect the ear, face and mouth. This syndrome may cause changes to hearing, taste and balance. It …

  2. Ramsay Hunt syndrome - Diagnosis & treatment - Mayo Clinic

    Dec 22, 2025 · Ramsay Hunt syndrome is often identified by a painful rash with fluid-filled blisters on, in or around one ear. Other symptoms may include ear pain, hearing changes, a feeling of spinning or …

  3. Shingles - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

    Aug 20, 2022 · Shingles is characterized by pain or a tingling sensation in a limited area on one side of the face or torso, followed by a red rash with small, fluid-filled blisters.

  4. Postherpetic neuralgia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    Feb 10, 2023 · Postherpetic neuralgia happens if nerve fibers get damaged during an outbreak of shingles. Damaged fibers can't send messages from the skin to the brain as they usually do.

  5. Effectively- post-neuropathy pain after shingles on your head

    Sep 4, 2024 · Hi all, I'm curious if anyone has found effective ways to deal with post-neuropathy pain after shingles on their head. If you've successfully managed it, I'd really appreciate any tips or …

  6. Side Effects of Shingles Vaccine - Mayo Clinic Connect

    Sep 20, 2018 · I got the flu shot and the new shingles vaccination 3 days ago. Today I started feeling sick to my stomach. I've never had a reaction to the flu shot and was wondering if anyone else felt …

  7. Valacyclovir (oral route) - Side effects & dosage - Mayo Clinic

    Dec 1, 2025 · Valacyclovir is used to treat cold sores (herpes labialis), shingles (herpes zoster), and genital herpes. It is also used to control genital herpes outbreak in patients with human …

  8. Acyclovir (oral route, intravenous route) - Side effects & dosage

    Dec 1, 2025 · Acyclovir is used to treat shingles (herpes zoster), genital herpes, and chickenpox. Although acyclovir will not cure shingles or genital herpes, it does help relieve the pain and …

  9. Ugh, just been diagnosed with shingles, vaccine in one year?

    Feb 6, 2025 · After two days of intense stabbing pain behind my right ear and a slight rash on the side of neck, I contacted my rheumatologist to see if I was developing some weird variant of GCA.

  10. Had Shingles shot and now have PMR - Mayo Clinic Connect

    Apr 1, 2019 · Curious about the timing of my contracting a virus that was successfully targeted by an anti-shingles medication, just three weeks after receiving the Shingrix vaccine, I contacted my family …