The peel was becoming rattling tender along that side, but it was likely from my touching it, right?
We larn to the doctor, who does NOT mock me (much) for Googling inwards the middle of the night. She asks how long I've had this rash. WHAT??? iii tiny footling pinheads. Not fifty-fifty blistered yet.
Once again, I am rattling fortunate. It is rattling early on inwards the course of report of this outbreak, important that anti-viral medication volition assist shorten the duration as well as severity. I shudder to squall upward how bad it could bring been. She sends me on my means alongside a prescription for Valtrex and for 5% lidocaine patches alongside instructions to operate tylenol every bit needed. The patches are denied yesteryear my insurance, therefore the chemist suggests Aspercreme 4% patches. Later insurance allowed the 5%, as well as that 1% made a huge difference. Still, the Aspercreme patches were ameliorate than nothing.
When I got home, I posted on social media virtually it. My friends didn't allow me down. I'd already planned to larn Ravensara essential stone oil blended inwards Calophyllum from Nature's Gift, as well as Marge mentioned that it could live overnighted. I foolishly passed on that, as well as wound upward waiting a few days.
In the meantime I pose some lemon balm hydrosol inwards a spray bottle, as well as mixed St John's wort as well as Lemon Balm tincture inwards a dropper bottle. They were all rattling helpful. Sometimes only spraying the lemon balm hydrosol stopped the hurting briefly. Maryanne bottled upward some SJW infused stone oil for me.
Several people mentioned Vitamin B-12 as well as L-Lysine. These both brand perfect sense. A duo people recommended an antihistamine for sleep. Ah sleep, yous elusive tease!
Sleep was the hardest thing. I tried breathing exercises every bit good every bit Reiki, alongside moderate success, but it didn't allow sleep. My rash was unopen to my waist on ane side, spine to navel. It was impossible to larn comfortable. The same was truthful during the day, but nighttime fourth dimension brought a feel of eternal dread. The Dr. prescribed Gabapentin at a depression dose. It made me sleep, but commencement I had to pass a duo of hours retching.
NOTE: The commencement night, I'd also tried everything at once. Everything. At once. That meant that I didn't know what caused the retching. The adjacent nighttime I flora out it was indeed the gabapentin, therefore no to a greater extent than of that. She therefore prescribed a depression dose of elavil. That worked perfectly. Don't elbow grease everything at ane time.
Slowly but surely, the rash receded. It never got oozy or scabby. I believe that likely has a lot to produce alongside the anti-viral medication, but the topicals were likely rattling valuable too. 10 days in, I'm exclusively using a land as well as an elavil at night, as well as that's likely exclusively because of a fearfulness of pain, to a greater extent than than the reality.
I promise this helps someone. As hapless every bit yous powerfulness squall upward this ailment is, it's much worse. I hesitated to write this upward because I know many purists who shun OTC as well as pharmaceuticals. That's fine. Generally speaking, I ever achieve for herbal as well as energetic medicines first, but in that place are times when nosotros demand to combine everything inwards the arsenol.
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