After you've had chickenpox, the virus can lie dormant in your body and come back later in life ... In severe shingles cases, prescription pain medications, numbing agents or corticosteroids ...
Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye ...
Once Lowe could speak clearly again, he went back to work at WSOC ... continue to bear the burden of shingles for years — with long-term vision loss or nerve pain. Lowe was only 40 when he ...