CarolPa
Executive Chef
The doctor should have offered prescriptions for cream and medication for nerve pain. Patients should not have to rely on their current pain medications to help with new and DIFFERENT pain. Topical lidocaine and Neurontin would have helped immensely, if he is still having pain from the shingles call the doc and ask for those two I just mentioned.
We will probably ask for something eventually. DH is not a good patient. He took the antiviral med one day and quit, so the doctor is not real happy with him. I tried and tried to get him to continue on it but he said it made him nauseated and refused to take it. By the way, the nausea didn't go away for days. It probably wasn't the antiviral med that was causing it but you can't tell him that. I think this is why he is having such severe pain now. I took Neurontin for my shingles, but I had taken the antiviral meds so my pain was not as severe as his is. I was able to go to work with mine. There's no way he would have been able to work if he wasn't retired. With his severe pain, which would be better, the Neurontin or the Lidocaine topical, or can he take both?