[Magdalen] Shingles update

[Jay Weigel]

I am taking 50 mg of benadryl at night just to sleep. It helps marginally.
I don't want to take it during the day.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would Benadryl help with the itching, Jay?
>
> On August 29, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, the scaliness and any bumps and blisters have abated, so I look like
> I never had shingles at all. My eye *feels* okay, except that it waters now
> and then, which has more to do with the fact that I blink a lot because my
> eyelid itches. The itching, now, THAT is the problem. Seems I now have
> post-herpetic neuralgia, or something. I don't know, that's the best I can
> come up with because I can't get in to see my doctor; I've called and
> "Sorry, we don't have anything until sometime late next week. If it's
> urgent you need to go to the ER." (Forgive the language, but scr** that.)
> When the area isn't itching, there's kind of a creepy-crawly feeling, or
> the rest of the time the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep and
> it's "waking up". And the headache, which isn't too bad most of the time,
> just kind of *there*. Where it's been now for 3 weeks. I'm really,
> seriously over it all. Boy, am I over it.
>
> Sorry for the whine.
>