*Like any other disease condition, people who experience this must rest in order to regain back their health rapidly and also to achieve optimum level of recuperation.
* Healing Saints : [[St. Anthony the Abbot]]
==Complications of shingles: Post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)==
Some patients have been shown to experience persistent or recurrent pain, known as PHN. This is the most common complication of shingles and is categorized as the persistence of pain exceeding 90 days after the onset of rash, owing to nerve damage.
PHN Is also triggered by stimuli that include stress; although psychological variables are known to trigger shingles and PHN includes personality psychopathology, hypochondriasis, and somatic symptoms.
Overall, psychological stress is likely to exert its deleterious impact via the action on the immune system. These effects on immunity can explain the associations between psychological stress in the development of shingles and his complication PHN. To determine the role of the specific psychiatric disorders on immunity, further research is necessary and their potential to contribute to the development of either shingles or PNH.
== Warnings ==
This reactivated, more virulent form of varicella virus can damage nerves enough to develop into postherpetic neuralgia, which rephrased in layperson's language is "after herpes came intense nerve pain." Acute and chronic peripheral nerve pain may exist in the areas where the shingles skin lesions are located. The consequences can be lethal.