Research indicates that some folks suffer from the pain for years (and YEARS!) after the initial shingles outbreak. The shingles virus (herpes zoster virus) stays in your nervous system, not just the skin, and can get reactivated at any time.
Without keeping your immune system in check, the pain may come back and you’ll have to go through the skin lesions, neuralgia and shingles stigma all over again.
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