I had the shingles on my face and scalp, from my right eye up. I got some scarring on my nose and forehead. The first sign was a sharp persistent pain on the top of my eye. Last year I got that same pain on the eye one and ran to the drugstore and got lysine pills, 500 milligrams, and started dosing myself. The pain went away and I never had the onset of shingles.
Shingles is a form of herpes. Herpes zoster they say. Lysine is a treatment for herpes therefore I thought it might work and it did. Maybe you want to buy some for Thanksgiving present for yourself.
“The first sign was a sharp persistent pain on the top of my eye.”
If it gets to your eye you are cornholed. May lose sight.
In addition to lysine, I have used this supplement that inhibits the ability of viruses to multiply...
Munity Boost - handles many things, including flu. I took care of my wife during a 10 day bout of the flu while I took this. No problems for me. She didn't want to try it and suffered. Later, she had a terrible stomach virus. I got out the Munity Boost and was spared. I now have a spare bottle too. I would also rely on it for shingles.
HOw big a dose of the Lysine did you take? and how often?
“Shingles is a form of herpes.”
Not true. Same family as herpes simplex, but one is not the other.
“Herpes zoster they say. “
Yes, unfortunately they do but that does not make varicella-zoster a herpes virus.