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Topical treatments, such as lidocaine or capsaicin, should be considered as first-line treatment if a patient falls into the “sensitised nociceptor” as opposed to “deafferentation” sub-group of PHN patients.
Despite advances in antiviral therapy during acute herpes zoster and the more recent introduction of vaccination against varicella zoster, PHN continues to be a significant clinical problem, with 10–20% of patients developing persistent neuropathic pain after acute herpes zoster reactivation.
However, they found evidence for analgesic efficacy in established PHN for orally administered therapies, such as tricyclic antidepressants, some opioids, gabapentin, tramadol, and pregabalin.
In this month's PLoS Medicine , Andrew Rice and colleagues reassessed the evidence base by doing a systematic review and meta-analysis of analgesic therapy for PHN, which has fundamentally changed in the wake of several major new trials.
Although shingles usually resolves within a month, some people continue to feel the pain of PHN long after the rash and blisters heal, because of nerve damage (neuropathic pain) caused by the shingles.