The unbearable pain of “shingles”

  It was close to the end of the day, and Auntie Wang kept pacing up and down in front of my clinic, seeing that there weren’t many patients around before she quietly came in and asked if she could be treated for her disease.  Auntie Wang said she was suffering from shingles, and I was shocked that it was another difficult disease. Postherpetic neuralgia has treated a number of patients in the past, and the effect of buried wire analgesia is still possible, but the patient needs to cooperate with the treatment to maintain the effect of treatment, which is a very tedious form of treatment.  Auntie Wang said her shingles grew in a bad location, from the buttocks to the perineum, and seemed very self-conscious. She also said that herpes zoster was not the most painful, her anal swelling and pain, accompanied by mixed hemorrhoids, and self-conscious internal burning during stool, which the surgeon said was not worth considering as a minor problem, to be tolerated. Although hemorrhoids are small, the patient’s pain cannot be considered small.  I couldn’t decide if there was a connection between this anal distension and herpes zoster, and I felt more confident treating anal distension with buried threads than treating herpes zoster pain, so I decided to start with treating hemorrhoids and treating herpes zoster pain in the meantime. So I took Baihui, Chengshan and Daoyu buried threads, left buried needles in the direction of the anus at the lumbar Yangguan, and took the lung-sacral points with both hands to bury the threads.  At the end of the treatment, Auntie Wang was allowed to stand and self-reported that there was no longer any obvious discomfort at the anus, and she was told to go back and press some acupuncture points on her own for 10 minutes three times a day to see the effect later.  Despite the immediate effect of the buried thread and acupuncture treatment, the effectiveness of the treatment has been demonstrated, indicating that the treatment idea is correct. It cannot be denied that some diseases require long-term treatment to be effective, but treatment without immediate effect can only be an empirical reasoning. Those who tell patients that they need to treat for 3 months or even 6 months to see the effect of treatment are either very sure or not sure at all, DDDD is more unsure, a kind of pretext with no bottom in mind.  For pain, I believe more in long-term treatment modalities that have an immediate effect.