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B12 injections help with pain in shingles.

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A study looked at the effect of B12 injections on the pain caused by herpes zoster infection (the cause of shingles) and found it helps reduce it. sciencedirect.com/science/a...

I ish I’d known this 35 years ago when my mum had shingles.

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And me I've had shingles twice . I painted stuff on .

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My g. P. told me they used to prescribe it regularly for shingles in the 70s. So they knew it helped nerve pain then.

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I was living in Vienna in 1965 when I got shingles . The treatment was B12 injections .

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