more enthusiasm for using prednisone for shingles

November 1996

You'll see more enthusiasm for using prednisone for shingles...especially for patients with severe pain.

So far, prednisone has been used mainly to prevent postherpetic neuralgia. But it doesn't work well to reduce CHRONIC pain.

Now there's evidence that prednisone is useful in the early stages...to relieve ACUTE pain.

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