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What Causes Severe Ear And Throat Pain After Treating Shingles?

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Posted on Thu, 7 Jan 2016
Question: Have had an excoriation behind and under both ears for a month. Ear ache for 1 week with sore throat for a week. An excoration across rt shoulder/ back area. had a shingles vaccine a yr ago. Nite sweats. Not realted to penopause which I completed years ago. Excoriated areas are painful when touched. slight itching below area of excoriation. Scabs have been there for weeks. No pain unless touched. Scars appear to be forming. Sore troat gone with use of extra water intake which is always good. No other helth issues only med is lexapro after my husband died. High pain tolerance as I worked for a month after a path hip fx due to cysts on head of femur which caused a fall and fx hip and mult fx's to back with tolerable pain allowing me to continue to work while getting appt with pcp, srays than mris's and than after a month IM rodding. I have an incredible pain tolerance without use of meds. I don't think it seems viral. Thank you. xxxxxx
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Answered by Dr. Prof. Kunal Saha (4 hours later)
Brief Answer:
I am sorry that you were not satisfied earlier

Detailed Answer:
Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic. I am really sorry that your experience till now has not been so great. Anyway, I will try to address your problem to your satisfaction. From my side, I will definitely inform them so that they could look into the matter. I would still insist you to write to the customer care of HealthcareMagic so that they can look into the loopholes of the system so that user satisfaction can be ensured.

Now, coming to your question. I understand that you are facing a number of problems. But you need to specify the sort of assistance that you are looking for. It will help me if you could enumerate your questions one by one and I will definitely address them. I would request you to upload an image of the excoriation around the ears so that I could get a better idea of the nature of problem. Ideally a careful clinical examination would be essential but that is beyond scope.

Irrespective of the cause of your sore throat, gurgling with lukewarm water should provide relief.

As regards your pain, hot compress should provide relief.

My answer is in no sense complete as I would wait for your inputs.

Regards
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What Causes Severe Ear And Throat Pain After Treating Shingles?

Brief Answer: I am sorry that you were not satisfied earlier Detailed Answer: Thanks for asking on HealthcareMagic. I am really sorry that your experience till now has not been so great. Anyway, I will try to address your problem to your satisfaction. From my side, I will definitely inform them so that they could look into the matter. I would still insist you to write to the customer care of HealthcareMagic so that they can look into the loopholes of the system so that user satisfaction can be ensured. Now, coming to your question. I understand that you are facing a number of problems. But you need to specify the sort of assistance that you are looking for. It will help me if you could enumerate your questions one by one and I will definitely address them. I would request you to upload an image of the excoriation around the ears so that I could get a better idea of the nature of problem. Ideally a careful clinical examination would be essential but that is beyond scope. Irrespective of the cause of your sore throat, gurgling with lukewarm water should provide relief. As regards your pain, hot compress should provide relief. My answer is in no sense complete as I would wait for your inputs. Regards