Hello. Thank you for writing to us at healthcaremagic Shingles usually presents as pain and fluid filled lesions in a stripe like pattern, along a dermatome. While these fluid filled lesions usually dry up and scab in a few days i.e 7-10 days, pain may last for a few more days and is then known as herpes associated neuralgia/ HAN and if it lasts longer than a month after resolution of shingles, it is known as PHN/ Post herpetic Neuralgia. Neuralgic pain is due to inflammation and damage to cutaneous nerves. Management of pain is symptomatic i.e with oral NSAID s like ibuprofen. Oral tricyclic antidepressants like amytriptyline, nortryptyline etc may also be considered for neuralgic pain as can agents like carbamzepine, gabapentin, pregabalin etc. All of these agents are helpful in various other conditions associated with neuralgic pain e.g diabetic neuropathy etc. These are all prescription drugs and sometimes may be required to be administered for weeks or months and therefore I suggest you to visit a dermatologist or a neurologist in your region for the needful. Regards