My husband 77 yrs old got shingles in left shoulder and hand1 yr ago. the shingles are gone but he has nerve ending pain in his pinky and the finger next to it. the pain is so severe it makes him cry. He takes gabapentin, and a pain pill with a sleeping pill if needed. Is there something else we can do to ease the pain?
Post herpetic neuralgia is perhaps the most treatable type of nerve pain. Any nerve drug has well over a 50/50 chance of really helping. Various drugs include but are not limited to, lidocaine patch, amitryptiline which has lidocaine like effects, any antiepileptic, and then other modalities that damage the nerve further like capsaicin, or surgical procedures.