You can have Shingles nerve pain with no rash. It comes when the virus cannot activate fully, but only does so partially.
Ice will make it dormant again...so will l-lysine. Sometimes the Shingles virus wakes up when arginine is too plentiful in the diet, and not balanced by lysine. Arginine is required for the virus to replicate.
Here is a Herpes food chart:
http://www.herpes.com/Nutrition.shtml
This gives arginine and lysine content in common foods.
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