still feeling a little icky from the valtrex, but I think the valtrex is starting to help the itching just a little bit. It's not quite as intense as it was.

Good trade off. I'd rather feel a little icky, than be trying to scratch my skin off of myself. Hope the valtrex keeps calming down the itch.

I just don't remember shingles being quite this horrible the last time I had it. But then, the last time I had shingles, I was 27 years old, and hadn't started having all the MS symptoms that I have now.

Do think that the shingles, and the mononucleosis that I got at around the same time both had something to do with the MS developing later. I started having issues with vertigo within at least a year of having shingles and mono.

Really hope that this time the shingles doesn't trigger an MS flare. Because that would really really suck a lot. I'll be extremely peeved if that happens.

My left ear hurts. Starting to wonder if that's a neurological pain from the shingles. When I saw the doctor on friday, that was one of my big complaints. He looked in my ears then, and said they were fine.

With the itching lifting away a bit, right now my biggest complaint is the ear pain, and the muscle aches in my shoulders and back, and my neck. Hope that doesn't last much longer.

knock on wood that this is not going to be really severe. I'm having a bad enough year as it is. Think I'm living in terror of a bigger MS flare right now because of all the stress and the shingles.