what's helped me the best with the worst of the ZAPS! has been hair dryers.
While it only slows/stops the pain for moments, those ARE pain-free moments.

Medium to moderate heat on the 'active' areas for short periods of time, warm up the outside areas of the package, but they feel better than massage used to! Those paks containing rice or barley hulls that can be microwaved also provide slow, gentle heat as well.

Heating pads can be a danger tho as using them too long [more than 20-30 mins] in one place opens doors to possible burns-not a good thing at all!

Only other thing, I guess, would be to think positive....as in: I WILL BE HEALTHY THRU THIS! Positive is far better than negative?

Super good thoughts your way...for the duration! - j