The patient with shingles has been on an antiviral medication since the vesicles appeared.The nurse encourages the patient that such early treatment will probably prevent:

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Early treatment may avoid postherpetic pain syndrome,but it cannot assure that there will not be more vesicles or that the disease will not attack the eye.Pain with shingles is very hard to control.

The Patient with Shingles Has Been on an Antiviral Medication