Questions for your doctor
Shingles and continuing pain
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If you think you have shingles, contact a doctor promptly. A rash on the eye or nose, or changes in vision, needs urgent medical assessment. Do not wait to finish this sheet.
- What needs to be assessed about my rash or continuing pain?
- What changes mean I should seek urgent medical help?
- How should we review pain that is not improving or is affecting sleep and daily life?
- What medicine and allergy information should I bring? What should I ask before changing any medicine?
- When should I return, and who should I contact if symptoms change?
- When would it be appropriate to discuss future shingles prevention?
Useful information to bring
When symptoms began; what has changed; effects on sleep or daily tasks; current medicines and medicine allergies.
My questions and appointment notes
Write on the printed sheet. No information is submitted to the website.
Vaccination is prevention, not treatment for a current shingles episode or existing PHN.
General information for a clinical conversation, not a diagnosis or personal treatment plan.
Prepared 13 October 2026.
Sources: CHP shingles section; NHS shingles / PHN; CDC current-episode guidance.