Dealing With The Pain Of Shingles
Do you know what pain can be even worse than a heart attack? The answer may surprise you, but it’s shingles pain! We all know the itching, burning and discomfort of the chickenpox virus that we endured as kids, but this experience does precious little to prepare us for the horror of shingles later in life. In fact, the pain is so bad it was one of two things (other than heart bypass surgery) to keep late night talk-show host David Letterman out of work in over 20 years. The night of his return, Letterman described his experience as follows: “The BLEEP suckers are so BLEEPING painful, every minute you pray some giant son-of-a-BLEEP will shove a red-hot poker up your BLEEP!”