Talk:Postherpetic neuralgia

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Oh man. I was the one who started this article, almost 2 years ago now. Look how it's grown. I fucking LOVE wikipedia!! I started it after my mother got PHN after getting shingles during chemotherapy. It was a really bad case, and she never recovered, RIP Mom. :-(

I think something should be put in about watchfulness for chemo patients, as apparently they're particularly susceptible.

-RL

I don't know the policies well enough, but are we supposed to include anecdotal evidence of the benefits of marijuana? Are there really no sources to quote on this matter? Peter Isotalo 18:34, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial link?

The Help desk mailing list received a message from the owner of painreliefadvisor.com
While their site may be commercial, the link is supposed to be a reference for material they added. Could someone please fix that? - Mgm|(talk) 13:34, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

http://www.painreliefadvisor.com/types_of_pain/postherpetic_neuralgia.html

If you're talking about these edits, they turned the article into a complete shambles which required weeks to clean up. There is no indication which information is actually properly referenced from that site. Additionally, this information should be sourced to the medical journals in which the research was published, not to a potentially biased commercial outlet. JFW | T@lk 13:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I think this article would serve as a better support than a commercial URL. JFW | T@lk 13:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

As to be expected, the link was inserted without any discussion here[1]. As the arguments above were not addressed I have removed the link. JFW | T@lk 17:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Material overlaps with Herpes zoster

In trying to restructure the article, I noticed that much of the article overlaps with the Herpes zoster article, particularly the sections on Pathophysiology and Signs and Symptoms. Should we refer the reader to the Herpes zoster article, or leave the material in here for context? Uthbrian 05:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Most of the material should be on herpes zoster, with links back from this article. JFW | T@lk 08:09, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

First sntence is rubbish:

Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a painful condition caused by the varicella zoster virus in a dermatomal distribution (
the area governed by a particular sensory nerve) after an attack of herpes zoster (HZ) (commonly known as shingles), 
usually manifesting after the vesicles have crusted over and begun to heal.

To be post-herpetic, it is inevitably going to appear, or rather persist, after the acute infection, it can't be diagnosed earlier or logically exist as an entity separate from Shingles.

Varicella is a Herpes group virus...

Merge.....Midgley 23:07, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NNT/NNH

A systematic review of many modalities: DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020164. JFW | T@lk 20:52, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio from eMedicine

Unfortunately most of the pathophysiology & epidemiology section of this article is a gross copyvio from eMedicine's article http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic317.htm undertaken in this early edit from 2005. As per WP:Copyvio policy I have removed the offending content. However the article does need to describe the epidemiology & pathophysiology, but I'm not sure I understood the eMedicine article on the later that well to rephrase myself :-) Can some one help put here? David Ruben Talk 23:13, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article cluster

For the record, the current article cluster relating to varicella zoster virus is:

Discussions of this cluster include:

--Una Smith (talk) 20:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)