{"id":20592,"date":"2026-06-22T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20592"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:08:36","slug":"doctors-warn-this-silent-virus-can-reactivate-years-later-and-cause-severe-lasting-pain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20592","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Warn: This Silent Virus Can Reactivate Years Later and Cause Severe Lasting Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shingles occurs when the chickenpox virus reactivates years later, causing burning, tingling, pain, and a painful rash usually appearing on one side of the body. Early treatment within 72 hours can help reduce complications.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the first signs, seeking medical care, and staying up to date with vaccination can lower the risk and severity of shingles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Shingles occurs when the chickenpox virus reactivates years later, causing burning, tingling, pain, and a painful rash usually appearing on one side of the body. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=20592\" title=\"Doctors Warn: This Silent Virus Can Reactivate Years Later and Cause Severe Lasting Pain\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20592\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}