Is tylenol (acetaminophen) +codeine effective against shingles pain (feels like sciatic pain now as well)? very painful. (about 3 weeks since shingles rash start)

Not very: Topical doxipen cream is most effective but recently has become extremely expensive. Lidocaine patches are effective but can be expensive. The cost of these is out of proportion to the cost of production. 5% lidocaine ointment may work well without great expense. NSAIDS such as naproxen work. Gabapenten by prescription is often used. Narcotics such as codeine are generally used after failure of ab

Herpetic neuralgia: Tylenol (acetaminophen) with codeine is one of the pain medicine used for moderate to sever e pain control. For neuropathic pain sometimes it is necessary to use medicines with different mechanism of action both in systemic and topical routes.