 [ Symptoms ] i am 15 years old when i woke up for school i had the worst charley horse in my calf my leg is still sore what do i do i have not done much exercising i weigh 112lbs i did wear heels for a few hours on sunday and that friday [ Disease ] 7 years ago i started to experience pain in my right rib cage area over the course of the next few months i had ultrasounds mri xrays ct scans in addition to a number of treatments for pain that included light therapy and nerve blocks finally i was diagnosed with postherpetic neuralgia without ever having experienced a rash breakout assocaited with shingles in that area it has now been almost 7 years and the pain in my rib cage remains some days worse then others and almost alwasy worse with over activity did not realize that you could even have phn without having had the rash outbreak and still find myself searching for answers 7 years along m