 [ Symptoms ] i belive my boyfriend is bipolar or has boderline personality disorder he is abusive it was just verbal until a couple of weeks ago he slapped me we went and saw a counlsor and he confirmed how abusive he was he wanted him to come for sesssions he was beat as a child by his father he stopped smoking pot 3 months ago but has done that and alcohol all his life he takes no responsibilty for his actions he is degrading and insults me he breaks up all the time and then wants to get back togeather he\ is extremly sensitive and emotional he does not use logic to base decisions on but emotion ofcourse he can also be sweet and wonderful at this point we are breaking up and i am moving out i told him if he ever hit me again i would put him in jail so right now he is very afraid of that he won\ not work on himself he thinks it\ is all my fault how do i deal with him one minute he\ is telling me off the other night and the next minute wants to know if i love him please help [ Disease ] common area no but herpes zoster shingles follows a nerve pathway so this painful infection can occur in this area hopefully your doctor prescribed the appropriate anti herpetic viral medications for you these are quite helpfu pain medication is also important since this can last a while longer how long it would not be possible to make an accurate prediction since this is really up to your immune system but i would expect that you would be considerably improved in a week if you had the antiviral medication the fever headache and flu like symptoms are typical of shingles so hang in there