Results
The study included 27 females, 26 males, 53 patients diagnosed with shingles, and 17 females, 10 males, as a control group. The mean age of the patients was 45.90 ± 18.07, the mean age of the control group was 40.64 ± 16.49, and there was no difference between the control group and the patient groups in terms of gender and age. In order of frequency, shingles lesions were located on the extremity in 5 patients (9.5%), in the head and neck region in 9 patients (17%), in the thoracic region in 17 patients (32.1%), and in the lumbosacral region in 22 patients (41.5%). While 66% of the patients (n: 35) had pain symptoms, and 34% (n: 18) had itching symptoms (Table 1). There was no difference in gender and age between patients with HP symptoms and patients with HI symptoms (respectively p = 0.22, p = 0.55). Vitamin B12 values in patients with HP (295.50 ± 86.37) were found to be lower than HI (364.72 ± 119.22) and control group (355.88 ± 113.91) (respectivelyp = 0.021, p = 0.046). No significant relationship was found between vitamin B12 values of patients with HI and the control group (p = 0.816). (table 2)