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Tyrese Halliburton has struggled with a bout of shingles during his season lost to an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Indiana\u00a0Pacers\u00a0star Tyrese Haliburton was prepared to spend this past\u00a0NBA season\u00a0in the shadows, fighting his way back from a\u00a0torn right Achilles tendon.<\/p>\n
He never anticipated the long journey back would take a detour because of\u00a0a bout with shingles.<\/p>\n
On Monday, one day after the Pacers completed a 19-win season without their two-time All-Star ever suiting up, Haliburton told reporters that while he\u2019s ready to return from the injury, it\u2019s the illness that he will contend with this offseason.<\/p>\n
It has caused him to gain weight, lose part of his right eyebrow and forced him to wear eyeglasses to avoid scratching his swollen eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019d tell anybody over 50 years old to get the shot,\u201d Haliburton said. \u201cIt\u2019s been miserable. I have good days and bad days, but for the most part it\u2019s been bad days. I\u2019ve been taking unbelievable amounts of medication to try to get rid of it. It hasn\u2019t worked. It\u2019s not been fun and hopefully it goes away soon. It\u2019s hard to really tell with nerve pain, but I\u2019ve been dealing now with nerve pain for two months and in the world of nerve pain, that\u2019s not very long. Hopefully, it goes away soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who\u2019s had chickenpox harbors that virus for the rest of their life. It hides in nerves and can break out when the immune system weakens from illness or age, causing painful, blister-like sores typically on one side of the body that last for weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Halliburton has struggled with a bout of shingles during his season lost to an Achilles injury. INDIANAPOLIS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85,294668],"class_list":["post-605411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-tyrese-haliburton-shingles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}