Shingles And Not What Goes On A House, Naturopathic Links

I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV.  I was an EMT and I've read more books on examinations, nursing, natural remedies, and homeopathic medicine than is smart or decent probably.
My husband got what seemed to be shingles, general tired feeling, achey, burning sensation in almost a square moving from his backbone around his body, changing into blisters...
I have MANY relatives that are doctors and nurses.  My daughter is a nurse...cousin, aunts, sister in law, neices, cousins doctors, uncle doctor....I've also had steroids and took one dose and said NO MORE.  It was like being on amphetamines but NOT FUN.  (not that I would know).  It's not like we don't KNOW medical people?
Steroids, antibiotics, antivirals, and painkillers are the treatment of choice for shingles we found out.
My husband isn't too much on traditional medicine and he didn't think he was "sick" enough to go to the doctor and then he got worse when he had to work....he wanted to know what the doctor would probably prescribe and he said NO.  (we are talking about the man who had a kidney stone pass and tried to get me NOT to take him to the emergency room when we were almost there after he couldn't even DRESS himself!!)
My husband also takes Dr. Sinatras Vitamins and has for years.  He also takes the blood sugar supplement and q-10 as well.  In all defense we don't get sick very much anymore since the kids are gone and not in school.  My husbands mother is 85 and had open heart surgery in February which started this all we believe because she also had a stroke and was sick before the surgery etc....
So with all that under consideration I tried and tried and tried to get husband to go to the doctor.  I thought it was shingles, his sons had had shingles as well as my mother.  Husband said NO, what else can I do about it, I'd rather buy vitamins than take all that medicine.  (he hates painkillers and has had some bad experiences with antibiotics) So I researched on the internet and found what vitamins etc. were recommended for shingles and we bought common run of the mill vitamins, herbs, and supplements from Wal-Mart.
He is better now.  He would say he is cured.  Remember this is not medical advice in any way this is just what worked for him.
What did he take besides his regular Dr. Sinatra vitamins and a low carb, low glycemic diet he's been following for awhile anyway?
Pain relievers either ibuprophen or naproxen sodium both generic, as needed.
Aloe topically (left over sun-burn pain reliever) as needed.
L-Lysine
Echinacea
St. Johns Wort
Vitamin C
Viatamin B combo
Vitamin E
And we were also trying grape seed which had some green tea in it.
The vitamins were given @ the rate of 2 a day, not sure on the amounts but they were whatever you would grab off of the shelf @ Wally World.  The Vitamin B and E in fact I had in my arsenal of vitamins so I have no idea what the dosage was.  We are down to 1 a day on the vitamins.
The St. Johns Wort we were both taking 4 a day, now it's 2.  Everything else was 2 a day, now it's 1.
Also some foods can not cause shingles but they aren't good for it.  Nuts are one food that isn't good for shingles, we had a giant can of GOOD mixed nuts not long before he got shingles...
Some days he misses the vitamins but we try to keep it up.
The normal course of Shingles is a month or 6 weeks.  His lasted maybe 3 weeks, maybe a month.  They never did get very bad except for the pain.  He had two blisters which lasted a week maybe?
He swears he is cured.
I lift my hands and say (in my best faith healer voice) you are CURED, I say CURED, I have CURED you.  He doesn't think this is funny.
His blood pressure is also down about 20 points which is GREAT.  He attributes those big white pills.( L-Lysine).
Links not harmed in the filming of this documentary are....
http://thisisawar.com/HealthCold.htm
http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/23/130.cfm
http://naturopathicmedicineworks.blogspot.com/2008/03/shingles-is-caused-by-same-virus-as.html
http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Shingles.htm
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/shingles/shingles-medications
Humor me OK???  Just our experience and what helped.