At its peak last week, on a scale of one to 10, Aaron Gettinger said he was at 'seven or eight in terms of pain.'
-- A Bridgeport neighborhood man recovering from monkeypox told his story Friday in the hopes of helping others.
The lesions on Gettinger's body are starting to heal, and the pain is fading. But it was not pleasant, to say the least. "I called my prescriber for a next level of painkiller, because garden-variety ibuprofen - which is still a prescription-level pain medication - was not doing it for me," Gettinger said."I needed something else."primarily among men with same-sex partners.
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