Anyone ever have shingles? I currently have it and I didnt know it could be so painful. Anyone have any advice?

Anyone ever have shingles? I currently have it and I didnt know it could be so painful. Anyone have any advice?

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i had it when i was twelve didnt hurt tho. sure did suck tho

My bro had shingles. We made him weed brownies and he told me it eliminated the pain all day. But still went to the doctor to get it sorted out.

Had it in the 2nd grade, manifested from under my belly button to the left and straight through to my back, didn't hurt unless it was pressed and felt like a stab going straight through when it was. Just don't touch it try as hard as you can not to rub anything against it or hit it. It should go away after a few weeks. Mine ended up crusting over like how chicken pox do and then faded away after 2 weeks.

Get a prescription of acyclovir

forgot to mention I got an ointment for it too, don't remember what it was called.

Im currently taking acyclovir, thank you!
Its ironic, I was told its extremely rare to get shingles at my age (20)

There are these magical wizards called "Doctors" nowadays who specialise in treating injuries, illnesses, diseases and viruses. They'll treat anyone, even a retarded faggot with shingles so, my advice would be to consult one ASAP.

I must have had shit luck getting it at 7... Or maybe lucky since pain now feels worse than it did as a kid and not so easy to walk away from

I have! Just wondered what Sup Forums's experiences were

Got it a few years ago. Pain started on my back and chest but the shingles appeared on my right thigh. Hurt like fuck could hardly move my leg. Got some medicine can't remember what bit it still took a few weeks to disappear. Mfw I still get sharp pains in my chest once in a while

I had it in Kuwait, on my way home from 1st tour in Iraq. Shoulders and middle back up my neck and top of my head (apparantly an uncommon place for it to occur)
Had to stay away from anyone who had never had chicken pox and have meal brought to me like low-level quarantine.

Shit sucked but there's nothing you can do but wait it out. Soak in the tub if it gets really bad.

Started having headaches and muscle spasms 6 months afterward. All in the same places I had the sores. Convinced that it left permanent nerve damage but have never had a doctor agree with me.

So I guess the consensus is that it should take a couple weeks. Fuck. Its been a bitch moving my arm so I've been keeping it in a sling (waking up and falling asleep are the worst.)

At least I have vicodin .

The really shit part is the affected nerves are permanently damaged and you gonna get pains for months or years to come

it's been 20 years since I had mine, I haven't had any residual pain after the initial affected area disappeared, is it normal for pain to remain?

Isn't is just a form of cooties?

You're lucky I guess. Other people I know get pains even after a few years. Maybe depends on how quickly you get it treated or how bad it was initially

I'm That got it at age 7, guess since I was still young and healed better. Makes sense I guess since it's a form of the chicken pox virus and they say its worse to get that when you're older

I had shingles at 23 OP. From stress apparently.
Fucken hurts like a mother fucker. I had them across my chest and back. Also contagous.

I would get some good fucken drugs if I were you.

>Anyone ever have shingles?

only people that will ever get it were vaccinated with the chicken pox vaccine

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^< there are thousands of things like that

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Twelve days following varicella vaccination in his right arm, a 6-year-old male developed wild-type herpes zoster rash on his back and left arm.

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A 1-year-old boy was vaccinated with the Oka strain of varicella just prior to the discovery of a tumor that required intensive antitumor therapy. Three months later he developed herpes zoster, which developed into chronic verrucous lesions that were refractory to treatment with acyclovir and which subsequently disseminated. DNA from a biopsy specimen of a chronic herpes-zoster lesion indicated that the Oka vaccine strain of the virus caused this severe complication. Analysis of this viral DNA demonstrated a mutation in the viral thymidine kinase gene. Plasmids containing this altered gene were unable to produce functional thymidine kinase in an in vitro translation system. The presence of this mutation would explain the clinical resistance to acyclovir. This is the first report of Oka-strain varicella virus causing severe disease after reactivation and of resistance to acyclovir during an infection caused by this virus.

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Varivax III is a live attenuated vaccine against varicella zoster virus (VZV). The authors report “a case of recurrent vaccine-strain herpes zoster in an immunocompetent 2-year-old child.” This report aims to alert physicians that recurrent vaccine-strain herpes zoster can be a rare complication of VZV vaccination in apparently immunocompetent hosts.

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Herpes zoster complicated by meningitis has been mainly reported in immunocompromised patients after reactivation of wild-type varicella-zoster virus. We present one of the first cases of aseptic meningitis after herpes zoster caused by reactivation of vaccine-type varicella-zoster virus in an immunocompetent child. We also highlight the increasing role of both wild-type and vaccine strains of varicella-zoster virus as a cause of viral meningoencephalitis and the use of appropriate laboratory tools to rapidly and accurately identify the virus in order to provide prompt patient care and management.

On November 5, 2007, parents of a daughter with shingles wrote Dr. Goldman:
“A friend of mine e-mailed me a link to an article you had written regarding the chickenpox vaccine. Our oldest daughter who is only 16 recently suffered from her second bout with shingles. She first had an episode of shingles at the age of 13. Our daughter NEVER had chickenpox, but was given the varicella vaccine in 1995. We were never told or even warned that it could cause shingles. We find it unbelievable that the ‘solution’ we are being provided is to go to the Infectious Disease Department at a local University Hospital in order to have them ‘help us manage’ this for the rest of our daughter’s life. Now we have to remedy the shingles and we are altogether convinced that there will be many, many other young people adversely affected by what is a dangerous vaccine with awful side affects that stay with you for a lifetime...far worse than chickenpox in one’s youth. Our daughter missed a week of school each time and suffered incredibly....”

On September 22, 2008, a nurse telephoned Dr. Goldman to report the following:
“My son, who had natural chickenpox at 3 years of age, and who is now 16 years old, has been recovering for the past 6½ months from herpes zoster (with a rash in the T1 dermatome). He experienced vomiting and severe headaches that lead to a diagnosis of viral meningitis from central nervous system (CNS) complications of herpes zoster.”

Interestingly, the nurse indicated that the physician treating her son had encountered another teen with the same diagnosis a week prior to her son’s case.

Prior to the universal varicella vaccination program, 95% of adults experienced natural chickenpox (usually as school age children)these cases were usually benign and resulted in long term immunity. This high percentage of individuals having long term immunity has been compromised by mass vaccination of children which provides at best 70 to 90% immunity that is temporary and of unknown durationshifting chickenpox to a more vulnerable adult population where chickenpox carries 20 times more risk of death and 15 times more risk of hospitalization compared to children. Add to this the adverse effects of both the chickenpox and shingles vaccines as well as the potential for increased risk of shingles for an estimated 30 to 50 years among adults. The Universal Varicella (Chickenpox) Vaccination Program now requires booster vaccines; however, these are less effective than the natural immunity that existed in communities prior to licensure of the varicella vaccine. Routine vaccination against chickenpox has produced continual cycles of treatment and disease.
Gary Goldman

1995 - year chicken pox vaccine goes into overdrive

yea i got advice dont be a fag who gets hurt
I got a skin shit in my ears that makes me either bleed or have fucktons of dead skin in my ear pick skin bleed dont pick skin look like i got cheese in my ear i pick bleed
I dont bitch like a puss eat it up fag