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Sep 29, 2022 12:25:59 #

Toby

Tip that may lessen pain if you have the shingles. I had it on my left chest about 10 years ago. Very painful when I moved and clothes rubbed across it. I started to wear a very tight tee shirt which helped. The shirt was so tight it moved with my skin not across it. Any clothing I wore on top of the shirt did not touch my skin directly if I moved. That problem was solved but not the continuous pain when there was no contact to the skin.

Sep 29, 2022 16:27:49 #

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

I had shingles quite a few years ago, but I didn't know I had it. All I knew was this intense pain in my 'Man' area and in my buttocks (couldn't bear sitting down) Of course the Doc wanted to examine me, and said I had shingles, he said in all his years as a doctor he had never seen it in that area before!...lucky me eh? Since then I have had a jab for pneumonia and shingles, next week I'm due for my (4th) Covid jab and Flu shot, although protection can be a bit iffy for both as I caught mild covid after my third shot and flu four years ago!

Sep 29, 2022 16:43:58 #

bbradford Loc: Wake Forest NC

Good you got the vaccine. I had shingles 10 years ago and it was the worst pain I ever had. It felt like my skin was on fire and every 10 minutes it felt like a knife being jammed in my back.

Sep 29, 2022 17:08:39 #

Jusayen Loc: Oak Ridge,New Jersey

I can’t be sure if I had chicken pox as a kid, I’m 76 now. 10-12 years ago I had tremendous pain on my left side-back,face,leg and my doctor said it was muscular emanating from my back. A week later when the pain and agony was worse he rediagnosed my problem as shingles.In my life this was the worse pain I have ever experienced and I never take days off from work,but I did for this.My advice is to get vaccinated for shingles. Tom

Sep 29, 2022 18:42:48 #

Nigel7 Loc: Worcestershire. UK.

In the UK you get offered free Shingles vaccination by our National Health System when you reach 70. The normal vaccine is a single dose of Zostavax, which is a live vaccine. Therefore, if you have a weakened immune system, you get the newer Shingrix vaccine in 2 doses. This is a non-live vaccine.

Sep 29, 2022 22:18:13 #

RiJoRi Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC

DW insisted we get the shots. Reading this, I'm now glad we did – even though I tried to tell the nice young lady that I didn't have to worry about shingles because we have a metal roof! 😂
They told us yesterday (2nd shot) we might experience fever and chills today. Fortunately, we didn't, and did our volunteer work without trouble. Now to survive the remnants of Ian...

--Rich

Sep 29, 2022 23:15:42 #

DRam11 Loc: Polson, MT

ken_stern wrote:

Got both shots of the Vaccine about a month apart -- After effects = After each shot -- Felt like crap for about 4 days
"Assume" that to be a whole bunch better than getting the real thing

My wife and I have had both of the new shots. She had a rough time with both, body aches, lethargic and a sore arm for a couple days.

My arm was tender for a couple hours and that was all. Same with the COVID shots. It's strange how those shots affect people differently.

Sep 30, 2022 10:23:31 #

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

jerryc41 wrote:

I watched an interesting video about shingles last... (show quote)

Shingles is NOTHING You want to contract. It is Horrible, as both myself and my wife can testify.
If it is medically feasible for you, PLEASE Get Your Shingles Shot!!!
Shingles will not allow you to . . . .
Smile,
JimmyT Sends

Sep 30, 2022 11:39:01 #

Burtzy Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA

I got an early vaccine for shingles and a few years later now have the upgraded to does shot for shingles. As a bonus, the shingles vaccine also came with a vaccine for aluminum siding.

Sep 30, 2022 14:00:12 #

Lost Again Loc: Middle of nowhere Oregon

jerryc41 wrote:

I watched an interesting video about shingles last... (show quote)

Thanks for the info, very interesting. I am a shingles victim and have had all versions of the vaccines available. I am sad to say they don't last very long. I had the double dose version you mentioned above, and, in a year, I had another six weeks of misery. I hope they find something that is permanent someday.

Sep 30, 2022 14:26:32 #

clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa

I got shingles a decade ago. Very painfull but what happened next sucked more. A certain number of shingles patients developed post herpatic neuralgia. From the day I got diagnosed I have had shingles pain on my face. Right upper quadrant . Daily optometrist visits for several month to be sure it didn’t affect my eye. 6 months off work taking medicine that took all my sense of time and reasoning ability. Finally abated enough to go back to work sort of. The pain was impossible to describe. Sometimes an electrical shock, sometimes it feels like a mink scratching to get out of my face. It stops me in my track sometimes. Every morning when I wak up I have 15 to 30 pain free seconds. It changed my life, many of my activities are impossible now. Beats being on the other side of the lawn. You just go with the flow sometimes. I have improved by changing meds, my mind has been clear for a long time. So I would be insistent to the point of being annoying telling every to get the vaccine.

Sep 30, 2022 15:16:21 #

therwol Loc: USA

luvmypets wrote:

The next week he went to his doctor for a follow-up and told the doctor that he was experiencing pain in his ear. She looked in his ear and told him he did not have a stroke, he had shingles in his ear. The stroke medicines were immediately discontinued and treatment for the shingles was begun. It was over a year before he regained the use of the muscles on the left side of his face and I don't believe it was 100%.
Dodie

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. Bad news.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ramsay-hunt-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20351783#:~:text=Ramsay%20Hunt%20syndrome%20(herpes%20zoster,loss%20in%20the%20affected%20ear.

Sep 30, 2022 16:03:35 #

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

therwol wrote:

Thank you for that info. That is exactly what happened to him. This happened probably 8 or 9 years ago and I haven't seen him in over 3 years but I could still tell he wasn't 100% the last time I saw him.

Dodie

Sep 30, 2022 17:27:48 #

lenben Loc: Seattle

This is not a case of Shingles. This is a case of Ramsey-Hunt syndrome. Your friend needed to see a better bunch of doctors-probably saw a physician extender who did not know his stuff.

Sep 30, 2022 18:28:48 #

therwol Loc: USA

lenben wrote:

This is not a case of Shingles. This is a case of Ramsey-Hunt syndrome. Your friend needed to see a better bunch of doctors-probably saw a physician extender who did not know his stuff.

Technically, it is shingles infecting the 7th (facial) cranial nerve. The consequences can be severe and permanent, even with aggressive treatment. A medical student should be able to tell the difference between a stroke and 7th nerve paralysis. I won't go into it, but it's a 10 second observation. As I said, there may be permanent nerve damage even with treatment, but going a week without steroids and an antiviral drug takes it to the point of no return.

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