Posted on 07/01/2013 5:54:42 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
My reply to Hinckley Buzzard is # 50 and experience with the run of the shingles. Did not get the pills and couldn’t get the shot— too late. I actually thought it was poison ivy, as had been cutting up a large tree with ivy on it and had contact with the wood chips.
The pain med, antivirals and the combo creams (which can fade out in effect over time and if you lightly moisten the area again.. they will warm up again. This helped. But was immobile in bed a lot at first.
Yes I get it now! :)
Does this mean that everyone who came down with Chicken Pox as a child will end up getting Shingles? I came down with it when I was 10, now I’m heading toward the 50’s. Should I try to get vaccinated.
Not everyone who had chicken pox gets it but the disease is painful and devastating enough that you should get the shot.
I got the shot at age 66. I think I had chicken pox around age 6.
I got the same thing you did. Started with pain in my chest (thought I was having mini heart-attacks), then a rash on my back - thought it was from a backpack sprayer I'd used to kill weeds, and that I'd got some of the stuff on my back.
Nope. Shingles. Got the meds. It still sucked.
when I had shingles, the doc gave e a shot of B-12. Cleared up within days. Whenever pains return, I take a b-12pill, and it dissappears.
The vaccine is new and not at all guaranteed to prevent shingles. I think it decreases your chance of getting shingles by about 50%.
I try to avoid all meds and certainly all vaccines. But my neighbor came down with shingles last year and she was horribly afflicted, in miserable pain, suffered for months. It just about sucked the life out of her. (She’s maybe 80.)
I had chicken pox when I was 15, an extremely awful case — remember counting more than 100 red drippy lesions on my face. So guess what?
I got a chicken pox vaccine shot. When I told her that she’d inspired me to get the shot, she burst into tears. Lovely woman, really thrilled to think she helped me and others avoid the dreadful condition.
Hope you will read the vaccine’s pros and cons and give it due consideration.
all old people do not get it.
a small but significant percentage do, it’s a flare up of varicella from youth (chicken pox virus).
Many people get it behind the ears. it’s scaly and the skin can crack and it’s painful. But for most people it goes away and they don’t get it again.
“The worst presentation is if it presents in the optic nerve, which besides being painful, can cause permanent blindness.”
Had a neighbor with an outbreak in one of her eyes. She lost the eye.
My dad got shingles after his heart operation...he said they were worse than the heart operation or any other pain he'd ever had.
My buddy just went to the Dr. for this last weekend. He has shingles. 53 and white.
My dad got shingles after his heart operation...he said they were worse than the heart operation or any other pain he'd ever had.
So what is the general consensus on the age to get a shot? My dad just got over them from the holidays, he’s 85. Horrible pain with the outbreak on his neck and shoulder area.
I just turned 50 and had a very bad case of the pox at about 5 years of age. Down my throat all over. I’m getting nervous about it especially if I have to miss a lot of work.
Anyone who ever had Chickenpox as a child, should get the vaccine - our doc sent me to the local pharmacy - took longer to clear the charges with the insurance company than to get the shot, which was administered by the pharmacist - no side effects - an ounce of prevention.......
I do not recall that is what I said. I am pretty sure I said it is a new disorder........
haven’t you ever wondered about all these “you are going to die” medical commercials on TV.
Personally they should go back to advertising booze and sigs, people were calmer then.
no i was responding to what you said your doctor told you - that all old people get it.
Not. Just Old people. Got my first case in my forties around my rib cage. Took the antiviral drug which got rid of the blisters but not the underlying discomfort. Then got them again- around my eye- three years ago. That’s the scary one. You can go blind. It wasn’t in my eye but I looked like I’d been in a prize fight. The antiviral drugs take two times longer to work when it’s on your face.
Nonsense. I had it when I was thirty. The pain was excruciating. It comes from stress. Just take the medication and spend ten days in bed. That will do it. It will come back in a few years, but never so hard.
Seconded. You don't even need a doctor's appointment - most pharmacists do them these days.
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