It is weird, until this year.......never saw anyone talk about it.
So far, all I know is that the doc says all old people get it and it is painful
Good luck
I’ve had patients with Shingles since I started working in Health Care...in 1989
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.
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.