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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: medicboy on February 14, 2005, 02:39:33 PM
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And I am not talking about what goes on your roof. Has anyone else here ever had these. I got diagnosed on Saturday after 4 days of intense sunburn like pain an my anterior and posterior right chest. This is the most painful thing I have ever gone through and I have numorous broken bones, and was shot when I was a teenager. Not even close. Good thing is I have a mountain of pain killers at my disposal now.
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Ewwww...you got Herpes.....in all seriousness...isn't it related somehow to chickenpox?
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My mom got em and she is normally allmost immune to pain... In this case tho...She said the pain was about to drive her insane after a few months of it.
In desperation she tried accupuncture when a friend suggested it to her. For whatever reason... the pain lessened dramatically after the first accupuncture treatment and was completely gon after I believe, three treatments... any sign of the shingles whent away.
Don't know if or why it worked but she thinks it did so... in her case.... It was a godsend.
lazs
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Got it about seven years ago while I was in college. Started getting that pins and needles feeling on my left thigh and lower left back. Looked and saw I was starting to break out in little red dots where the pain was. Doctor confirmed it was shingles and gave me some pain killers. I didn't get a really bad case of it (I was 24 at the time and they say the older you are when you get it the worse it feels, just like chicken pox), as my leg felt it was on fire for only a week. It's from the chicken pox virus, which stays in your spine after you first get it.
mauser
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It is the Chicken Pox virus (which is a form of herpes) that goes dormant and lives in your nerve ganglion (anyone who has had the chicken pox can get shingles) and things like stress, trauma, ect can activate it, except that this time your body does not build imunity and you are prone to break outs for life.
Laz, I am looking into accupuncture, as I am already on antiviral meds and they are tearing me up, But I feel for your Mom, It feels like my chest is on fire!!!
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I kinda like Shingles. Sure, they're more salty then the ones that come in the bag, but they have a total 'McDonalds french fries' style to them that really appeals to me.
Plus, you can turn the cans they come in into an antenna for your wireless network.
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Wasn't Admiral Halsey sidelined with the shingles?
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Originally posted by lazs2
My mom got em and she is normally allmost immune to pain... In this case tho...She said the pain was about to drive her insane after a few months of it.
In desperation she tried accupuncture when a friend suggested it to her. For whatever reason... the pain lessened dramatically after the first accupuncture treatment and was completely gon after I believe, three treatments... any sign of the shingles whent away.
Don't know if or why it worked but she thinks it did so... in her case.... It was a godsend.
lazs
My grandma has had it for years and nothing has really helped her. Acupuncture does help a lot of people but it didn't do squat to her. If anyone has any ideas I'd be glad to hear them.
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We learned about this in biology. The virus inserts its DNA into your DNA. From there, it is capable of being either dormant or active. When something triggers the virus to go active, it will start lysing cells and reproducing.
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my dad had em a while ago, calendula ointment worked quite nicely, or so im told
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My housemate got them. She was complaining that a flea bit her, over the weekend while I was gone, to the other house mates. I got home and took a look at these flea bites. I just said, "Uh, you should go see a ****ing doctor. Those are NOT flea bites."
She came home the next day and told us she had shingles. I immediately looked it up to make sure it wasn't contagious. Luckily we all had chickenpox at some point, so we couldn't get the virus.
-SW
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Originally posted by medicboy
And I am not talking about what goes on your roof. Has anyone else here ever had these. I got diagnosed on Saturday after 4 days of intense sunburn like pain an my anterior and posterior right chest. This is the most painful thing I have ever gone through and I have numorous broken bones, and was shot when I was a teenager. Not even close. Good thing is I have a mountain of pain killers at my disposal now.
acyclovir (http://www.school-for-champions.com/health/shingles.htm)
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My Mum got shingles in 1962 - very nasty. She got it within 1mm of a critical part of her eye, and would have lost the sight of that eye had it been any closer. Just recently, she had some recurrent problem in which the fact that she'd had shingles 42 years ago played a part.
I believe the drug that saved her sight in 1962 was hydrocortisone.
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Yes got em .
I think the doctor called them herpies zoster or something like that.
For Gods sake dont sratch em and then wipe your eyes people have been blinded that way.
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Very well could have been beetle, Hydrocortizone is an antiinflamitory, and if this virus infects the optic nerve it could damage or destroy the vision in that eye. Mine goes along the nerve pathway that follows my 7th rib on the right side. It goes from my spine around under my armpit, under the nipple and to my sternum (since nerves don't cross the half way mark on your body).
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I've had a pinched nerve in that region, doctors thought it was shingles at first. Didn't sleep for 3 days, everytime I feel asleep my body would relax into a painful position. Something akin to someone sticking a burning hot knife into your back and twisting it around and around.
That was bad enough, and that was just one nerve...
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My best friend got shingles a couple years ago. It nearly got the best of him. There's not a lot you can do except take the meds and let them run their course and pray there is no recurrence anytime soon.
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Had it at University. Don't want it again! It bloody hurts.
Take the meds and get ye to bed.:eek:
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I have not had chicken pox, it worries me, I hear they can be deadly later in life.
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Yep, had em on the palm of my hand, and on my left bicep
Was like someone stuck a knife in and was grinding away
Had em when I was going thru a divorce, high stress brings em on, they lie dormant in all of us, haven't had em since thank jod
NwBie