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Offline medicboy

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« on: February 14, 2005, 02:39:33 PM »
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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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2005, 02:45:36 PM »
Ewwww...you got Herpes.....in all seriousness...isn't it related somehow to chickenpox?
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2005, 02:48:37 PM »
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.

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« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2005, 02:56:37 PM »
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.  

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« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2005, 03:01:59 PM »
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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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2005, 03:40:39 PM »
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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« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2005, 03:47:29 PM »
Wasn't Admiral Halsey sidelined with the shingles?
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« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2005, 04:20:13 PM »
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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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« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2005, 04:24:22 PM »
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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« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2005, 05:04:35 PM »
my dad had em a while ago, calendula ointment worked quite nicely, or so im told
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« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2005, 05:11:49 PM »
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.
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« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2005, 05:25:43 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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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2005, 06:50:41 PM »
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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« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2005, 06:57:39 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2005, 07:00:43 PM »
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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