Posted on 07/09/2025 9:17:06 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Symptoms
The first sign of shingles, which is also called herpes zoster, is pain that might feel like burning or tingling on one side of your face, chest, back, or waist. It can be intense. You might also feel like you're coming down with the flu, with symptoms such as:
Fever Chills Fatigue
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I had chicken pox when I was six, bumps and scabs all over my face and body.
Well in the last week I've noticed red spots on my arms and some scabs.
Shingles, I don't know, but I feel fine.
Burning, itching, thoughts of suicide..................
Have you had your shingles shot? People who had chicken pox when young can come down with shingles. My dad did when young and got the shot.
Dry Attic?
You can get an antiviral to help, if within a couple days.
Shingles can cause permanent, intense pain. A close relative had that—and nothing could blunt it.
From very recent personal experience, shingles will present itself on one side of the body (weird, I know), but I’ve learned that’s a telltale sign.
In my case, I thought I’d pulled a muscle in my left shoulder. A couple of days later there was more discomfort... felt like a long-grade flu. Then the rash appeared — mostly on the back across the left shoulder blade.
My doc took one look and confirmed... 10 days of acyclovir (I think that was it) and things improved. The nerve damage from the rash continued for over a month, though. Almost completely over it now.
Call me paranoid but at this point I wonder if they’re sticking the COVID vaccine into the shingles vax for the oldsters who declined the jab.
*LOW-grade flu
Question for the smart people here ... can you get shingles more than once?
Shingles was the most painful experience of my life.
70 days of sheer hell.
Get checked. Shingles can be dangerous (and you can spread the virus from your scabbed areas) to pregnant women or others who have not had or been vaccinated against chicken pox. It’s especially bad for adults who’ve never had or been vaccinated against chicken pox.
Yes. If you have not received the shingles vaccine. And probably, even if you have received the vaccine. It depends on how effective the vaccine is for you. I had shingles over 15 years ago in my 40s. Haven't had it since and haven't had the vaccine. My aunt got them several times as an adult. This was pre-vaccine. Don't know if she's been vaccinated or had them recently.
I had chicken pox in high school. Another embarrassing week among many (that zit on the tip of my nose, for example). I heard enough horror stories about shingles so I got the shot.
My father had it twice.
I had some tingling and asked a friend of mine who was a doc, and he said it is was the onset of shingles. He sent me right away to the pharmacy for an antibiotic ( I think) and I only got mild case.
Yes, and people generally do.
I got the shingles shot just because I’ve seen people suffer. Got pretty sick from it.
The shingles shot also protects against dementia, which makes sense as the virus lies dormant in your nerve cells.
It’s an old school shot. Not mRNA.
Ouch!
No, because the Covid shot has to be kept cool.
I watched my nurse take it out of a normal cabinet.
I got it about 10 years ago. Helluva pain on the right side. T10 they called it. It lasted a long time.
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