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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Kicked my butt for a day, but weighed against 70 days of hell?
Yes. In atypical cases, shingles may recur. In other instances, it can last for years.
No fun at all. But I think I’ve forgotten most of it.
I saw two great uncles go through hell with Shingles. I got the first of the Shingrix shots the day I turned 50. Spare me any conspiracy theory RFK nonsense. I remember well having measles as a kid I cannot contemplate having it in old age. All my kids and now gkids are vaccinated.
It’s not foolproof you could still get Shingles but it has been effective at stopping and/or greatly lessening the symptoms. And yes it’s a fancy “recombinant zoster vaccine”. So if you think Trump is an alien bent on reprogramming your old worn out DNA dont get it.
Even younger people can get Shingles. Don’t wait get the jab.
A word of caution, avoid all women that are pregnant.
I was a bedside nurse for 2 patients over the years that developed shingles over a few days while in the hospital for other conditions. Both times, the nurse on the day rotation was a sweet, young nurse that was in very early pregnancy. Both lost the baby within a few weeks. Both women have gone on to be wonderful mothers.
It may have been only coincidental, but I will never shake the concern from my heart.
Lots of little red dot eruptions on skin that HURT LIKE HELL way out of proportion to what you’d expect! That’s because it attacks nerves. When I had it decades ago the treatment of choice was some sort of vitamin B injection. I don’t know about now. Get to doctor ASAP to minimize your suffering. Especially important if on forehead or anywhere near eyes..can permanently destroy vision.
Yes. The virus “hibernates” so to speak in your spinal fluid. Dormant forever or can reappear anytime along the way. It’s truly a no joke painful bitch of a malady. Which reminds me I need the shingrix...I already had the predeccessor.
Immediate treatment unless you want to risk permanent nerve damage.
I had a breakout 3 years ago and it was only on the heal of my left hand up to the tip of my little finger. I got treatment with 24 hours, but my little finger is still numb today.
My initial symptoms were what I thought was muscle pain in my left forearm, but I had just put 10 tons hat in barn. The next day is when I noticed a small clusters of blisters just below the heal of my hand on the wrist. Again, I figured it was from the hay irritation from the cuff of my glove. But the more I looked at the more I suspected it was shingles, so I went into the urgent care. The doctor said I should have come in at the first sign, but I thought it was no big deal as explained above
...a rash of bumps that hurt like burning hell.
Yep, 2nd worst pain in my long lifetime, superseded by PHN which followed after.
Yes, you can get it more than once.
My Mother had shingles several years ago. I researched it (including here on FR) for her, looking for any kind of relief. I found this info, and it cleared hers up within 5 days (with immediate pain relief). She never had another out break before her death about 3 years later. When my daughter popped out with is a few years ago, I sent her this info, hers cleared up and she has had no outbreaks since.
What I found:
- Shingles is caused by the Herpes Zoster virus which is the same virus as Chicken Pox.
- Shingles around your eyes can blind you.
- There is a vaccine for shingles. Ask your doctor about a shot. Vaccinated people can still get shingles, but they suffer far less pain and the bout is far shorter.
- A non-immune person can get Chicken Pox from you when you have a shingles outbreak.
TAKE:
L-Lysine - clobbers the herpes zoster virus and props up the immune system.
Vitamin D3 boosts your immune system, wards off viruses.
When you have an outbreak, take 6000-8000 milligrams of L-Lysine a day. Also up your dose of Vitamin D to 4000 milligrams.
Once your outbreak is all cleared up, take 2000 milligrams of L-Lysine and Vitamin D as a maintenance dose each day.
P.S. When either FrogDad or I have the “burning itch” that signals an imminent Herpes (fever blister), we take 4000 mg of L-Lysine a day, and it doesn’t turn into the whole blister/scab thing.
Forgive me, I don’t mean to pry but how old are you?
It can flare up again.
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