[trisham]

The chicken pox virus never leaves you. It retreats into the nerves, and emerges again later in adulthood as shingles. A few unfortunates get shingles, and then have them develop into full-blown chicken pox. My mother had it happen to her, and I have had it happen to me. Having chicken pox AND the shingles at the same time sucks.

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I'll bet. Shingles alone is supposed to be one of the most painful of illnesses.

[Vicomte13]

Shingles is bad. Chicken pox of the nerves. It doesn't itch. You know that cold and clammy, alarmed feeling you get with the pain of the dentist inserting that needle into the soft tissues between the gum line and the cheek?

Just like that.
For two weeks.
And there's no anesthesia that kicks in.