Your Questions About Shingles

The doctor diagnosed me with having shingles!Aren’t shingles supposed to hurt?

Alright I have had type 1 herpes for 6 months plus!I was just diagnosed with type 2 herpes on jan 16th of this year. Now my doctor diagnosed me with having shingles. Is it possible that the herpes virus of type 1 & 2 & sense i have this its sorta helping the shingles virus?I mean by helping is by cutting the shingles symptoms & not causing pain.

I have heard that shingles is supposed to be painful. Headaches, chills without a temperature ect….I don’t get it. I am not in pain. It don’t itch that bad. I just dint get it. Is it possible she could of misdiagnosed me?Has any one had shingles without any symptoms before?Or has any one been diagnosed with type 1 & 2 herpes & then later get tested for shingles & dint have symptoms for that either. When i have outbreaks for herpes type 1 or 2 i dint get no temperature or headaches or nothing like that either. Just one bump & that’s it.

Does genital herpes cause nerve pain?

I have had herpes for 20 years. The outbreaks over the last few years have been few and far between. The only problem I really experience is nerve pain. Sometimes it starts at the site of the first outbreak and travels down my leg. Mostly it occurs on other parts of my body intermittently, like on my arm, on my side, maybe even just one spot on my leg. I can’t find any answers anywhere on the internet. I have never had shingles but I did have chickenpox as a kid. I do take neurontin daily, sometimes it helps but if its severe pain then it doesn’t help at all. Does anyone else have this problem?

A Question about shingles?

I got the shingles last year and I know that it has to do with the chicken pox virus and your immune system. But my question is what causes the itchy red bumps to come to the surface of the skin and why is the outbreak in the position its in

Reocurring Shingles on both sides of the body?

I’ve had major stress/anxiety issues for a long time now, along with physical pain that doctors could not explain, most of it was in my legs, shoulder and side.

Last year I had intense pain in my left side, accompanied by a rash. My doctor immediately dx’d it as shingles, and did lab work to confirm. I was put on valtrex and it went away soon after.
After that I had a few minor outbreaks but nothing too bad, but still a lot of pain in my legs, and lots of anxiety problems.
Then last month I got it again, intense pain in my left side with a rash, doctor told me it was another outbreak. He again put me on antivirals and steroids to stop the inflammation. Only a couple days after the medication they came back in full force, this time I have a rash on both sides (esp on my back) on my buttocks, my groin area and chest and possibly my face.
My doc said it’s not possible to have shingles on more than one area, but what else could this be?? It’s causing me tons of pain, and I’ve already used up all the vicoden he gave me and I’m afraid of asking for more. And more importantly I just want all this to go away.

Is there a way to get social serivces involved with a severely anorexic co-worker?

I work with a 56-57 year old woman who is severely anorexic. She is aproximately 5’2 and I am being completely serious when I say she cannot way more than 75 lbs–and most likely ways slightly less. I am younger and started with this company 3 years ago (she has been there over 20) and during this time she has pretty much lost contact with her entire family because of this disease. Other long time employees say she has been anorexic (though never this bad) as long as they can remember. When I started, she was obviously very underweight, and probably weighed 85 lbs. Though she is usually covered up, I’ve caught glimpses of her arms and collar bone and what you see is like looking at a picture of a holocaust victim. She lives about a mile from work and walks everywhere. Every single day since I’ve worked there she walks for about 50 minutes during lunch. Pretty much the only thing I’ve ever seen her eat in 3 years is a yougert after her lunch walks and a diet soda at 10 am sharp. Other than that– quite literally I’ve seen her eat 1 single scrambled egg on one occasion and a few bites of toast on another–both were during special office meetings hosted at restraunts. What has really been signifigant and causes great alarm as of late is that her husband of close to 20 years left her last year and moved across the country because of her refusal to try to get better, and now she lives all by herself. Her daughter (who lives in another state) has in the past few months finally come to a breaking point with the situation and has had to stop speaking with her and won’t allow her contact with her grandaughter (entirely because of her disease)–and she still refuses to seek treatment. She will acknowledge she has a problem, but in the same breath talk about how healthy she is. Slowly she is getting worse and worse–It is truly the most horrific and disturbing thing I’ve ever had to experience in the work place. I am convinced I will never meet someone like this ever again in my life. Recently she had to get taken the the ER because of a shingles outbreak and the doctors released her! It truly seems that she is to the point now that she cannot make sound mental decisions for herself and I would think that the state should be able to step in and force her into treatment. She is committing a slow suicide and no one seems to be doing anything about it! I’ve spoken with my supervisor- and she has escalated it to the higher ups, and apparently there is nothing the company can do unless she has a medical emergency on work property. Everyone in our office is at their witts end with the situation. She looks like a corpse walking– I mean she honestly makes Karen Carpenter look of normal weight!! Any suggestions on who I can contact or what would be some appropiate steps to take?