Carol asks…
If you had shingles, tell me your experience with it?
What are the stages of shingles, and is twitching in the fingers a sympton?
How long does it last if caught early on?
Not finding much info on the internet about it.
admin answers:
Honestly, I can’t answer your questions with certainty but I did have shingles. I was in college and the nurse, if you can call her that said i had a rash from detergent.. Which i knew was wrong. It was very painful and i could barely sleep aside from obviously being itchy. When i finally was able to get to a real doctor they knew in a second that was what it was and they gave me vicoden for the pain. Unfortunatly by the time i got to a real doctor it was on its way out.. But i would say definitly go to a DR.. It will look like splotchy bumps and it will hurt like hell- it will spread so try not to itch just like chicken pocks- I wish you better luck than i had with it.
Paul asks…
can a 16 yr old or anyone who already had chickenpox get shingles from someone w/ shingles or chickenpox?
or from someone who just now “got over” chickenpox? or from someone who does not have blisters from shingles, but still has lingering pain from just “getting over” the rash stage of shingles?
admin answers:
Yes you can. The virus that causes chicken pox can become shingles in a person who has had chicken pox when they were a child.
Jenny asks…
Can adults who’ve had chicken pox develop shingles if they come into contact with a child who has chicken pox?
My daughter is in the contageous stages of chicken pox and I’m meant to be visiting my grandparents this afternoon. They are concerned that they might catch shingles. Is this something that can actually happen?
admin answers:
The answer is NO. If you have had chicken pox as a child then you are immune to re-infection. However, you can develop shingles simply because you have had a prior infection with chicken pox as a child. The fact that you are exposed will not mean that you will get shingles, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get shingles. It would just be a very unlikely coincidence.
That is a great question by-the-way.
Also, note that people who have had chicken pox as a child can develop multiple episodes of shingles due to the dormancy of the virus in the nerves in a single dermatome. Re-infection due to re-exposure would not explain why people who get repeated episodes of shingles have the distribution within the same dermatome (look this up), because the virus does not ‘know’ to go to the same place everytime. However, a dormant virus in nerve endings explains this. Shingles can come about due to stress, among other things and is not too much unlike a dormant Herpes virus.
Donald asks…
If my only risky behavior was kissing should i stop worrying?
please help im having a panic attack. i made out 2 months ago with someone who i later found out has some behaviors that make them higher risk for hiv. i know there is a theoretical risk of passing it this way, but this is my only risk other than one other sexual experience 5 years ago with a virgin girlfriend. I know believe i have the beginning stages of shingles which is very rare in non hiv patients my age (im 22). i cant stop researching the internet and panicking i must have already spent like 20 hours online. Im to worried to get the test i cant do it i even went to the clinic but backed out. what should i do?
admin answers:
Its reallllllllllly hard to get HIV from kissing, even if you were trying to contract it.
But you really shouldnt be afraid to get the test. The only reason magic johnson is still alive is because he caught it early and started taking the meds as soon as he found out.
THEORETICALLY if you had it, the longer you waited the worse it would be for you, so you should get tested because IF you did contract it you would be doing yourself a favor by treating yourself.
Hopefully you had no open sores in your mouth and neither did they.
But still, you dont even know if they have it, so stop worrying and just get tested to put your mind at ease.
Richard asks…
yeah but shes not broke out?
it says
the time prior to healing or crusting of the blisters is the contagious stage of shingles. Once all of the blisters are crusted over, the virus can no longer be spread.
so if its not doing this she cant spread it right? thats what the website says.
shes not broke out she can feel it in her body,,the pain she get before she breaks out. and she wont break out now because she took valtrex
admin answers:
Doesn’t the commerical state that you can still spread the virus even if you have no signs of an outbreak? Valtrex only helps stop the spreading of it.
I don’t know exactly what your talking about though…
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