Discussion:Sea be sick I miss you guys
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| {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=CPASue|Date=27 October 2009|Text=It is true that shingles starts/feels like chicken pox but what Sandy is dealing with is nothing like chicken pox. So oatmeal baths are not the solution. Once the scabs/pox go away, you are left with excruciating pain from nerve damage. So while you while you look like you are over it, it is a long haul back. My thought are with her and all shingle sufferers.}} | {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=CPASue|Date=27 October 2009|Text=It is true that shingles starts/feels like chicken pox but what Sandy is dealing with is nothing like chicken pox. So oatmeal baths are not the solution. Once the scabs/pox go away, you are left with excruciating pain from nerve damage. So while you while you look like you are over it, it is a long haul back. My thought are with her and all shingle sufferers.}} | ||
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| 26 October 2009 | |
| Hey all
What a roller coaster this year. My thanks to all and my missing fun times I am a youngster (well not really) but have been suffering from what we think is old age disease...I have shingles and believe me when David Letterman says it hurts more than bleep, bleep bleep. I am trying to work and also am trying to reduce stress....doctor says that stress is number one cause of shingles in my age group. Drugs are a blessed relief but of course also reduce your thinking somewhat. Percocet, ambien, neurontin and flexiril all make it a bit hard to concentrate but I want you to know that when this goes away (she promises me it will...could be weeks, already done that...could be months....into that now....could be years...NO WAY) I will be back. Miss you guys! And whining to boot, no? Sandy | |
| 26 October 2009 | |
| Hi Sandy, a lot of my older (55+) clients have been getting this. I think there is even a vaccine out now to reduce the chances of getting it. I hear it is awful. Every hear of an oatmeal bath? | |
| 26 October 2009 | |
| Get well soon, Sandy! Be sure to drop by when your desperate for comic relief. We got here plenty to spare.
Speaking of which - our shed needed to be re-shingled. So I decided to DIU it. I was half-way thru when I lifted a bundle. Wham!! I was a out for a month with a pulled back. I was hobbling like a really old man and I had to listen to DW, who had recommended that I get a handy man to do it. | |
| 26 October 2009 | |
| wow kevin...older? I am 51 years young come Jan. me thinks you are a baby.
the pain is not from the shingles themselves but the nerve pain. shingles are gone almost now they say post herpetic neuropathy i say go away shingles...heard a joke about it with bubba and shingles like PA said vaccine is for those 60 and older more prevalent now in younger generations | |
| 26 October 2009 | |
| Never had shingles...I understand that they are a later manifestation of chicken ox? Anyway, I second the recommendation of the oatmeal bath. I had hives for eight long months. Avenu made the oatmeal bath "salts" but there are generics out there, too. Very ssothing. | |
Actionbsns (talk|edits) said: | 27 October 2009 |
| Sandy, my sympathies. I contracted shingles earlier this year just as the tax season was starting. Doctor prescribed Gabopentin, which is a medication specifically for the nerve problems associated with shingles. You're right they are incredibly painful, mine lasted about three months and I'm afraid there is some residual nerve damage in a couple spots - more of an annoyance than anything else. But I did insist on getting the vaccination Kevin mentioned - I never want to deal with that again. They are a result of chicken pox as NMex says, but the amazing thing is my mom always told me I never had them. I know in my memory that I never had them, but I guess when I was a baby my brothers brought them home. The doctor said I probably just had a very light case and it could have been misconstrued by a mother as teething or something at the time. Anyway, good luck, and at least it's not tax season. I think one of the hardest things to do was take a medication that you know affects your ability to concentrate, then try to compensate for it. It's really tiring. | |
| 27 October 2009 | |
| Yeah action neurontin is the gabapentin. very loopy headed and the nerve pain is what hurts. stress brings the pox back dr says but me too never want it again | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 27 October 2009 |
| "doctor says that stress" With the clients you write about, I wonder why!!!!!
Get better, kid. I think I was 58, and in the fall of that year after the death of my wife in June, I came down with what a nurse friend termed Non-STD Herpes, which she said was quite common. She mentioned that the first onset of it would be the worst. But it did allow me to write one of my all-time favorite monologues, The Procrastinator's Ball. http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/264537-THE-PROCRASTINATORS-BALL | |
| 27 October 2009 | |
| It is true that shingles starts/feels like chicken pox but what Sandy is dealing with is nothing like chicken pox. So oatmeal baths are not the solution. Once the scabs/pox go away, you are left with excruciating pain from nerve damage. So while you while you look like you are over it, it is a long haul back. My thought are with her and all shingle sufferers. | |
| 28 October 2009 | |
| So sorry to hear about this, Sandy. My mother had it when she was younger than I am now, and it certainly was miserable. Must remember to get that vaccination! | |
