Discussion:Sea be sick I miss you guys

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

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.

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

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

If you'll notice, these new age drug pushers are dressed to kill. One drug lady I passed in my doctor's office was carrying a handbag that was worth more than my car. Then again, I've never met a con man that wasn't well dressed (or thought he was, anyway).

No sir. Give me a witchdoctor any day. If you're still in Florida, drive down to Miami and put the word out for a voodoo priest. They treat like with like, so she'll probably have a chicken dance the Macarena over where your lesions were, and that will be the end of it. When you get back home, find one of the voodoo pharmacies online, and start keeping the spirits away so you won't be bothered in the future.

I don't understand the vaccination tho - if you've had shingles, you still need to get it? Meaning that you have to get it yearly, just like the flu vaccination? Don't know why I thought it would be a one-time thing.

Paula - now you have me scared. My family stories tell of my Mom sending me off to play with all the kids with chicken pox so I would get it; but I never did come down with case of them. Supposedly. But with your story, perhaps I did have a light case. Guess I better start looking for that vaccination before tax season gets here.

Death&Taxes - that is a great monologue. Do you think the stress from Ms. Lazlo brought on your medical event? (Of all the accounting firms in all the towns in all the world, she had to walk into yours . . .)

And BTW, I know that when I was growing up, people did what your mom did so they could "plan" for the eventual illnesses on their own terms. When my son was little, I think people still did, but we had a babysitter who starting watching him when he was about 2 and the family was still mourning the loss of their little six year old daughter. She contracted chicken pox and died from encephalitis, which is a complication of the disease. I decided right then that any vaccination I could get him was worth way more to me than losing him. I think of that every time I hear a parent panning the need for vaccinations for kids nowadays.

I cant stand the pain sometimes even with the drugs. i wear pj bottoms to my office as they are loose, a top that does not touch my skin and writhe in pain when a breeze touches me. both of my hands fall asleep due to the drugs but they help me sleep somewhat.

get vaccinated is what I tell everyone if you can. I started having back pain, I walked 2 miles a day at night so I thought I had a pulled muscle. Then 4 days later I was vomiting and the pain went to my belly straight through my back, but only on my right side. Went to a walk in medical center and they thought it was a kidney stone. Put me on muscle relaxers, oxycodone and said it would pass. 2 days later I had a rash only on my right side. Went back for more drugs; the pain was not better and I didn't pass anything that I could see at least. Gave me a few more drugs and said they did not know what was wrong with me.

2 days later I had raised bumps on my tummy and back. Still to this day I only got 5 of them. they itched but the pain was inside my body. went to new doctor she looked and said it is shingles. Put me on antivirals. every four hours around the clock for 10 days. she scared me if I missed a dose, the virus could attack another nerve. It is one nerve and only one side of my body but since it did not go away, it is the PHN. I am weak as a kitten, can't wear clothes to speak of ....hehehe by bf likes that one but even having the bedsheet touch me is horrible pain

yes shingles can come back but only in a small % of persons, so no need to get vaccinated now she says. but if you have had chickenpox in your life you can get shingles. wherever it leaves your skin it attaches to the spinal cord and comes back in that place. the shooting pain makes me scream. here i had 8 children and labor has nothing on this.

gabapentin is a life saver along with oxycodone and ambien. please get vaccinated if over 60

you guys are the bestest