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I am currently in the middle of my second round of shingles. I have extreme pain from my right knee, up through my groin, and over my buttock, and to the middle of my chest on the right side. Any touch, including my underwear, clothes, and bed sheets is very painful. Putting my underwear on and taking it off is agony.
I am contagious so I can't go anywhere near children or the immune compromised.
Fortunately I have access to modern medicine and got a prescription for famcyclovir for the shingles and pregabalin for the nerve pain.
Seriously, get your children vaccinated. If you haven't had chicken pox get yourself vaccinated. If you had chicken pox get the shingles vaccine. If you got the old shingles vaccine get the new shingles vaccine, it's better.
And, most important of all, fuck the antivaxers.
Yup, I've had shingles twice both on my left shoulder and I'm not even 40. On top of that I've developed chronic nerve pain in the same place that was so bad a few years ago i thought it was a heart attack. I've got it managed now after trying half a dozen drugs over 2 years until i found one that worked with minimal side effects.
If all that could have been avoided with a vaccine when i was a kid, I'd hate my parents if they didn't get it for me.
Yeah, thanks to my mom being an anti-vaccer I'm now stuck with shingles for life too. Every ten years it'll crop up again, I've been told. No way to get rid of it once you have it. It'll just hang out in your nerve ends, dormant, and occasionally wake up.
My first bout of shingles was two years ago. Here in Denmark it's called "helvedild", literally translated to "hellfire", an apt name.
Thanks mom.
Do you have access to famcyclovir? If you begin treatment within 72 hours of the onset of symptoms it can stop the outbreak quickly and prevents the postherpatic neuralgia that sometimes happens in older people.
During my first outbreak the doctor said he was going to prescribe acyclovir and that the rash would spread to cover half of my body including my eyes, nose, mouth, genitals, and anus. Fun. I asked what would happen if I didn't take the acyclovir. He said, "The same thing." So the acyclovir does nothing. I asked him to prescribe famcyclovir. He said it was much more expensive than acyclovir but he would prescribe it if I wanted. It cost $200 for the treatment but the blisters didn't spread from the first small patch on my right hip and dried up within a couple of days. Why the hell would I take acyclovir if it does nothing if famcyclovir is available.
This time around the doctor just wrote me the prescription for famcyclovir. I've taken 3 doses so far and the blisters on my thigh seem reduced.