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Shingles.
« on: February 13, 2004, 12:39:35 PM »
Wonderful.

Not happy :-(

(Shingles is the adult new and improved edition of chicken pox)
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2004, 01:15:35 PM »
I've been prescribed something called 'famvir', plus some anti-biotic cream.

This feels like running through stinging nettles three times a day, and I've got it on my hip, so major clothes chafing :-(

6 - 7 week treatment still though :-(

Though the tablets are only for one week, so maybe it calms down after the first week... fingers crossed :-)
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2004, 02:07:47 PM »
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anti-biotic cream

But it's a Virus!?!?

But not like mydoom.  I haven't been accepting post with green vapour coming off of it :-D
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2004, 08:53:37 PM »
Hey, I live in the UK.  We don't have to directly pay (full price) for prescriptions, so ner! :-D
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2004, 09:06:27 PM »
A URL I found on the subject

Nearly all my family have had it.  I remember one of my brothers having it all over his upper chest.  It looks like a number of really angry red blotches, like someone diving naked into a field of stinging nettles (feels like it too).

The red blotches are open sores of sorts.  Advertising for other bugs to come and infect the body.

Other than the pain and blotches, I haven't noticed any other symptoms.  I had a headache, but down to the frequent needling sort of pain from the blotches.
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2004, 07:48:23 PM »
On a happy note, within one week of medication, it's already starting to die down! Yay!

I'm sure it'll linger for quite a while longer, but hopefully I'm over the worst of it already.

One of the few occasions I hail modern medicine... creating something that cures a problem rather than trying to cover it up.

Me happy :-)
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2004, 08:43:58 PM »
Funnily enough except for the sores and related pain, I don't feel any other symptoms.  Maybe occasional grogginess, but nothing serious.
 

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Re: Shingles.
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2004, 09:24:53 PM »
@ JaXanim

A bit of info to back that up perhaps - the sores from my shinges didn't hurt or look half as angry when I had pads covering them up as they did when open.