Shingles

yayamark

hello
wasn't feeling well over lastfew days
got a rash on the top of my head not itchy but tender
got a rash, lumps on my neck, above my chest.
got lumps on the back of my neck just where my hair ends
have been feeling really, really tired last few days


so went to the doc he said straight away --Shingles--
he has me on zviorax 5 tabs a day for 7 days

off until mon thought i'd be off until longer but we'll see

anyone else got them or had them
or any info available thanks

Marksie

there you go

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/shingles/shingles.htm

yayamark

i wonder can i pass shingles to anyone else?

tbh

A person with a shingles rash can pass the virus to someone, usually a child, who has never had chickenpox, but the child will develop chickenpox, not shingles. A person with chickenpox cannot communicate shingles to someone else. Shingles comes from the virus hiding inside the person's body, not from an outside source.

From the website MSIE quoted. Interesting, but I still don't know if it's easily communicable - try bio/med forum.

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My flatmate had shingles about two weeks ago.

Same dealio, but his rash was on his back.

He was a bit run down with it, but that was all. Sounds like you caught it in time.

It can be passed to people who haven't had chickenpox, and it becomes chickenpox in them. Once wour rash scabs over, you aren't infectious any more.

You can't pass shingles to people though. It is the chickenpox virus that has hidden in your spine since you had chickenpox, and has re-activated for whatever reason.

It affects the nerves in the spine at the place it has re-activated, and the infection then carries along the nerve to the part of the skin associated with the nerve.

It can cause nerve damage if left untreated, which can lead to pain for months or years afterwards, but as I said, you seem to have caight it in time.

All of this info is widely available on the net.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

yayamark

feeling worse today lumps have now got blisters

WellyJ

yayamark wrote:

feeling worse today lumps have now got blisters

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