Shingles/chickenpox anyone?

[USMA65]

I did wake up with the dog, but I knew this was not flea bites. It’s not just on one side of my body and it doesn’t burn or hurt. It itches a little bit, but not bad. About 1/3 of my spots now have little blisters, but they’re not red like a painful pimple with pus.

I think I know what he’s gonna tell me tomorrow. I just hope that my two days of meds that I’ve taken would have been the same either way. Thanks.

What did your doctor decide, if you do not mind sharing?

["G"]

How did things go today ?

[rcfillingham]

My dad had shingles infect his right eye 10 years ago! Can affect your sight and predispose you to glaucoma later in life. He was lucky and made a full recovery! I still remember when my brother Ray came down with chicken pox in the mid 1960’s my mom and her sisters in law had all the cousins over to make sure everyone got it and got over it that summer! She said many farm families did that.


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[GoTennTitans]

What did your doctor decide, if you do not mind sharing?

Last night, my wife bought me a bar of oatmeal soap and I used it just before bed. It was nice; just abrasive enough. Then she put sandwich bags on her hands and rubbed me down with calamine lotion. I looked like something from a haunted house!

Musta worked because this morning, I had no new spots and almost no new blisters. No pain and very little itch. So I called the clinic and waited for my doctor to call me back.......his nurse called and I told her what I’ve just posted above here and she called me back later and said to come in Monday if I was worse. Otherwise, she said the meds, soap, and lotion seemed to be working.

My mom is in the hospital and I’ve been really worried about her and I also lost a high school classmate this week, so this might be stress related and may not even be shingles or chickenpox. I’m expecting to be much better tomorrow. Thanks to you all and if this applies, tell your parents, kids, spouses, and friends that you love them. We are not guaranteed tomorrow.

[Ketchn]

there is another thing out there not mentioned that acts like chicken pox , it typically effects kids .
I cant remember the name of it right now but one of my daughters had it and its a lesser known mimic .
it seems to crop up late in the day and be gone in the morning and does it several days in a row .
you would swear its chicken pox until you wake up and its gone
then here it comes again late in the day the next day
the rash tends to be on the torso though and not on the head and scalp .
head and scalp rashes tend to be chicken pox
but then again I am not a doctor ,but my grandpa was
my 2 cents

[GoTennTitans]

I think I’m all good today. No new spots and the original ones are fading and dry & scaley. Never thought I would be so glad to have dandruff!!!! Oh yes, they call me Big Sexy.

[GreenLine]

No way you had shingles. You would know.
The pain of the blisters is really bad. Like you are on fire.
There is also strange nerve pain down in the muscles below the spots.
Glad you posted this tho. I need to go get the shingles vaccine.
I don’t want to catch it again


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[USMA65]

I think I’m all good today. No new spots and the original ones are fading and dry & scaley. Never thought I would be so glad to have dandruff!!!! Oh yes, they call me Big Sexy.

Don't let the dog sleep with you again. ;-)

["G"]

Don't let the dog sleep with you again. ;-)

Lol....yeh....he has the mange

[USMA65]

Lol....yeh....he has the mange

Funny, but no. He has classic presentation, history and outcome for insect bites, probably from the dog. All of this determined by his words, not mine. Listening to a patient often allows a doctor to diagnose, or get a pretty good idea, what the problem is. Shingles would have never been a consideration by anyone who knew anything about how shingles classically presents itself. He woke up with a dog, who the patient is convinced is flea free. I have had dogs that I treated with flea preventative and they still got fleas. A dog can be treated and flea free, can go outside for five minutes, pick up fleas, sleep with you, and those same fleas can feast on you, or the dog. If the latter, they will die because of the treatment. If they feast on you, you will exhibit bites that itch, swell and sometimes fester. In this case the fleas will not die unless TN Titan has been treated ;-) , but they will develop a bad case of the uglyies .
Y'all saw his picture .......a face only a mother would love