Shingles

[tech/a]

Got the tablets (2 nd day) this is day 4.
Any hints.
Dont feel to bad --- at work.
I'll rest over Easter.

 

[Julia]

Commiserations, Tech. Level of pain is often influenced by the site.
Where do you have it?
If the itching gets bad, "Zostrix" (from pharmacy) is helpful. Made from capsaicin so keep it away from sensitive areas like eyes.

Rest is good. It usually occurs in, um, over-stressed individuals.
Get well soon. It's a very unpleasant disease.

 

[Sean K]

You must have an old house.

I suggest you get a roofer in to fix those instead of taking any SA witchdoctor medicine.

All the best.

kennas

 

[tech/a]

Commiserations, Tech. Level of pain is often influenced by the site.
Where do you have it?
If the itching gets bad, "Zostrix" (from pharmacy) is helpful. Made from capsaicin so keep it away from sensitive areas like eyes.

Rest is good. It usually occurs in, um, over-stressed individuals.
Get well soon. It's a very unpleasant disease.

Kenna's actually you are right the roof IS shingles!!

Thanks Julia.
I'll get the Zostrix.
Had a talk to the Doc about the stress thing and he tells me that if you have ever had Chicken pox (Which I did 52 yrs ago) the virus remains dormant and can be triggered by coming in contact with anyone who has shingles or Chicken pox. You dont have to be stressed. Can happen more than once to anyone.

If anything I'm more mellow now than ever as for the last 2 mths I have been riding my bike to work and home again 4 days a week,an hr each way and stopped smoking,took pills for that too.

Perhaps its the pills!

 

[kincella]

I knew an old bloke, he had the chronic form of shingles....he used to say that tomatoe sauce sent it off...if he did not consume the tomatoe he was fine...but he was a heavy drinker, and ate all the wrong kind of food, and come footy season had the pie with sauce....
that was 20 years ago...who knows what he had wrong with him then....
I thought shingles was an 'old fashioned disease'...hardly heard about myself

cheer up, its just another of lifes hurdles you have to overcome....

two items you should keep in the first aid kit at all times...

****calamine lotion ....for when all else fails, it does give some relief

I also keep a supply of *** xylocaine ointment 5 or 10%...it can be used for relief from itching etc...it acts as a local anaesthetic, an excellent blocker for pain...whether cuts, burns all those things that happen around the home,
its a pharmacy only item...its not on the shelves...you need to ask the pharmicist for it....about $25 but you only need a tiny amount

 

[Prospector]

The stress issue is spot on; dont dismiss it. Also, without being alarmist, shingles rears its ugly head when your immune system is compromised; and it is well known to appear when cancer rears its head. So any unusual symptoms, get them sorted.

Kincella, I think the lotions and stuff are good for chicken pox but not shingles. The itch is actually along the nerve pathways and calamine cant get to it.

 

[tech/a]

The stress issue is spot on; dont dismiss it. Also, without being alarmist, shingles rears its ugly head when your immune system is compromised; and it is well known to appear when cancer rears its head. So any unusual symptoms, get them sorted.

Kincella, I think the lotions and stuff are good for chicken pox but not shingles. The itch is actually along the nerve pathways and calamine cant get to it.

Well I must be in denial.

Happy as larry with home---married to the best girl in Adelaide!
Busy as hell at work but no pressure thats abnormal.
No $ or kids problems.
I sleep like a log.
Have no problems swithing off---as soon as I ride out the gate!
Ride 120K a week on the bike.

Hey I'd be the first to take a month off if I didnt even need it.
Thats why I asked the quack.

Is there a way of finding out if I'm going internally biserk and dont know it?

 

[sam76]

What the %$&* is shingles?

Sounds like a nickname for an STD.

 

[tech/a]

I can tell you its a shocker.

Makes your skin like a roof and at least your water proof.
Doesnt do a great deal for your social life.

 

[Prospector]

In denial then!

No need to worry, although at your age (ahem) some of those less pleasant tests associated with men in particular, and everyone over 50, might be in order. Women have to have these tests from teenage years onwards, so glad they invented a similar test for older men!

I gather you have received the treatment from the Doctor then? All the best, it really is a very painful condition. They say the face is the worse.

 

[sam76]

i think blood test are ok these days for prostates




unless, of course, you prefer the 'other way' that is

 

[Prospector]

i think blood test are ok these days for prostates
unless, of course, you prefer the 'other way' that is

Oh, I definately recommend TechA has both this time!

 

[sam76]

let's hope he wears a glove!

 

[kincella]

prospector...fair enuff....but I have a problem with my immune system, those two items are the only things that work for me most times....everything else can be just an expensive waste of time.....
when the immune system breaks down...it creates havoc...nothing works like its supposed to for the healthy people....
the body attacks itself... that sounds funny
....its scleroderma....took 10 years to get the correct diagnosis, then I was supposed to be dead about 5 years ago....
the doctors dont know enough about it......
at one stage...it was a test or another specialist every 2nd month....
then they found I had TB at some earlier stage...evidenced by the xrays...
they found a few different things, that did not concern me...then a chinese doctor just listened to my symtoms...and told me what I had..followed up with correct tests to confirm it...
most of all...I become allergic to something new every 6 months or so....
but hey, survived so far...think I have another 30 years to go
cheers

 

[Happy]

Prostate cancer can be found in PSA blood test

Until recently it was suggested that bike riders are at higher risk of getting it but it was scientifically dismissed, so every bloke has the same chance of getting it except for those with family history.

 

[tech/a]

Aw thanks for the concern.

Done all the tests both blood and otherwise.
Infact had every test imaginable back in Jan.
All good.One of the reasons I dont feel like death.
If I didnt have the sensitivity I wouldnt know I had it!

 

[seasprite]

haven't had it myself , but flax seed tablets are good for everything , contains essential fatty acids , omega 3, 6 and 9 . There is bound to be a website to confirm this .

 

[Prospector]

the body attacks itself... that sounds funny
....its scleroderma....took 10 years to get the correct diagnosis, then I was supposed to be dead about 5 years ago....

As in auto-immune illness? I have one of those - and as a result I have no thyroid function at all. Yours sounds way worse though!

Aw shucks TA, you sure you dont need to get them all done again? Maybe it was the shock of having the tests that gave you the stress!

My partner asked the Doc if he bit his nails. Hmmm...

 

[jackson8]

What the %$&* is shingles?

Sounds like a nickname for an STD.

its a reactivation of the chicken pox virus in your system

if you had chicken pox as a child you may be prone to shingles in later life

a link below
http://webferret.search.com/click?wf,what+are+shingles,2,www.shingles.me.uk%2F,,entireweb

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Sorry to hear about the Shingles, tech.

Never had it but heard its bloody awful.

Take care.

gg