re: Shingles- Tell me your stories of this illness

Yeah it started off feeling like I was get a hot spot, like something was rubbing my raw but there wasn’t any seems or anything on my shirt.

Eventually the rash broke out.

It sucks.but I got In the antiviral pretty quickly.

I was Only like 28. Stress man.

It’s actually the level of pain I would Wish on my worst enemies. Nothing lethal but not fun at all.

Felt like my skin was rippin in piece. Had it when abt 25, left side torso, kept scars for 5-6 yrs after.

be lucky you get shingles and not bells palsy from the old chicken pox/measles.

Dude i worked with went home from work, woke up next morning and the left side of his face froze. His wife would tape his left eye close so he could sleep. His mouth was half froze, half working. All happened over night.

I had shingles in my optic nerve. For about a month before they showed, I had a constant headache. I thought it was toothache, then hangover, or maybe I needed glasses. Literally a month went by with me slowly trying to diagnose myself (I was 24 so no hurry to go to the dr).

I was only married for a month and we were attending my wife's cousin's wedding in Canada when all hell broke loose. It got so bad that I finally told her that I think I have a brain tumor. Of course she freaked. I got so sick that I spent all night in the hotel room while the reception went on at the same hotel. The next morning we boarded a plane back home. I went to the doctor the day after that in pain and seeing my face (eye) swell and look like an explosion of pain.

3 days later I ended up in the emergency room and finally got some stronger drugs than the ultram the first doctor gave me. I spent a little over a week in basically a shingles induced coma with the pain putting me out. Fast forward 21 years and that eye has reduced eyesite and an astigmatism and when it gets cold, I can still feel the welps. And when I'm tired or stressed, that eye will get 'angry'.

If I ever get them again, I'm gonna use my own prescription signed by dr glock.

Had them under my arms. Hurt like a son of a mother!

Yes. It felt like a sunburn before rash appeared. I was 17 years old.

....had it right in the middle of my right butt of all places. Developed a skin blister that hurt like heck. Went to the doctor right away. Put me on medication. Couldn't even stand to have a bedsheet lay on the thing. Imagine me laying on my stomach with my buttocks exposed. Laid up for two weeks.

Thought about getting the Shingles vaccine but I had such a terrible experience with the thing I'm afraid it might trigger another attack. No way I want to go through that again. I now have a permenant pimple like scar on might right butt to remind me of the agony.

As bad as I had it doesn't compare to my Dad's case. Came in the form of an ugly rash on the right side of his face, completely circled and in his right eye. He was in his late eighties when he came down with it. Poor Dad. That poor man suffered terrible. But luckily it went away with no residual effect.

Shingles is bad.

My mom had them really bad during her pregnancy with me. Her entire back was covered and still has a lot of scaring still today.

She said it was like her skin was burning. The doctor's said the pregnancy caused the nerves to activate the dormant shingles.

I never knew what it was til bout 7 yrs ago and got it. My forehead and left eye. YOU DONT WANT IT IN YOUR EYE !!!!!!!!

Shingles is a form of herpes.