re: Who here has had shingles?

I had them on the top of my head. It was the worst pain of my life.

I've had a few home health patients that had it pretty bad. I wonder if the vaccine helps if you get it once the shingles are gone??

I also got these in my 20's around my rib cage, painful frickers.

That was the first time I figured out the greatness of two pain killers followed about 20 minutes later by a good joint.

I've moved on now but remember that buzz well

when you get older and get them, they are a muther fricker.

I was around 20 and had them around my waist for about a month. Could not wear a belt it hurt so bad. Wore sweats for a month to work.

26

I had them when I was 12. Worst experience of my life. All over the left side of my lower torso. My parents should've bought stock in a calamine company.

Do the shingles look like this?

I had them in college before midterms my last year. One of the most painful things I've dealt with (top 3) and I've put this body through hell.

I was prescribed oxycodone for ruptured discs at the same time, and the shingles still hurt like hell. Doc gave me some type if steroid liquid to put on them. That finally helped knock them out.

Luckily I haven't had them since, and thats been about twenty years. So just because you have them @ 26 doesn't mean you will have them often.

They were on the back of my head and down on my neck on one side. I couldn't even lay my head down on a pillow at night to sleep without it hurting like a motherfricker.

I think I ended up sleeping in the recliner until they went away.

Got them when I was 31. Left side of my face and in my ear. Doc said eardrum had already burst once and he could see more on it and it would likely do it again. Some of the worst pain I've ever experienced

I had a mild case at 17. My son had them at 19. Mine felt like a sunburn. His was much worse.