Comments on: You’re Not Too Young for Shingles

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:01:10 +0000

Dorothy,
Go back to your physician see if anything else they can try. This is an awful disease that does not only effect the elderly. I believe you can get the shot to help prevent it from comming back once you have been clear for six months. Again, check with your doctor. God Bless

By: Dorothy Embry

Dorothy Embry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:56:59 +0000

i had shingles two years ago on the right side of my head and face they have healed good but on the right side of my head it itches realy badand there is a numdness also can you help. Dorothy

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:13:02 +0000

i got shingles when i was 15 years old , very young to get them eh but i did. for 3 days straight i threw up , got headachs, and litteraly felt as if i was gonna die. at night my parents rushed me to the hospital and the specialist there said it was nothing…i wonder how he guessed that he didnt even check me properly. 2 days after when the pain got worse i wnt to my family doctor and he told me it was shingles…but it was too late to be treateed now im suffering from it and miss soo much school.

By: karen

karen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:31:38 +0000

Does anyone take any kind of pain meds and for how long. I’m on gabapentin for about 4months now.
Thanks

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:41:41 +0000

Sophie,
I too had this on my face this July. I went on a trip and had I guess a lot of stress and my face hurt again and I felt like it was comming back. Dr put me back on Valtrex and a steroid. I am still haveing pain in my eyebrow all day tingles. Thank God nothing in my eye so far!! Its nice to know it does go away because I am 47 and I am so worried that I will have this pain for the rest of my life. Is there anything you took to help with the tingling?

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:34:03 +0000

I too had the exact same spot of shingles this July.
I am in a relaps, it came back no blisters as yet but the tingle increased and I am back on the valtrex, etc. I am 47 and cannot believe its happened to me either. I am on a hunt to find some type of maybe herbal remedy to help with the nerve tingles.

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:35:15 +0000

I’ve had shingles twice. Most sites on the web claim it’s for those with HIV or those over 50. I was 15 when I had the first bout. Like Sharon, the 2nd round came on the heels of months of sleeping on my infants schedule, family problems, job loss and a yeast infection. I am in my 30’s. I am almost grateful for the experience of the first episode, it enabled me to recognise the symptoms early and get on anti-viral meds within the 42 hours window.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:28:56 +0000

My first bout with shingles came following my first colonoscopy at age 49; more followed my mastectomy after a breast cancer diagnosis that same year. My case is a relatively minor one but still annoying. It’s acting up right now around an incision from my breast reconstruction — almost 9 years later at age 58. My sister has had a much worse case with sores around her back to her breasts that began 4 years ago (when she was 58). Neither of us was old enough to have our insurance cover the preventative vaccine that’s come out (why do you have to be 60+ to use it?? Especially when shingles runs in families, as it does in ours). I’d like to learn more about what if anything can be done to relieve symptoms and to prevent future outbreaks.

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:24:03 +0000

I was lucky to have self diagnosed myself with shingles two days into the beginning of the disease. I told the doctor who examined me, on the third day, that I thought I had shingles because of the symptoms I had the first day (my face was feeling pain and I thought the sun was burning my face because I was in the sun). Blisters started to appear on the second day and the left side of my face, like a band, and it was very painful. The doctor didn’t think that I had shingles but she still sought a second opinion from another doctor. He confirmed that I had shingles and put me on medication. For 3 months, I was constantly hot although the blisters disappear after a month. Could not exercise at all because I would burn up fast and my face would turn red as a tomato. Full recovery took almost four months. I was 31.

By: leslie

leslie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:04:35 +0000

Thank you for your experience with singles. I appreciate knowing that singles cause pain, fatigue and nausa at times. I did not know that one has singles for such length of time. I am now in the sixth week. Often I very tired. I excerise on the treadmill and lifts weights but now I am on hold. Does this “singles” every go away. Leslie, age 66