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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Fiero on Jul 05, 2011, 05:55:55 PM

Title: Shingles
Post by: Fiero on Jul 05, 2011, 05:55:55 PM

And they're not on the damn roof.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: The D on Jul 05, 2011, 07:49:08 PM

some aren't.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Jul 05, 2011, 08:56:16 PM

I especially have to watch out for it, as I've never had chickenpox aside from one or two sores the doctor told me weren't enough for immunization.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: B E C K on Jul 05, 2011, 09:26:44 PM

Mmm, Pringles.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Fiero on Jul 05, 2011, 10:22:07 PM

Yeah, those are more pleasant than this, I assure you.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: joe on Jul 05, 2011, 11:32:00 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Herpes zoster sounds like an anime villain.

Kinda looks like Braille. Get a blind person to read that shit for you.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2011, 12:25:46 AM

So what is this anyway, like chicken pox that never goes away?

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Rama on Jul 06, 2011, 12:55:37 AM

You are the first person I've ever known that has had this. I know to some people on your facebook page it is common, but I'v never actually known anyone that's had this so I'm a little curious exactly what it is as well.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: IDE on Jul 06, 2011, 01:02:24 AM

You have shingles?! WTF we're all getting ol...I mean you guys are getting old.  I'm not...but holy shit! Shingles!?

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2011, 12:30:38 PM

It affects the nerves that are in the right side of your face.

It's the same virus that causes chicken pox, but it stays in your system, and whenever certain triggers happen it shows up. Usually its stress or health issues that triggers it. Stress is likely because I'm fucking horrible with my money lately. It actually kind of helps, because I'm fucking broke and now I'm working from home this week so I don't have to spend money on gas.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: gwynn on Jul 06, 2011, 08:27:38 PM

It's basically adult chicken pox, and its worse the later in life you get it.
I had a bad case of the pox and I still have the scars to show for it.
I can only imagine how shitty you must feel Fiero.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: IDE on Jul 06, 2011, 09:29:59 PM

I had a case of asgardian pox when I was wee lad, so there is like zero chance of shingles happening to me even in this mortal form.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: B E C K on Jul 06, 2011, 09:33:41 PM

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It's the same virus that causes chicken pox, but it stays in your system, and whenever certain triggers happen it shows up.

Did you get the virus as a kid, contract chicken pox, and have it stay with you?  Or do you just get the virus as a kid and get shingles later in life?  Or did you get it from the vaccine?

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Fiero on Jul 06, 2011, 10:25:55 PM

According to my doctor, it was chicken pox as a kid, stays in the nerves in your brain, comes back when triggered by stress or health.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: B E C K on Jul 07, 2011, 01:01:50 AM

Suck ass, so it made itself at home there.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Fiero on Jul 07, 2011, 11:13:39 AM

Quote from: B E C K on Jul 07, 2011, 01:01:50 AM

Suck ass, so it made itself at home there.

Yeah, but like a way that it hid itself in the garage that no one ever users for a decade or two, and no one realized it until it came out asking to give awful fucking pain to the landowner, who apparently had no way to refuse.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 13, 2011, 05:40:38 AM

I know that feel, bro

I used to have gastritis, but it'd only appear when I would get stressed out. IT SUCKED, made everything 390239029 times worse
And no, its not about "gases"

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: joe on Jul 13, 2011, 12:59:16 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastritis

It does sound pretty awful.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: Faye Valentine on Jul 14, 2011, 06:56:37 PM

Yeah. I dont know why I got it, probably due to stress ( I was around 12 when I first got it so no alcohol). I dont have it anymore but when I did, it SUCKED. I kept taking pills for it but the doctor had to keep raising the dosage becaue after a couple of weeks I'd "get used to it" . I went all the way up the the highest dosage.

Kids, don't get stressed out in school.

Title: Re: Shingles
Post by: The D on Jul 16, 2011, 04:28:20 PM

Quote from: joerammstein on Jul 13, 2011, 12:59:16 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastritis

It does sound pretty awful.

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The main acute causes are excessive alcohol consumption

HMMMMMMMMMM....