Please come talk to me about your experience with shingles. Lucky me, I've got it :(
It started with odd low back pain last Monday evening. Pain in my low back and right hip. Achy and pinching and yucky. Really crappy night. More of the same Tues and Tues night. Weds morning noticed an odd blustery rash on my low back. Thought I'd burned myself with the hot pack.
Went on a short family holiday Weds to Sunday. Back ache, yucky burning pain in my hip, bloody awful itching all over my right hip. Lymph nodes in groin swollen and painful. WTF? I finally put it together when I asked DH to look at the rash on my back again and he said "hmmm... it looks exactly like when you got those fever blisters on your cheek last year" (baaaaad cold sore outbreak on my lip/ cheek last Sept).
Fuck. What if its shingles???
Got home Sun night, begged to be seen by GP this morning. Yup. Shingles. Massive prescription for acyclovir. Seeing her again Thurs.
So. Tell me about shingles. How long does the rash last? How long does it hurt?
I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself right now. :(
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Talk to me about shingles. Because I've fucking got it :(
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Jacksmania · 02/10/2012 04:26
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