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What does shingles feel like really?
I’ve got flu like symptoms, but my lower back is killing me so is my legs but i’ve got a God awful rotten taste in my mouth. This may sound daft but it tastes like artificial spray snow, those cans of spray snow you use for frosting your windows at christmas time. Its horrible acrid and just nasty. If the flu symptoms and the rotten taste in your mouth indicative of Shingles?
Shingles can only occur if you’ve already had chicken pox. This is because it is the same virus which is reactivated (usually by stress, immunocompromised states).
Shingles is characterised by a dermatomal distribution of pain. This bascially means it affects a strip of your skin. There is usually pain in this area before you get the ’spots’. Shingles most commonly affects you chest area or a region of your face.
The only definitive thing I can say is that if you’ve never had chickenpox you can’t have shingles. My advice would be to visit your doctor/dermatologist who are most qualified to make a decision.
Hope that helps.
when i got shingles it was bad spot middle of back and was really painful doctor gave me cream and tablets, when my dialysis
is low then i get shingles he says when immune system is low
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had it hurt like hell
Believe me, if you get shingles you will know it. First off, it is a relative of the chicken pox virus, so if you haven’t had that you wont get shingles.
I got it a few years ago and believe me it was agony. Think about a red rash on your body comprising tiny blisters all hurting like hell and incredibly painful if touched… then double it because they hurt like hell if you dont touch them either. It got so bad for me I was on morphine to deal with the pain.
Trust me, if you can log on and ask the question, you don’t have it.
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Personal painful experience
shingles is a blistery rash running in a line around your body halfway and itis so painful i didnt sleep for a week with it,the blisters then turn to scabs, got shingles just flu
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Shingles is the Herpes zoster virus, which is an inflammatory virus of one of the spine ganglion or trigeminal nerves.
Sometimes its appearance is due to the re-activation of the chicken-pox virus which lies latent in the sensory nerves and has been present from childhood. It may also be contracted through direct contact with the burst blisters from another sufferer that are its main symptom. The blisters usually appear on one side of the body, along the nerve affected, and are small raised pustules that are itchy. Other symptoms include a fever of two to four days and pain down the associated nerve, usually lower back, leg and sometimes hip and is similar to sciatica in feeling.
Go to your GP immediately if you think you may have shingles.
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Personal and professional experience
Shingles…it’s what Sean Connery says when he tries to say ’singles’ !!! As he famously said in a James Bond movie ‘ I’m shingle and available any time you are babe’…
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jack the Kipper..told me..Officer Dibble…
Shingles can only occur if you’ve already had chicken pox. This is because it is the same virus which is reactivated (usually by stress, immunocompromised states).
Shingles is characterised by a dermatomal distribution of pain. This bascially means it affects a strip of your skin. There is usually pain in this area before you get the ’spots’. Shingles most commonly affects you chest area or a region of your face.
The only definitive thing I can say is that if you’ve never had chickenpox you can’t have shingles. My advice would be to visit your doctor/dermatologist who are most qualified to make a decision.
Hope that helps.
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