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You can only get shingles if you had chickenpox in the past. The virus stays in your body for life, and can be reactivated in the future to cause shingles. You don't need a second exposure to chickenpox in order to get shingles.
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∙ 14y agoI have had a condition since December. Starting with itching which drove me mad for months and then it turned to burning under my arms which I still have. Now I have really bad nerve pain in my buttocks on one side which some times prevents me from sitting . My Doctor keeps telling me it is not shingles even though I feel it is a form of it without the blisters. My homeopath also does not think it is shingles but I know my own body best and I feel it is, the pain is very bad at the moment and I feel maybe blisters will break out soon it has made me very low and tired trying to cope with it all. I would like to be able to say to both the doctors I told you so. I have heard of a condition called Zoster sine herpete which sounds like what I have. Helen
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Where around the world is shingles found?
There is no out break for shingles as such. The disease is common through out the world.
Can having old mercury filling replaced cause shingles?
The replacement of a silver-mercury amalgam or filling has absolutely nothing to do with having the shingles. Shingles is an outbreak, usually in later life, caused by the chicken pox virus. Only those who have had chicken pox can break out in shingles.
Can shingles go down the leg?
Shingles can break out along the pathway of any nerve. Anyone who had chicken pox as a child has the virus in their bodies. Later, as an adult, the virus can become active, causing a breakout along a nerve or nerves. Shingles is extremely painful to endure.
Does Shingles stay inward and never break out My husband is having pain under left rib and down side. Ct scan did not show any problem. Pain no better..no breaking out Is this like shingles?
Shingles develop in 3 stages. First, a deep pain as if caused by injury, but you were not injured. Second, stabbing pain which comes and goes. This kind of pain is specific to shingles, very unlike throbing pain which is continuous. If you take medication early you can stop the progress of the illness, otherwise blisters break out.
The side of your thigh feels bruised but it is not what is wrong?
It could be shingles. If so, you will break out with very painful sores like chicken pox in a day or two. Although it's rare to break out there, it happened to me.
Is shingles contagious before the rash breaks out?
Shingles cannot be transmitted from person to person but the chicken box virus that causes shingles can be passed on to someone who has never contracted the shingles virus before. When the shingles rash has developed it is contagious but is not likely to be passed to another person if it is covered up.
Can you get shingles from shingles if you have had shingles before?
No. Shingles is not contagious, but someone with shingles can give chicken pox or varicella to someone who has not had chicken pox before.
What is shingles in Spanish?
Shingles
Can one pimple be shingles?
No. You only get shingles's if you have had chickenpox. No chickenpox no shingles's.
Will the shingles vaccine protect you from ever getting shingles?
Shingles vaccine protects you from the shingles for few years only.
Can you get the shingles vaccine after having shingles?
You could get the vaccine if you already had shingles; but it may not help you from recurrence of zoster, which by the way is less than 5%. If it does recur, the vaccine may help you.
Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?
Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.
