if you have had the chicken pox, the shingles virus is already inside you. call your doctor if you have a rash that feels that some one lit it on fire
The average bundle of shingles weighs 70 pounds.
It's essential to know what shingles look like that way you will be able to know if you ever have them. Google has a lot of photos on mild cases of the shingles. You can also ask your doctor to show you some photos right in the office.
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The shingles on my roof are beginning to wear out. Do you know where the best place to buy roof shigles is?
No. Shingles is not contagious, but someone with shingles can give chicken pox or varicella to someone who has not had chicken pox before.
No, shingles comes from the Chicken Pox virus. If you have had Chicken Pox in your lifetime then you can get shingles at most anytime, it usually develops in your old age tho. I'm HIV positive since 1990 and have had Chicken Pox as a child. shingles was considered a opportunistic infection of HIV and I have already had shingles when I was in my 30's.
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No. You only get shingles's if you have had chickenpox. No chickenpox no shingles's.
Shingles vaccine protects you from the shingles for few years only.
Shingles of the gums is a very painful condition and many professionals don't even know it exits as I found out today at my Dr's office. The nurse practitioner told me, after I told her that I thought I have Shingles of the Gums, that you can't get Shingles of the gums. The herpes zoster virus can climb up the spine to the trigeminal nerve causing painful gums.
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 take the shingles shot while having shingles