just sayin'
(desperately attempting to refrain from madly scratching head)
Shingles suck
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a1mamacat
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Shingles suck
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silvercamaro
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Re: Shingles suck
Greatest sympathies, Saucy. You have my permission to say it with as many swear words as you may wish to add. I hope you will start to feel better quickly!
Signed, a former victim who swore a lot
Signed, a former victim who swore a lot
Now generating the White Hot Glare of Righteousness on behalf of BBs everywhere.
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ghostjmf
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Re: Shingles suck
There's anti-viral stuff they can give you to lessen the attack, but only when diagnosed early.
I won't give you my sister's horror story 'cause hopefully your case will be less severe. My sympathies are with you.
I asked my doc for the vaccine, even though I'm avoiding vaccines because think one triggered my horrific skin condition, only to be told insurance wouldn't pay because "I wasn't old enough" (like the virus celebrated birthdays or something). Now I'm old enough.
I won't give you my sister's horror story 'cause hopefully your case will be less severe. My sympathies are with you.
I asked my doc for the vaccine, even though I'm avoiding vaccines because think one triggered my horrific skin condition, only to be told insurance wouldn't pay because "I wasn't old enough" (like the virus celebrated birthdays or something). Now I'm old enough.
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Spock
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Re: Shingles suck
Ouch, sympathies.
A friend, who is very accident-prone, said Shingles was far worse pain than any of his other major injuries.
A friend, who is very accident-prone, said Shingles was far worse pain than any of his other major injuries.
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BackInTex
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Re: Shingles suck
Much sympathy (though not really understanding the full misery) from here. My wife had a bout with them when pregnant with our youngest. Was not a fun time. Hang in there.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Shingles suck
After I had a shingles outbreak I asked my doctor if the vaccine would help in the future and he said it wouldn't
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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TheCalvinator24
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Re: Shingles suck
Yes, yes they do.
And I had a blessedly mild outbreak.
Also, as some might recall, my shingles were diagnosed on the Bored.
And I had a blessedly mild outbreak.
Also, as some might recall, my shingles were diagnosed on the Bored.
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore
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ghostjmf
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Re: Shingles suck
My sister diagnosed hers herself only to have a doctor she was taking my cousin to look at them & say "not like shingles enough". She went to another doctor but that wrong diagnosis delayed her, & with shingles time in getting the anti-viral agent to work is essential.
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Bob Juch
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Re: Shingles suck
Under my BCBS insurance vaccines are free.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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lilclyde54
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Re: Shingles suck
The Baboo suffered through a bout of shingles about six months ago. The biggest danger for her was that one outbreak was pretty close to her right eye and both her regular doctor and the eye doctor he referred her to worried about that a lot. Luckily, prompt action kept things from being really awful.
I felt the change
Time meant nothing and never would again
Time meant nothing and never would again