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CosmicCowboy
05-29-2022, 03:11 PM
Go get a shingles vaccine next week. I put it off and got hit with it last week...all over the left side of my face and scalp. I can honestly say this is some very bad shit....feels like a chemical burn plus random electrical shocks. Virtually impossible to sleep. I have been lucky so far and it hasn't attacked my cornea even though its all over my eye lids etc and the eye is swollen shut. It can cause blindness if it gets in the actual eye itself.
clambake
05-29-2022, 03:17 PM
Damn, that sucks. How long will it last?
CosmicCowboy
05-29-2022, 03:19 PM
Can last a month or more. I went to the doctor in the first 48 hours from the first symptoms so got on antiviral drugs. Hope it helps.
CosmicCowboy
05-29-2022, 03:21 PM
Supposedly advances from the burning and swelling to blisters and then scabs. Not looking forward to my eye and left side of my face being covered in scabs.
clambake
05-29-2022, 03:29 PM
Shit
clambake
05-29-2022, 03:30 PM
You knew it was shingles?
ChumpDumper
05-29-2022, 03:36 PM
Get well soon.
CosmicCowboy
05-29-2022, 03:37 PM
You knew it was shingles?

I thought it was some kind of allergic reaction. Doctor told me it was shingles and immediately had me go to an opthomologist to check my eye.
ElNono
05-29-2022, 03:39 PM
Not there yet, but not looking forward to it, especially the colonoscopy... :P
GAustex
05-29-2022, 03:41 PM
The prep for colonoscopy is no fun
Got my first of two shingles shot a month ago
DMC
05-29-2022, 03:47 PM
The prep for colonoscopy is no fun
Got my first of two shingles shot a month ago

Candles, wine and some flowers makes it tolerable.
Dirks_Finale
05-29-2022, 04:12 PM
Not there yet, but will do when the time comes. Happened to someone I know and it was debilitating .

Get well soon.
Thread
05-29-2022, 04:17 PM
The current commercial is enough to scare the shit out of one.
SnakeBoy
05-29-2022, 04:52 PM
Not there yet, but not looking forward to it, especially the colonoscopy... :P

The colonoscopy is nothing but a nice propofol nap

Prep day sucks tho
DMC
05-29-2022, 04:53 PM
I thought it was some kind of allergic reaction. Doctor told me it was shingles and immediately had me go to an opthomologist to check my eye.

How different from Monkeypox?
MultiTroll
05-29-2022, 07:37 PM
How different from Monkeypox?
CC doesn't visit nursing homes looking for pick ups.
GAustex
05-29-2022, 08:15 PM
The colonoscopy is nothing but a nice propofol nap

Prep day sucks tho
propofol Is some good stuff
Drift way wake up
No hangover
Good stuff
baseline bum
05-29-2022, 08:21 PM
Ouch. Hope those antivirals shut that shit down and start reversing it quickly.
baseline bum
05-29-2022, 08:23 PM
The colonoscopy is nothing but a nice propofol nap

Prep day sucks tho

24 hours without eating, must be cruel and unusual punishment for San Antonians
Millennial_Messiah
05-29-2022, 08:40 PM
24 hours without eating, must be cruel and unusual punishment for San Antonians

Can you have cigars though? They stop you from craving food. Alternatively you can play chess or simcity all day to pass the time.
pgardn
05-29-2022, 08:59 PM
Supposedly advances from the burning and swelling to blisters and then scabs. Not looking forward to my eye and left side of my face being covered in scabs.

If Covid had these symptoms, was really easy to catch, but killed absolutely no one, people would be lined up asking to be vaxxed and would not be the least bit worried about their rights.

And holy shit to the symptoms. Skin stuff sounds really painful.
Hope it goes away before it gets to your skin as sleeping could be really difficult having to lie in one position possibly.
And the other stuff, eyes... damn. Left side...? sounds like it plays with nerves?
Get well please. No symptoms.
MultiTroll
05-29-2022, 10:03 PM
If X # of years has passed can one get a new shingles shot just to be sure?
HemisfairArena
05-29-2022, 10:32 PM
Ive had shingles,,,,it sucks. Imagine having a severe sunburn in a specific area and then raking it over glass shards. Colonoscopy on the hand is nothing,,,the worst part is drinking the nasty shit they give you for the night before the procedure to clean you out,,,and you better stay close to a bathroom or youre in big trouble,,,,the procedure itself youre not even awake for,,,,nothing to it.
DMC
05-29-2022, 10:43 PM
What do shingles have to do with colonoscopy?

I did the turd in a box instead. No shit (pun intended), the pamphlet says "do not drink" the liquid they provide and do not urinate in the container. That means people have done both. Someone actually shit IN the container instead of using the tool to get a sample. :lol
SnakeBoy
05-29-2022, 10:59 PM
24 hours without eating, must be cruel and unusual punishment for San Antonians

It's the drinking lime flavored saltwater until you pee out of your butt that's the worst.

Well worth it tho. My sister in law died of butt cancer, you don't want to die that way trust me.
Blake
05-29-2022, 11:00 PM
I remember my mom having shingles during Christmas one year. She was in sheer agony. Hope it doesn't last long for you.

Any idea how you might have got it?
SnakeBoy
05-29-2022, 11:28 PM
What do shingles have to do with colonoscopy?

I did the turd in a box instead. No shit (pun intended), the pamphlet says "do not drink" the liquid they provide and do not urinate in the container. That means people have done both. Someone actually shit IN the container instead of using the tool to get a sample. :lol

Turd in a box only accurate at telling you if you have cancer. Colonoscopy they can see/remove any polyps that might turn into cancer.

Shingles vaccine/Colonoscopy = things you should do when you get older
SnakeBoy
05-29-2022, 11:30 PM
I remember my mom having shingles during Christmas one year. She was in sheer agony. Hope it doesn't last long for you.

Any idea how you might have got it?

Everyone has it. It's dormant chickenpox virus come back to life.

Vaccines don't prevent infection.
Blake
05-29-2022, 11:40 PM
Everyone has it. It's dormant chickenpox virus come back to life.

Vaccines don't prevent infection.

Just asking how it suddenly flares up like that. I'll Google. Thanks tho.
SnakeBoy
05-29-2022, 11:46 PM
Just asking how it suddenly flares up like that. I'll Google. Thanks tho.

They don't know why, just happens to about half of people at some point over age 50.
Winehole23
05-29-2022, 11:53 PM
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, CC. Sounds ouchy,

How's the new knee?
ElNono
05-30-2022, 02:25 AM
What do shingles have to do with colonoscopy?

I did the turd in a box instead. No shit (pun intended), the pamphlet says "do not drink" the liquid they provide and do not urinate in the container. That means people have done both. Someone actually shit IN the container instead of using the tool to get a sample. :lol

We were just talking about what people over 50 have to do...
Ef-man
05-30-2022, 11:22 AM
We were just talking about what people over 50 have to do...

Chuncko should get reading glasses to see posts on computer screen, as grandkids or other young folk are not always around to assist those over 50. :tu
DMC
05-30-2022, 11:51 AM
We were just talking about what people over 50 have to do...

Ok, I was like fuck, you get shingles in your asshole?
CosmicCowboy
05-30-2022, 12:54 PM
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, CC. Sounds ouchy,

How's the new knee?

I can walk fine but still disappointing. I used to be able to ski black and double black ski slopes but don't have the rigidity anymore to ski well no matter how much strengthening therapy I do...I was able to get my 5 year old grandson started this year but in a couple years i won't be able to keep up with him.
Winehole23
05-30-2022, 02:36 PM
I can walk fine but still disappointing. I used to be able to ski black and double black ski slopes but don't have the rigidity anymore to ski well no matter how much strengthening therapy I do...I was able to get my 5 year old grandson started this year but in a couple years i won't be able to keep up with him.that was gonna be the case anyway, we're all getting older!
Millennial_Messiah
05-30-2022, 03:50 PM
I didn't really hear that it can hit your face and make you blind. I thought it was more concentrated around your core, abs, back area.
CosmicCowboy
05-30-2022, 05:48 PM
Yep, sadly it can hit the face and scalp too. I think I caught it early enough to keep it from spreading to my cornea.
ElNono
05-30-2022, 07:38 PM
Ok, I was like fuck, you get shingles in your asshole?

Hope not lol
CosmicCowboy
05-30-2022, 08:36 PM
Ok, I was like fuck, you get shingles in your asshole?

No, that's how you get loaded with monkeypox.
pgardn
05-30-2022, 08:58 PM
No, that's how you get loaded with monkeypox.

It started that way.
Now its in general all the different sore areas and face to face respiratory.
I read that people thought AIDS was a disease mandated by God to punish gays.
Wonder if world that knows God so well sees the monkey pox the same way.

You can still ski... right?
You dont have to do difficult hills to enjoy, correct?
CosmicCowboy
05-31-2022, 09:37 AM
It started that way.
Now its in general all the different sore areas and face to face respiratory.
I read that people thought AIDS was a disease mandated by God to punish gays.
Wonder if world that knows God so well sees the monkey pox the same way.

You can still ski... right?
You dont have to do difficult hills to enjoy, correct?

I skied this year but its a little spooky. My right knee especially has some right/left play I can't control.. I go to set my edges to turn and the ski trys to chatter. Hard to explain.
SnakeBoy
05-31-2022, 10:00 AM
I read that people thought AIDS was a disease mandated by God to punish gays.


God started it that way. The program was so successful He expanded it to fornicators in general.
Ef-man
05-31-2022, 10:10 AM
God started it that way. The program was so successful He expanded it to fornicators in general.

And new born babies, like those from crack/heroin addicts. God hates those babies.
RandomGuy
06-07-2022, 08:17 AM
Go get a shingles vaccine next week. I put it off and got hit with it last week...all over the left side of my face and scalp. I can honestly say this is some very bad shit....feels like a chemical burn plus random electrical shocks. Virtually impossible to sleep. I have been lucky so far and it hasn't attacked my cornea even though its all over my eye lids etc and the eye is swollen shut. It can cause blindness if it gets in the actual eye itself.

Sorry to hear.
Thanks for the advice.

My dad had problems with that as well.