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I am currently in the middle of my second round of shingles. I have extreme pain from my right knee, up through my groin, and over my buttock, and to the middle of my chest on the right side. Any touch, including my underwear, clothes, and bed sheets is very painful. Putting my underwear on and taking it off is agony.

I am contagious so I can't go anywhere near children or the immune compromised.

Fortunately I have access to modern medicine and got a prescription for famcyclovir for the shingles and pregabalin for the nerve pain.

Seriously, get your children vaccinated. If you haven't had chicken pox get yourself vaccinated. If you had chicken pox get the shingles vaccine. If you got the old shingles vaccine get the new shingles vaccine, it's better.

And, most important of all, fuck the antivaxers.

Then you're immune for life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV) that also causes chickenpox.

Why would it being acceptable 30 years ago mean anything at all in this context? Who fucking cares what was acceptable 30 years ago?

Science progresses. We understand things more over time. That's how it works.

Chickenpox isn't quite as bad as some of the other viruses but Shingles is horrid and you can only get shingles if you've had chickenpox which is more that enough reason to vaccinate your children. All I can wish on her is chronic chickenpox with exposure on her face and scalp.

"long-term complications of childhood chicken pox" is one search that they don't do

Chicken pox vaccine is a relatively recent invention. Before vaccination we knew that chicken pox was bad in kids but very bad in adults so better to get it as a kid if you had to get it at all. The vaccine changes the equation and not being able to evaluate that is a sign of stupidity. The vitriol from other parents is because she is hurting kids because she's stupid.

I had chicken pox as a kid. I think the vaccine for it only came out after my youngest sibling was around the age for it, as she is the only one of us that got the vaccination and not the illness itself.

Fuck this mentality. Nobody deserves to suffer that shit just because you and I had to. You're supposed to try and give your kids a better experience than you had. Vaccinate your god damn children.

I didn't get chicken pox until I was a Freshman in high school. It fucking sucked and I missed a lot of wrestling season because of it.

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't ask to be vaccinated. Sure that's kinda my parents' fault but I never asked about it.

So drink uranium water, put lead in your car and fill your walls with asbestos.

A lot of things where normal

Once upon a time trepanning - drilling a hole in the skull to "let evil spirits out" - was a common medical practice. We don't do that anymore either, for what I should hope are obvious reasons.

Mercury was once used as a treatment for syphilis, among many other things. Lobotomies, radium "treatment", cocaine and heroin was used as a treatment for children with a cough, smoking was recommended as a treatment for asthma, electroshock therapy was used for damn near everything, induced insulin comas, arsenic and lead, tapeworm diets...

You all get the point.

In other news, measles is spreading in Canada and the US (but only Canada is reporting it)

Shingles fuckin sucks. Had it crop up when I was in 6th grade, only like 5 or 6 years after having chicken pox. Miserable week or so. Not that I’ll have to, but I wouldn’t make my kids go to school if they had shingles.

I had chicken pox as a kid and while it wasn't horrible, I def could've done without a lesion appearing both on my dick and the roof of my mouth.

Anti vaxxers are fucking bonkers

We all had it when we were kids. A friend of mine had it really bad and he has pock marks all over his face and body, he was always the handsome one, but after that it changed him and he was never the same again.

A colleague got shingles with ... 55? He had stroke-like symptoms, i. e. half of his face is drooping, he lost control of one of his eyelids, and his mouth doesn't close completely anymore.

What's the point of giving every virus the chance to thrive?

If shingles are good for a roof, why not you? Checkmate liberals

By the way, even if you don't remember if you got smallpox as a child, vaccinate now against shingles!

Yes, there is a vaccine and based on people who have shingles, you really don't want to get it.

The vaccine was just after I got it. Miserable. I lived in an oatmeal bath. My poor mother got it as an adult (when we got it and gave it to her)

She was worse up in all ways.

I'd have gnawed someone's ankle off to have gotten the vaccine instead. But especially for my mother to have gotten it.

Kate is all 7 of those things. 30 years ago it would have been fine to tell her so. What happened to society?

It's absolutely better to get chicken pox than shingles, but if you get the vaccine, you get neither. But hey, I get it, big pharma is a monster, but many that rally against vaccines also use Ozempic, and plastic surgery etc. Is RFK really onto a thing with vaccines when he's taking steroids?

That's a normal Facebook post for you.

Yeah, I don't wanna hear shit about chickenpox being good for a child. I was too young to be able to get the vaccine and because of that, there's a chance I get the complications of getting pox that you get later in life. It wasn't even my own parents fault, since I caught it in daycare.

Also, if I remember correctly, Japan rolled out the first chickenpox vaccines to prevent it from becoming a mass epidemic on their island nation.

Edit:

It's shingles. That's the complication that can happen later in life after having pox.

And people are fucking supporting this shit. Fuck Facebook this fucking malware is brain washing people.

Yes, the author is stupid to be advocating for chicken pox.

Even setting aside the discomfort of chicken pox, catching chicken pox (particularly as a young child) increases the risk of shingles. Nobody in their right mind wants shingles.