Shingles

[stateside]

Anyone had them? They bloody hurt. Especially when they drop them off the roof on your head. Oh, wait wrong shingles.

[MissWinnie]

Very witty, Dad.

Seriously, shingles is no fun. I've not had them myself, but my mum went down with them a couple of years ago. She said it's the worst pain she's ever experienced so you have my sympathy. You look after yourself and get well soon.

[bongosdad]

Shingles sounds like something shaking Stevens would get. Not had it myself but i know people who have. Its horrible so hope you get well soon. Worse pain i ever had was a kidney stone.

[ozfan]

Thankfully no mate but I'm sorry to hear you have them. My Dad was a tough old nut but he said they really were painful.

Such a benign. Almost lighthearted. Needs to be tougher for that sort of pain. Shinglaphosis.

[stateside]

Thanks everyone. Bongo, I have had many many kidney stones and if I had to choose between the two I would pick Shingles all day long. This is tolerable, stones are not.

[stateside]

If any of you have had an Indian or Chinese burn given to you imagine that constantly across a nerve in your body showing up at different points all the time.

For a week I used nothing except sme anti itch spray and Claritin in the morning and Benadryl at night to help me sleep. I thought it was a large spider bite, but as it spread I thought the toxins were spreading giving me more allergies.

So I went to the Dr and found out the real reason.

She gave me a strong nerve med for nighttime and it has carried over to this morning making me a little groggy and she gave me a viral pill. Apart from that just an Ice pack.

[bongosdad]

Isn't that for erectile disfunction?

[stateside]

No a viral pill not a virile pill.

[stateside]

Why do they sell drugs like this? I see adverts all the time stating all the side affects drugs have. I took one of these drugs without recalling the advert.

My Dr prescribed it for the pain. It is for depression, but it works for deadening the nerves I guess.

I took it on Friday night. Saturday I watch Villa play and was ready to kill someone. My wife walked in and I told her I am so angry right now. She had to go out and told me not to kill Sera (who is also sick right now) :-)

The drug slowly wore off during the day and the night I took my next one. No problem until the next day about the same time as the previous day I started getting uncontrollably depressed. All the crap in my past came up in my head and then all the crap I may or may not have to deal with in the future came up and it seemed like a better idea to just end it now. For about ten minutes my head was screaming at me to get the remaining pills and pop them all at once.

I listened to this voice until I got tire

[MissWinnie]

So, if we are all red carded this week, and the board goes silent, we'll know why.

Seriously, that's really concerning that you are getting those kind of symptoms from taking something prescribed to you by your Dr. I hope you don't mind me being a bossy boots sticky beak Winnie, and saying I really hope you go back to your Dr, who can hopefully give you something else to help with the pain.

I remember my mum also being prescribed anti-depressants when she had shingles - something to do with the way serotonin is released and then absorbed back has an impact on nerve ends and so helps with the pain, if I remember correctly. She was fine with them though - no side effects.

Your story reminded me about a big fuss in the media about the side effects one of the newer antidepressants (I can't remember what it was called) a few years ago. Really similar symptoms to the one's you describe, and then further pretty horrific withdrawal symptoms when they tried to come off them.