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12-05-2012 at 9:19 PM
Kingston54
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NBR: Anyone have experience with SHINGLES?

I think my DH has a mild case of shingles. 

One day he woke up with a cluster of little bumps/pimples/a rash on his upper abdomen.  Then a day or two later he got more.

At first they just itched a tiny bit - now he says they are starting to get painful.

I want him to call the doctor and go, he thinks it will resolve on its own. 

Any thoughts/information on shingles?

Thank you!


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12-05-2012 at 9:23 PM
MrsW007
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He needs to get looked at. Shingles are mainly symptom management but are still contagious.
 
12-05-2012 at 9:32 PM
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He should definitely go get looked at.  There is medicine that can shorten the length of the outbreak and make it a LOT less painful, its better that he go sooner, rather than later though.  

 


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12-05-2012 at 9:55 PM
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A friend of mine has gotten shingles twice. She said that the pain gets worse the longer she went without going to the doctor's. I would definitely try to get him to go.
12-05-2012 at 10:14 PM
Kingston54
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I think I have him convinced to call the doctor tomorrow.  We aren't 100% sure it is shingles, but it definitely fits.

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12-05-2012 at 11:11 PM
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Yes! Call the doctor. My dh had shingles back in July. We were worried since I was pregnant so he went straight to the urgent care. It was pretty painful for him. It was like little blisters along his side and they burned. As for you, as long as you have had chicken pox already you are fine. Shingles aren't as bad for a pregnant woman and her baby but chicken pox can be really bad. That's what the doctor was mainly concerned with. it can be contagious but he kept it bandaged up and made sure I didn't come into direct contact with exposed skin and I was fine. 
12-06-2012 at 12:12 PM
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i had a mild case that didn't hurt and i didn't do anything at all about it and it went away.  at the time, i was teaching computer classes to older doctors who were just learning how to use them and several of them looked at it -- not sure if that counts as going to the doctor.  they said not to worry about it unless it got worse.  mine was on my back and about the size of a nutter butter cookie.  strange analogy, i know.

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12-06-2012 at 1:05 PM
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I had shingles once on my back and my side, and it was completely miserable. He definitely needs to go to the doctor so they can give him something for the pain.. My doctor gave me a cream to put on, as well as pain meds.. I went to the doctor the first day that they actually started to hurt because I had no idea what it was, and it still lasted a week or more.. They are also very contagious to anyone who hasn't had chicken pox before, so I'd tell him to be careful around children and such.. 

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