From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   >Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >> unruh wrote:   
      
   >>> Shingles is not particularly catching AFAIK. It is another outbreak   
   >>> of the chickenpox that the person got earlier in life, went dormant   
   >>> in the roots of the nerves and then, for some reason,   
      
   Usually something to do with stress   
      
   >>> burst out again. I got it about 40 years ago. It is a bizarre   
   >>> feeling, as the pain along a nerve ramps up over a few minutes to   
   >>> quite intense, and then will suddenly (within a second) switch   
   >>> off completely, and the cycle repeats.   
      
   Somewhat different - my wife had an outbreak several years ago, that   
   was primarily a mild body rash, but she was a BEAR to be near then.   
   It lasted about a month. She got a second (similar) outbreak about a   
   year later, and lucky for me, I was out of the country at the time.   
      
   A neighbor had an outbreak on the upper back and neck. At times she   
   was in major discomfort - they dosed her with mega-doses of Vitamin B   
   and industrial strength analgesic (codeine for the worst times).   
      
   >> This sounds like there may be more permanance to the damage than I   
   >> was aware of. An aunt of mine came down with shingles, and had a   
   >> devil of a time for 2 or 3 months, and then recovered. No   
   >> continuing problems. My understanding was this was typical.   
      
   I think it can vary quite a bit.   
      
   >       Shingles can repeat on you especially if you cannot learn   
   >to control emotions which stimulate the nervous system and help   
   >cause the outbreaks.  The virus continues to survive usually dormant   
   >after a childhood illness of chicken pox and is as noted quite   
   >painful.   
      
   Most of the outbreaks I'm familiar with were stress-related.   
      
   >My outbreak was over quickly and since then I have had a shingles   
   >vaccination.   
      
   I got one because my sister had a minor outbreak and it seems anything   
   she gets, I get in spades.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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