Poll - Have you had chickenpox or shingles?

I know looking up illnessees on wikipedia is never a good idea but I suspect this is the form of shingles I have and now I'm bricking it.

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

Thankfully I'm already taking Acyclovir as early treatment is usually fairly effective at preventing complications.

Had it when i was 6, it wasn't pleasant.

The bug swept through my class at school, we all dropped like flies.

Don't know. Mum can't remember me ever having chicken pox, which will be fun if/when moo gets it......

I've never had either which is surprising and a little worrying, because my immune system usually picks up whatever's going pretty easily, so I’ll probably get it some day.

I had chicken pox when I was little and I spent the entire time playing a pool game on the mighty ZX81.

That 1K memory :wub:

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I had chicken pox at around 4 or 5, I was bedridden I was that ill with it. My daughter on the other hand had it when she was 3 and carried on as if she was fine, except covered in itchy spots.

Her grandad has never had it. If any of the kids in the family have any similar symptoms to chicken pox they have to stay away from him.

Chickenpox as a child, around 5 or 6 if I recall. Not bed-ridden, but I did get the day off school. Cue me using a red pen to try and add more pox when it eased up.

Rightey wrote:I had it as a kid. I thought if you got it then it won't come back.

^ this

I had chickenpox at some point.. I've never had particularly bad acne so it might explain some of my scars, that are otherwise a bit of a mystery.

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Both my sister and I got it when we were on holiday aged about 3 and 7. I don't think it affected us too bad.

Shingles sounds horrible.

UpdateL Pain in and around eye beginning to ease off despite a few more sores appearing overnight , vision still slightly blurry but no worse.

Poll - Have you had chickenpox or shingles?

Have you had chickenpox?

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