• voracitude@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    My experience with chicken pox mirrors yours - they were everywhere. I’m approaching middle age (or there, depending on who you ask (👉゚ヮ゚)👉), and I’m hoping it doesn’t happen to me. But I know it’s just hanging out there in my spine… waiting.

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      16 hours ago

      Get the vaccine when you can. Because you’re right, and depending which nerve path it chooses it can be bad or it can be worse

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      20 hours ago

      Get that shingles vaccine asap. My Dad is the most stoic person I know when it comes to sickness and he literally CALLED ME ON THE PHONE howling about how bad it hurt. Don’t be my Dad, y’all.

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      18 hours ago

      Brought about by stress … I was going through a fairly stressful time with work, travelling to a new place and trying to make ends meet. Keep a good diet, exercise, eat healthy, sleep well and keep the stress down … if you mess any of those up, you’re increasing chances of that infection just creeping up. Like others have said, it’s probably best to just get the shingles vaccine.