So, I’ve got the pox
So according to a doctor at the Alexian Medical Health Center located at Matina, Davao City. I’ve got Chicken Pox, which is supposed to be resolving but appears to be coming back into the scene, for a reason that I don’t know why.
I don’t want to look as ugly as this person here, I need to find an alternative cure for this before it becomes as severe as that. That’s why I’ve been looking for treatments for this virus all night long now.
I wonder if I’ll be ready to go for WordCamp Davao on the 4th and WordCamp St Benilde (PH) on the 6th, that in Manila. By the way, I’ve been asking around, if there are a couple of you who would like to meet me in Manila during my stay there. If you are interested in seeing me personally, you can leave a comment on the post.
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eww. may chicken pox!
hi Kevin,
i saw the pictures of youre skin posted on flickr.com and i placed a comment with it before i read that you went to the doctor on the linked pinoyteens page. So i know you found out that it is a virus now, but you were writing that you are looking fore information about threatment and i wanted to let you know that in my comment on youre photo’s on flickr.com there is also some information about what to do, what not to do and various medication the docters can prescribe. Maby it’s of use. Hope you get well soon. greetings Karina (sorry for the bad english spelling)
@karina - Hi Karina, thanks for the effort of commenting here and on flickr for that issue.
I really don’t know what this could be, but I have doubts that this is Chicken Pox either. I’m having an appointment at a better hospital tomorrow, hope it won’t be anything severe.
@Izy - shut up iz!
Hi Kevin, it’s Karina again!
You are right, it’s not the chickenpox but i get where the confusion comes from because there is a link between the chicken pox and what you seem to be having. It’s called shingles(there is an other official medical therm fore it), and is a virus that is left in the nerves of the skin from having the chicken pox. It is not known yet what causes it to get active and becomes shingles. Theories are that it
can be triggert to cause problems when youre health resistance is lower than normalley, if you are overtired or having other additional medical conditions.
It can be diagnosed by a doctor based on the complications you are experiencing and the way the skin looks. When in doubt the doctor can do a couchgrass of the virus by taking some fluid of the blisters and testing it (these blisters start a few days after the first shingles skin signs like pain, itching and a tingleling feeling in the skin).
It is contagious to people that didn’t have the chicken pox yet. They can get the chicken pox from being in contact with youre shingles. It is not possible to give someone shingles. Be carefull around elderly people, pregnant women that are under tree months pregnant and children when you get the blisters filled with fluid, that’s when it is contagious (they dissepeare within one to two weeks on there own, after that the blisters become rinds and the skin heals itself, so the whole thing should be over in two to four weeks time.
I don’t know if there is a cure for it or that it is possiblility that it comes back and medical threatment can only releave the signs. The doctor can give you a salve that dries up the blisters, a creme against the itching, the pain can be releaved with paracetamol and is that doesn’t help with diclofenac, ibruprofen or naproxen(these can cause stomack pain as a side effect).
if the shingles is at the skin of the face or if the patients health resistence is very low from an other medical condition doctors can prescribe an antiviral (aciclovir) but that can cause headaces and nausiousness. Sometimes antdepressives are being given to attempt to releave the nervespains (these nervepains can be experienced long after the shingles). If the shingles is on the skin of the face near the eye it can dammage the cornea with scartissue. when the nerves of the face are dammaged a condition called syndrome of Ramsay Hunt can appear (that’s very serious so make sure if it looks like that is happening to see the doctor).
Anyway, i don’t want to scare you with this information and you have only got it at the skin of the back, so the last part doesn’t apply to you now. But i thought someone else might read youre story that is suffering from the same thing and it might apply to that person that’s why i put it in here also. As fore you, i hope that this other hospital you are visiting today is able to help you to get well. And i used to know a guy that was having the shingles also, and he is doing fine with some medical stuff if he has an attack, so you will probebly be oke soon. Good luck
@karina - Is that viral infection deadly?
Hi Princess,
To begin with i’m not a doctor and have no medical background, so the person that thinks he or she has got a health problem should always see a doctor to make sure he or she gets the right medical help. The information i shared on this website can help someone to recognize the problem could be shingles and give some additional information, but should not be instad of the diagnose of an expert.
However, the information i shared comes from the personal experience of a person i used to know that was diagnosed with shingles by a docter. And to make sure i gave no false information, i looked it up in the medical encyclopedia. So as fare as i know all the information should be correct.
The answer to the question if shingles is dangerous to the patients health, depents on on which part of the body it is. It is not life threatning, but when it is in the erea of the face it can lead to severe dammage.
- Shingles that is not in the erea of the face :
Shingles is is not life threatning, most of the times the body heals itself from the attack in two to four weeks time. During that time the complains the patient is experiencing from shingles (pain, itching, tingeling feeling of the skin, blisters, nervepains) can be releaved as mutch as possible with medical treatment. I do not know if shingles can be cured, or that the medical help only helps to releave the complains when having an attack. To people that are in good health, apart from the shingles, it is inconvenient but unharmfull.
- Shingles that is in the face area :
Only when the shingles is on the skin of the face near the eye, it can cause serious dammage, because blisters can form on the nose and sores in the eye. Which is not only very painfull but can dammage the corea of the eye with scartissue. When the face nerve is dammaged a condition named syndrome of Ramsay Hunt can appear. Than blisters form in the ear canal, this can lead to severe ear paine, deafness, dizzyness and paralysation in the face.
I’m sorry if my comment from 2september got you worried without cause, that wasn’t my intention.
But i thought i should mention the information about shingled in the face erea just in case someone reads this that has got it there, because to them it can be harmfull not to know.
Hope this comment answers youre question.