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Dear Paul, Don't forget the other causes of Shingles. The Vaccine. OMG!!! Two days after I got the vaccine I started to feel a tingling along my left side of my midriff. I am 89 and sensitive..I saw my Primary and told her,,she said it was nothing and dismissed me. I suffered terribly for over two months. It is much better now. I might add I do have reactions to most medications. I did isolate myself fearing I might pass this on. There is much to say here but I will spare you. Oh yes the neauralgia!! Thank you for making this video.

Well, feeling how the blisters on my torso began to shrink within 3 days was very soothing, I applied what I talked about the other day and in two weeks the pain was gone. I just go'ogled Kaena Ramingler's Shingles Solution and now I feel as smooth and relaxed as I've ever been.

Excellent explanation

Thanks, Dr Q! I spoke to you as an on-call physician yesterday regarding shingles and wondering if I have it. Your video is VERY educational and easy to understand. The sensation I was having for the last 2 days is gone. So maybe that’s it? Or, as you mentioned, maybe a rash will pop out in a few days, but I am thankful to have had the opportunity to speak to you and see this video. If there are any more symptoms that become unbearable I’ll be sure to follow up with my GP. God bless you for your work and compassion!

Can someone post a video discussing shingle vs a metal sheet for roofing??

Chicken shingles are scientifically worse than chicken fingers.

I got shingles but don't remember getting chicken pox where's the logic in that?

I had shingles when I was 28. But no pain or itching. The blisters lasted for 3 month. But I the whole time I got some other infections and had fever and I felt really tired. My vitamin d b12 and iron was very low. I got medications the rush healed but the tiredness isn't gone. My temperature is mostly 38 degrees and I have night sweat.

So I was just diagnosed with shingles a day ago, I am 30 years old. I asked my doctor if I could get the shingles vaccine. He seemed hesitant and replied that I need to take antiviral first and then we can discuss it. Will doctors deny younger people who have gotten this the vaccinne because we arent of the right age for the shingles vaccine?

it feels as what it is “herpes”.

Thank you Dr Q.you are talking about me. From february all i feel is hell till now.im 44 years old. I used to have measles ,chicken pox .

It’s Oct. I got shingles in May. Every time I think it’s clearing up it hits me again. I live in MX. Couldn’t get diagnosed.. Very miserable thing to have and the heat, wow. Thank you for the video.

Did you mention whether it keeps reoccurring or is this a onetime thing ? I have a rather mild case now.

Thank you for this amazing video that clarifies almost everything about shingles. But then even though it's triggered by compromised immune system why some doctors pressure patients to get tested for hiv before treating them ? What if the patient refuses to test... is there a difference in treatment?

I have shingles and im only 23 im so scared to come back again 😔😔😔😔😔

Female, and 67 I have had a terrible case of Shingles since the first full week of April, it is now July 3. I have been in so much pain, about 5-6 kinds. Pain meds did not work. Gabapentin...300 mg. every 8 hours did help. I have suffered with difficulty breathing since first of May. Finally, got doctors to take this serious. Prednisone has helped, by making the blisters stop trying to break out. I don't think I got on the proper protocol soon enough. I am getting better and the pain is better, but the effect it has and continues to have on my lungs is no laughing matter. Very, very scary. I have never had asthma in my life, I say this as some seem to think that it might be a precursor to lung issues with Shngles. Inhaler 's are useless! Breathing treatments are helpful if you can get someone to give them to you and better get allow you to buy the thing to have at home. A few times I pretty much thought I was a goner, as I thought this thing was going to put me 6feet under. F you get this bad you could die, or wish you were. The older you are the more scary this is if you are alone. I had Jesus and a husband that could get me to my many E.R. Visits. God Bless. Get the vaccine. My husband and I had been on a waiting list for the vaccine for 8 months when I got this dreaded Shingles. I could have avoided this or at least a horrible case like this. I am not out of the woods yet. I wonder if this child hood chicken pox vaccine has car this increase in Shingles. I also wonder how children who have gotten the chicken pox vaccine can end up with Shingles at age 8 or 9? Also why are more young adults getting the Shingles since they began vaccinations in the late 1990s? Suspicious!!!! Still not well!

Suffering with it for 2 weeks now.I was having a lot of discomfort for a few days then the rash appeared.It actually feels like a dull stabbing pain at the moment.Rash has faded but pain hasn't decreased whatsoever.

My mom has shingles and ur video looked like it might be the best one to watch and i am glad i did because u exsplained it beautifully thank u so much

im 35 years old and just got shingles on the right side of my back. mom said i never had chickenpox as a kid and i did have chickenpox vaccine. what is the liklihood of me getting shingles again after this??? my main concern is bc id like to get pregnant within the next 2 yrs

i have diagnose as having a chicken pox right now, but i havent got this virus until i was 33 (current age) but the symptoms somehow shows a combination of cpox and shingles and i am confuse if this is really a cpox, i got red fluid in my scalp actually now its all over my face but currently doesnt infect the middle nose, but the right side in lower part of my eye i got red bump and red fluid bumps. in case of my previous diagnose, i got impetigo in my left side of my face but not all, only a little. also i didnt got flu but i got dry cough. so is this really a chicken pox or is this already a shingles? i hope you can reply to my question. thank you very much.

I have read and listened to 10-15 physician and Dr. Q was by far the best. I am currently in my fourth day of taking Valtrex. Thank goodness I think I had a mild facial shingles attack that started on my right forehead close to my hairline. After the first day of the antiviral the blisters broke out in two other places. After the second day I of the antiviral I have no additional breakouts. Everything has scabbed over and I did go see my opthamologist and was cleared of any eye issues. I wish I had been more aware as I felt the tingling in the area where the first cluster appeared but I'm a big golfer and in the past I have not put on enough sun screen. I am a fitness person and eat healthy but I am 73 in great shape. My analysis is that my skin in that overly sunburned area lowered my immunity. Maybe that had nothing to do with it. Regarding the post hepatic neuralgia, I continue to have sharp episodic pin prick pain in the occipital area. I have had this issues on occasions before getting shingles but probably the increase is do to the shingles. Advil usually helps but I'm hoping the frequency of this neuralgia will go away. I would also recommend called "Magic Mouthwash" a RX that really helped me because my gums on the right side were so swollen and painful I could hardly open my mouth. The mouthwash number my gums an I think it has an antibiotic in it too. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge Dr. Q. David Raque

I am 40 and have had shingle ' attacks' for around 4 years now. It first started on my left wrist/forearm with my hand losing strength first and I was unable to pinch my thumb and finger together. Then the pain came straight up my forearm to my elbow for s week then the rash/blisters. Doctors failed to diagnose for about a week or so meaning I was late taking anti viral meds. I now get an attack every 4-5 months in my arm. I also had an attack in my RIGHT arm which is not supposed to happen lol. When I have sttacks I also lose feeling in my legs which go to jelly. At this moment in time they are testing me for M.S and all sorts and I am sitting here with an attack happening ( about a week now) in my face. Pain down my forehead to my nose and across my right eye lid. Also my cheekbone feels like I have had a whack from Tyson. No blisters though ...my right side has gone numb with pins and needles type effect which is worrying. Apart from this I am wonderful lol. Living with shingles is hell and lucky you if it comes and goes quickly never to return. Good luck everyone.

Is shingles along the c5 dermatome(back of neck into shoulder and down arm) common, and can the virus do any destruction to bones, tendons, etc? Can it permanently inflame or destroy nerve? If TENS Machine gives some relief, does the electricity further inflame nerve?

You need to come to Australia and teach some of the doctors how to interact with there patients instead of just trying to make as much money as possible. They seem to get you in and out as quickly as possible.

There was a very specific reason why Cannabis was banned and why modern scientific orthodoxy continues to state that Cannabis has no medicinal uses ...Big Pharma and Americas medical cabal whom ..Treat and never cure. The #1 remedy for Shingles is pure CBD oil ..I use 750 mg strength CBD, rub the oil on when you first begin to feel that ..miserable tingling feeling and let it absorb, then repeat in 5 min. Important to understand that CBD is the non-psychoactive extract of Cannabis ..and for me, the oil killed my Shingles in 24 hours and 48 hours later there was hardly any sign of the outbreak. I'm hoping that the CBD actually cures my shingles ..but time will tell.

I had pain 6 weeks, saw 3 Drs and they all thought it was a kidney infection and even possibly a kidney stone because I started with a lan UTI that progressively got worse. They did a CT SCAN with and without contrast and probed the painful area but none of them looked at the skin around my torso. The 4th Dr checked the CT SCANS then looked at my skin. She immediately diagnosed me with shingles because I had a red streak following the nerve path. My neighbor has cerebral palsy and has never had chicken pox even though she was exposed by several siblings and didn't get the vaccine because she is allergic to eggs. She has always told people can't catch child hood diseases. Is this true? I sure don't want her to get chicken pox now because I have shingles.

My son just came down with shingles but has never had chicken pox. How? What else could it be?

Can a child having just received a vaccine for chicken pox give and adult who has never had chicken pox, shingles from contact ?

I wish you were my doctor, you are so specific with this situation... I just found out yesterday that I might have shingles, I have been in so much pain on my left side, like a burning sensation. It’s so uncomfortable I cry to try to fall asleep, I’m going to see a doctor on Monday morning.. I hope my doctor will be just as specific as you are, thank you for this video

Very helpful 🙏

Thanks a lot dr is the shingles vaccine is good enough for once in life time or has to be done repeatedly?

You do not want to take Amitriptyline longer than a week unless you LITERALLY want to DIE. Another point proving you doctors are totally clueless. I almost died from that drug. Withdrawal from Amitriptyline was no joke; the pain and anxiety was so intense I thought of ending my life 3 times. I took this pill only 5 months and withdrawal took me 6 months. I alwas call it a glimpse of hell. Never take that drug. You would fall in love with your shingles knowing how you have saved your life avoiding Amitriptyline.

Thanks Doc for enlightening me. I never had chicken pox when I was a child but began feeling the pain just last week and the blisters started three days ago. I am fifty seven and a half years. Why did I got it.

I been having this shit gor almost a week now right side mid upper back and right rib is killing me feels like im being punch in my rib and kicked on my back and then it switches to some other type of pain like a hot blade stabbing me

First of all, thank you for your information. I have shingles and I found it out, on the very early stage, my question to you, do this illness, can have a mild breakdown without getting worse? or have to have a big breakdown? right now I have it very little rashes on the side of my left side of my back and left side of my stomach. Can these rashes can it be very mild as suppose to get a big breakout? Thank you for your response.

Five years later...Thanks! Needed this information. Just developed shingles again after forty years and at seventy years old this thing really smarts! Thanks again..

Hey Dr. Q - I'm 50 and I had some discomfort on the outside of my left tricep a week ago. Burning, itchy and sore. A day or 2 later I developed 3 clusters of red bumps , an area the diameter of a tennis ball. They are still quite red and sore and the area around my arm hyper sensitive but overall, look a little better. I didn't want to bother my doc during flu season. Do you think since it doesn't seem too serious that it can go away on its own or should I still get it looked at? Now that I've had shingles, am I now immune like with chickenpox or should I still get vaccinated?

I get reoccurring shingles every month just before my period imagine always having up burning rash it goes for a couple of weeks and then guaranteed it's back again I'm sick of always feeling run down tired and all the bad scarring it's left the only thing I found that really does help my shingles is coconut oil

Hi heard your video am very happy with the knowledge you shared so explicitly my dad has shringles since jan 7th 2019.He was on antiviral for a week but pain has lessened to what it was but still bothersome he is on trimethazone but due to its side effects can he use it with a combination with Gabapentin..awaiting your reply ..

I have some feed back doc, I have been very depressed and anxious due Autism and watching my mum suffocate and die, I have spent alot of time and I mean alot of time in bed, about 90% of that time I have lay on my left shoulder because my phone charger is on my left, in the past week I have had some worsening tightness in the muscles between my spine and left shoulder, a few days ago as i pushed my left arm down to get up I felt a little sharp pain, this morning I woke up in pain feeling like what I amagine being stabbed is like, someone smashed a few bones with a hammer, I've been to see a doctor, just like you said, one look and see said it's shingles, the reason for my comment is because you say no one knows why it happens, just wondering if I've released the virus by damaging a nerve. I hope that feed back sheds any light on this and thanks for the video.

No chicken pox and today I was diagnosed with shingles🙁

I suspect Shingles and Bells Palsy can be passed between adults who have had chickenpox. At my work place it came in waves. (Yes I know common explanation is that you will only spread chicken pox when u have shingles). I hope some further research will be done.

I have shingles and I have only 20 years old.

Thank you for this. I have just today been diagnosed with shingles, and every thing you said rang true, but i have one question. My shingles are around my right forhead and eye, The precursor was extreme sensitivity on my scalp. The thing that has me puzzled is that it was over my entire scalp (ie left AND right) Once the reash started it was just on the right side circling my right eye, with swelling under the eye. I was immediately given an appointment at the local hosital eye center. I am now having some nerve pain and "girding my loins" for a fight. Thanks again for the info.

I have shingles right now. It's the most horrific pain I've ever felt. I have it on my face and eye on the right side of my head. I've been on the medication for 11 days now. The eye dr is treating Inflammation in my eye so she is keeping me on the meds at least another week. My issue is the excruciating, constant itching on my head all day and all night. I've tried every topical med I can think of and ibuprofen wont even come close to helping with the pain. My fear is this pain not going away and shingles reoccurring. I am 50 years old here, the picture of good health. I eat right and exercise every day. I will get the shot when this clears up but is there anything I can do for the horrible itching?? I haven't slept in days. I will try anything. I'm desperate.

Thank you for responding back .God Bless

Thank you

One more question: I am having muscle pain in the exact area on my back where the worst rash is. It is definitely not the surface but very deep in the muscle, like a muscle spasm. Is this normal or do you see muscle issues like this with singles sometimes?

Does the Post-herpetic neuralgia tend to be just as painful or less painful than the singles themselves (i.e. rash)? Is it ever MORE painful?

I'm 23 and have a bad case of shengels on my face up into my eye right now. It's the worst pain I've ever been in and I've broken my jaw and my arm before. It's no joke.