Misunderstood: Shingles (likely misinformation, it would seem)

[PowerEngineer]

Shingrix for the win!

 

[Muse]

You have NO sense of humor at all do you?

I do, but it's mine.

 

[Captante]

I do, but it's mine.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I covered my shingles with metal panels.

 

[pmv]

I did not say he wasn't dangerous, I said he isn't as big an asshole as Alex Jones.

I mean, to be fair, that debunking site rates him maximum on their pseudo-science scale, but harmless on their conspiracy-theorist scale. To be up there with Jones he'd have to blame Shingles on liberals or something.

 

[Muse]

You have NO sense of humor at all do you?

My therapist for my finger injury last April (who I'm still seeing regularly, the finger is splinted 24/7 now) suggested I work on revitalizing my sense of humor. I said I guess I should watch some comedies. I'm open to suggestions. yes, I've seen Finding Nemo (and the sequel... is there more than one?) more than once.

I am NOT humorless, I assure you. But as my therapist noted, it's hard to find humor in a lot of what's happening nowadays. The pandemic, the war, the economic issues, the news one sees/hears...

... oh, and the pain I've endured since that hand injury happened (that's improved a lot recently).

Now, I did not see the humor in your suggesting I should feel bad about posting this thread. Apparently you are suggesting I should find that funny. I didn't. No, I would not dream of posting it to Facebook or any place where people aren't smart and discerning. I figured people here were up to the challenge, and they were.

 

[Captante]

My therapist for my finger injury last April (who I'm still seeing regularly, the finger is splinted 24/7 now) suggested I work on revitalizing my sense of humor. I said I guess I should watch some comedies. I'm open to suggestions. yes, I've seen Finding Nemo (and the sequel... is there more than one?) more than once.

I am NOT humorless, I assure you. But as my therapist noted, it's hard to find humor in a lot of what's happening nowadays. The pandemic, the war, the economic issues, the news one sees/hears...

Now, I did not see the humor in your suggesting I should feel bad about posting this thread. Apparently you are suggesting I should find that funny. I didn't. No, I would not dream of posting it to Facebook or any place where people aren't smart and discerning. I figured people here were up to the challenge, and they were.

Something about Mary should be a good place to start!

Or you could Throw mama from the train!

(criss-cross!)

Consider these "homework"!

 

[Muse]

I covered my shingles with metal panels.

When I had my roof replaced I was up there every night after they left, inspecting their work. I made them redo a fair amount of it. I knew OK from not-OK, I made it my business to know the difference.

 

[Muse]

Something about Mary should be a good place to start!

Will do, thx.

 

[Captante]

And one more classic:

 

[Muse]

Something about Mary should be a good place to start!

Or you could Throw mama from the train!

(criss-cross!)

Consider these "homework"!

Put hold on Something about Mary at local library, Planes, Trains too. Throw Momma they don't have.

There's this:

The 100 funniest comedies of all time

Get ready to laugh, cringe and cry

www.timeout.com

 

[Captante]

Also Neighbors (the 1981 version... be advised the remake sucks)

 

[Muse]

Consider these "homework"!

HA! "Homework" was exactly the term my therapist used when she assigned me the task of revitalizing my sense of humor!

I skimmed through the list of 100 greatest comedies. They had Keaton's "The General" but my favorite Keaton film is "Our Hospitality" which I have on DVD. I guess it's earlier and under the radar but it cracked me up. Here it is, in full, apparently (I don't know why they say Laurel and Hardy, they aren't in it... I do love L&H though):

 

[Captante]

HA! "Homework" was exactly the term my therapist used when she assigned me the task of revitalizing my sense of humor!

I skimmed through the list of 100 greatest comedies. They had Keaton's "The General" but my favorite Keaton film is "Our Hospitality" which I have on DVD. I guess it's earlier and under the radar but it cracked me up.

I love Keaton stuff.

 

[Muse]

I love Keaton stuff.

He never lost that silent comedy genius!

 

[mikeymikec]

IIRC I had an amazingly easy-going run with shingles back in my early twenties. One day I felt a needling sensation on my hip (not terribly painful but enough to make me think WTF), found a few spots, covered it over with a dressing, picked up a prescription for it, done in maybe a couple of weeks.

However, my next-door neighbour very recently got it, and bad. Old guy, immunocompromised and got it on his face. IIRC permanent nerve damage to an eye, hearing in one ear, and the facial muscles on one side of his face.

 

[Captante]

Now, I did not see the humor in your suggesting I should feel bad about posting this thread. Apparently you are suggesting I should find that funny. I didn't.

Good.... THAT part was NOT supposed to be funny.

(don't devote a whole lot of time to it though!)

 

[Captante]

IIRC I had an amazingly easy-going run with shingles back in my early twenties. One day I felt a needling sensation on my hip (not terribly painful but enough to make me think WTF), found a few spots, covered it over with a dressing, picked up a prescription for it, done in maybe a couple of weeks.

However, my next-door neighbour very recently got it, and bad. Old guy, immunocompromised and got it on his face. IIRC permanent nerve damage to an eye, hearing in one ear, and the facial muscles on one side of his face.

Supposedly the older you are when you get Shingles the worse it can potentially be.

 

[mikeymikec]

Supposedly the older you are when you get Shingles the worse it can potentially be.

I wasn't aware of the age component but there are particular places on the body such as the head that if you get the spots there that the outcome is typically much worse.

 

[Captante]

I wasn't aware of the age component but there are particular places on the body such as the head that if you get the spots there that the outcome is typically much worse.

Yeah that too.... as you know anywhere near your eyes is particularly bad news.

Be advised that it's also possible to get regular old "herpes" 1 or 2 in your eyes and it can be equally serious. (Two especially can damage or even destroy your sight in extreme cases)

Herpes can spread from virtually any skin-contact too with the risk of transmission increasing with duration and/or contact with blisters.

 

[Muse]

None of the friends or family who had shingles characterized it as no big deal. I got the vaccines.

I take every vaccine offered me, no hesitation, have never regretted it. Been virtually first in line for the covid vaccinations, will jump on the fall booster.

 

[Muse]

I wasn't aware of the age component but there are particular places on the body such as the head that if you get the spots there that the outcome is typically much worse.

When I got it I did some research, of course. I think they said that the chicken pox virus becomes dormant in the spine and where shingles breaks out (if it does) depends on what vertebrae it comes from. Usually it emanates from one, but can come from several. In my case, I think it came from more than one, based on the fact that I had symptoms associated with more than one vertebra emergence.

Shingles is a reactivation of the chicken pox virus, varicella zoster virus. When an immune system fights off chicken pox, the virus isn't eradicated from the body but rather lays dormant in the spinal column waiting for a time when a patient is run down to reappear and cause the skin rash known as shingles. Mar 18, 2016

Was I run down? Well, I was visiting family in Los Angeles. My uncle had given me his 1983 Chrysler Town and Country wagon (I was car-less at the time). I worked out in an L.A. gym I probably had never visited before. I did some squats with a fair amount of weight on a free barbell, an exercise I wasn't used to. I drove the car back to northern California. Soon as I got got home with the car I was hit with shingles. I have never done squats since! Maybe the stress on my spine released the virus, who knows.

 

[Torn Mind]

The one thing I recall was intentionally getting chickenpox to have immunity later. My high school social studies teacher said something about someone(her or someone else) telling her kids to play with someone with chickenpox. She didn't appear to be the crazy type.

 

[Brainonska511]

The one thing I recall was intentionally getting chickenpox to have immunity later. My high school social studies teacher said something about someone(her or someone else) telling her kids to play with someone with chickenpox. She didn't appear to be the crazy type.

It was a widely held view in the public that getting chickenpox earlier in life was better, compared to getting it as an adult. The risk profile for chickenpox was very different compared to something like measles, though there was still risk: such as developing secondary infections or being one of the unlucky ones to have a severe case. Additionally, chickenpox sets you up for shingles later in life, since the virus can hide in nerve cells for decades. Once the vaccine for chickenpox came along, there was zero reason to ever hold a chickenpox party.