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Sweet Mother of God, I'm on Fire!

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The Dancing Peacock

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I got chicken pox. damn this sucks. Got the fever Friday, noticed Saturday afternoon that the rash started. Sunday it spread, no big deal. Monday, my body erupted, still okay, no itching, but the rash was all over my face, back, arms, everywhere. Now everything is slathered in calomine spray, I'm taking Benadryl, and I still want scratch my scalp raw. In addition to my back, chest, arms and groinal region. 🙂

I'm not very happy about this. I have to not be at work for at least a week. I'm sick of TV and DVD's, I can't use the computer room too much b/c I'm "quarantined" for everyone else's health.

At first I couldn't imagine why people said that adult chicken pox was so bad, now I'm finding out. I have no clue how I got it either, that's probably the worst part of it.
 
wait, is 'adult' chicken pox a seperate disease from 'kid' chicken pox? as in could i get adult chicken pox if ive already gotten kids?
 
How old are you? 6?

How did you manage to not get chicken pox when you were a child? 😕

It would have been much easier. 😛 It's actually much more serious when you get it when your older.
 
Originally posted by: JudistPriest
wait, is 'adult' chicken pox a seperate disease from 'kid' chicken pox? as in could i get adult chicken pox if ive already gotten kids?
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I believe they are the same, unless chicken pox mutated or something. But if the case of chicken pox you had when you were young was not particularly strong, you could still contract it, hence those rare people who catch it twice.
 
Originally posted by: JudistPriest
wait, is 'adult' chicken pox a seperate disease from 'kid' chicken pox? as in could i get adult chicken pox if ive already gotten kids?
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its the same, its just that children's immune systems are far more robust than adult's.
 
Man .......... if your an adult the Cicken Pox are called "Shingles" and can be quite dangerous :Q

Take care dude.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Man .......... if your an adult the Cicken Pox are called "Shingles" and can be quite dangerous :Q

Take care dude.

Cheers,
Aquaman
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you can get shingles if you get chicken pox for a 2nd time as an adult. It's the same virus. What happens is that it never leaves you, and it stays dormant in your nerve cells. If you get exposed again, it can reactivate the virus and cause shingles.

By adult, I meant that I am an adult and I got them. I never had any childhood diseases, like measles or mumps, chicken pox used to be on the list, but not anymore.
Saw the doctor today, she gave me valtrex which is normally used for herpes, but since varicella (the chicken pox virus name ) is in the same family as herpes, it is effective.

I can't sleep, I itch too much. This is not fun. It's particularly painful, but it's the most miserable experience I've ever had. I itch all over, I have these little growths filled with pus all over my body. The sick thing is that I'm looking forward to them bursting because that means I shouldn't be getting anymore and they should start scabbing over. When they all scab over, I'm not contagious anymore and the end will be in sight. I still have another 5 days of this to deal with.
 
I had them in january... and I can still see some of the marks on my chest 🙁

don't itch and scratch what ever you do!
 
wait, is 'adult' chicken pox a seperate disease from 'kid' chicken pox? as in could i get adult chicken pox if ive already gotten kids
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Nope, same thing. If you haven't been exposed to chicken pox as a child, which requires some degree of infection to produce an immune response, you can get them as an adult. You can even get them twice if the first infection didn't produce a strong enough immune response, but that is uncommon, and the second infections are usually minor.

Contracting primary chicken pox as an adult can actually be dangerous, fatal in fact. It can produce inflammatory responses in the lungs and other organs. There are a few fatalities every year.

Treating adult chicken pox and shingles with an antiherpetic antiviral such as acyclovir is strongly indicated for this reason. They're always pushing Valtrex these days, which is essentially the same drug as acyclovir, costs four to five times as much, and is at best only 30% more effective.

4 x the cost but 1.3 x the effectiveness, sounds like a good value to me!
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The important thing for those reading who haven't had chicken pox is to get vaccinated against them so this doesn't happen to you.
 
i remember when i was young, one of my friends got it and all the adults stuck us in the same room (about 5 of os) so we'd all get it over with.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
wait, is 'adult' chicken pox a seperate disease from 'kid' chicken pox? as in could i get adult chicken pox if ive already gotten kids
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Nope, same thing. If you haven't been exposed to chicken pox as a child, which requires some degree of infection to produce an immune response, you can get them as an adult. You can even get them twice if the first infection didn't produce a strong enough immune response, but that is uncommon, and the second infections are usually minor.

Contracting primary chicken pox as an adult can actually be dangerous, fatal in fact. It can produce inflammatory responses in the lungs and other organs. There are a few fatalities every year.

Treating adult chicken pox and shingles with an antiherpetic antiviral such as acyclovir is strongly indicated for this reason. They're always pushing Valtrex these days, which is essentially the same drug as acyclovir, costs four to five times as much, and is at best only 30% more effective.

4 x the cost but 1.3 x the effectiveness, sounds like a good value to me!
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doc gave me 5 doses of samples she recieved, free. Plus my health insurance has excellent Rx coverage, so I'm not too worried.
 
I had it when I was 3 years old, so I'm good 😀

But yeah, as you get older, the conditions worsen, luckily you only get them once in your lifetime...
 
Originally posted by: Eli
How old are you? 6?

How did you manage to not get chicken pox when you were a child? 😕

It would have been much easier. 😛 It's actually much more serious when you get it when your older.
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You know chicken pox can cause brain damage right? I took vaccines when I was like 11. We don't have chicken pox in Trinidad.
 
i didn't get it until i was 20 :Q last year... maaaaan was that bad... and my college professors didn't cut me any slack... so i was out for 3 weeks... 🙁
 
Originally posted by: boyRacer
i didn't get it until i was 20 :Q last year... maaaaan was that bad... and my college professors didn't cut me any slack... so i was out for 3 weeks... 🙁
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3 weeks, you gotta be kidding me. Doc told me about 7 days. Why did it take so long for you to recover
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Originally posted by: Eli
How old are you? 6?

How did you manage to not get chicken pox when you were a child? 😕

It would have been much easier. 😛 It's actually much more serious when you get it when your older.
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You know chicken pox can cause brain damage right? I took vaccines when I was like 11. We don't have chicken pox in Trinidad.
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You for real?

:Q
 
even though you want to, and you can feel it, don't scratch around your groin.

otherwise you'll be annanova's next exploding penis story...
:Q
wow. and I thought my day sucked...



get better sooooon.
 
Originally posted by: JSClark
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Originally posted by: Eli
How old are you? 6?

How did you manage to not get chicken pox when you were a child? 😕

It would have been much easier. 😛 It's actually much more serious when you get it when your older.
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You know chicken pox can cause brain damage right? I took vaccines when I was like 11. We don't have chicken pox in Trinidad.
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You for real?

:Q
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That's what they said on the pamphlets I was reading while waiting for my vaccine.


I think the reason chicken pox is a common thing that everyone has to get is because people believe that's the way it has to be, so they stick 4 healthy kids in a room with a stick one to make them all sick. If HIV was thought of as normal, everyone would have it too.
 
Chicken Pox as an adult can be very dangerous? You didn't get vacinated? You live in a third world country?
 
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