I came down with a nasty case of shingles right after the first ACA Open Enrollment Period ended in April 2014. It was awful, worst pain I’ve ever felt and I couldn’t sleep for weeks. To this day I still suffer from mild Postherpetic neuralgia.
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Postherpetic neuralgia basically means that your pain neurons keep firing long after the shingles itself has gone away; it’s like they get stuck in a loop. To this day (7 yrs later) my right eyebrow itches like mad ALL THE TIME. Not too bad for me but much worse for some people.
Also, my right cornea was damaged to the point that I can never get lasik surgery because there’s too much risk of going blind in my right eye.
Shingles sucks on multiple levels.
Shingles sucks on multiple levels.
It also got into my jaw/teeth...I originally thought I had somehow exposed a nerve under a tooth. It was actually my dentist (I went in for an emergency visit) who told me I had shingles.
One saving grace: Because its nervous system related, it only hits one side of your body.
One saving grace: Because its nervous system related, it only hits one side of your body.
The best way to describe the pain is like the worst sunburn you’ve ever had x100, while simultaneously feeling like your skin is melting off like the “toxic waste” guy in RoboCop.
To clarify: It's like the worst sunburn you've ever had x100 except that it's UNDER your skin.
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