What happens to your health after shingles?

Answer 1

You can only get shingles if you have had chicken pox (varicella) or have had the chicken pox vaccine. Once you get infected with chicken pox and then recover the virus that caused the chicken pox never leaves your body, instead it retreats to a nerve in the body were it will remain forever. If at some later point your immune function is decreased do to advancing age, illness, stress, or certain medications the virus can reactivate itself. When that happens you get shingles not chicken pox. If you are exposed to someone with active weeping shingles you can get chicken pox from them if you have never had chicken pox but you cannot get shingles from them. If you have had chicken pox and are exposed to someone with shingles you are not at risk of contracting anything from them. Chicken pox is a type of herpes virus and like oral and genital herpes you don't ever get rid of it from your body.

Answer 2

Shingles is an infection of the central nervous system, in particular, the dorsal root ganglia of the spine, which migrates through sensory nerves to the skin. There it manifests (usually on the upper trunk) as painful, bumpy, fluid-filled eruptions or vesicles. Shingles may also cause nerve pain (neuralgia). The affected areas of skin are those supplied by sensory nerves radiating from the infected dorsal root ganglia. Sensory nerves from these ganglia serve non-overlapping, sharply bounded strips or areas of the skin called dermatomes. Because the left and right sides of the body are divided into separate sets of dermatomes, shingles lesions do not cross the midline of the body.

As a person who has had shingles in the past, I can tell you that it is incredibly painful. It was if my nerves were on fire. It left me with permanent scars and some nerve damage which causes occasional reoccurring pain. An early warning sign is a sort of tingling sensation in the nerve for a few days before the rash breaks out. If you experience this, immediately go in to the doctor because they can supply you with a shot to lessen the resulting rash and pain. If you wait like I did, they will not be able to help you after the rash forms and you will have to spend a few weeks in immense pain.

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Answer 3

This: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/shingles1-13-01.jpg Also, you will officially have a form of herpes.

Answer 4

Not neccesarily, but you can get Shingles after you had chickenpox. This doesn't mean you will get it, but you can.

Answer 5

herpes zoster - chicken pox

leaves a virus in your nerves

after some decades it may come back up as shingles

this is usually the last time it gives problems

Answer 6

The effects of shingles can be a lifelong rash that stays painful. Shingles, if bad enough, can also cause skin scarring, and prolonged pain felt in the area of the torso.

Answer 7

Yes