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Shingles

Also called: Herpes Zoster

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Studies have not proven that L-lysine has any beneficial effects on herpes zoster (shingles).
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Yes...there is a correlation. Chicken pox, shingles, and other forms of herpes (cold sores/fever blisters and even, genital herpes) are ALL caused by...
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Yes. If you had it on both thighs, it would not be shingles. Shingles follows a nerve pathway, and these nerves do not cross over the midline of the...
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Only if the shingles are on your face. Shingles follows a specific nerve pathway.
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You can see this eruption....I cannot, so seeing your dermatologist is the appropriate next step. A description is really not sufficient to make an...
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Only if the shingles is in the ears...called Ramsay-Hunt syndrome. If you had this herpes infection in your ear area, it can also cause tinnitus in...
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Shingles is very painful.  Touching it or not.  You will still have pain.  It can be constant or intermittet.  (of and on.)
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It would not be likely that you would catch shingles or chicken pox from this very cursory contact of just running together. If you did have a close...
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Yes...you can get Shingles if you are adequately re-exposed to the varicella virus (the same herpetic virus that causes chicken pox)
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Most vaccines is a small dose of the live virus. The way it works is it allows your body to build it's own antibodies, so you may get symptoms...
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I have never found that the Shingles vaccine aggravates tinnitus. I got mine....and my tinnitus did not change. It is just as bothersome and annoying...
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I strongly recommend returning to both the eye doctor and a dermatologist. While it isn't common, blindness can be caused if the shingles virus...
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It would be safe, but if you have already had shingles and the vaccination, why get a second Shingles vaccination? Talk to your doctor, but I...
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