Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[Madhouse Pullet]

Covid has affected my daily life... I am far more careful with my hands because it hurts like heck when you put hand sanitizer on and realize you've got a cut (or more) on your hand!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Maybe I'm incorrect but I thought if you had chicken pox you got shingles and you only got both once? Not sure because I havent had either. I got the chicken pox vax because my dad couldnt remember if I had it or my sister did.

I think you only get chicken pox once but you can get shingles multiple times. I'm a little fuzzy on this, but shingles is caused by the virus that causes chickenpox, lying dormant in nerve tissue near your spinal cord and brain becoming active and causing this painful rash. It's thought that a weakened immune system or stress can activate it. Now that I've had it once, my dr tells me, if I ever get it again, it will always show up on the same side of my body (right), though not always around my neck and head. Good on you for getting the pox vax, now you don't have to worry about it. When we were kids, our parents would have chicken pox parties if one kid got the pox. All the mothers would take their kids to that kid's house to play together in hopes all the kids would get it "and get it over with" as young as possible.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

I think you only get chicken pox once but you can get shingles multiple times. I'm a little fuzzy on this, but shingles is caused by the virus that causes chickenpox, lying dormant in nerve tissue near your spinal cord and brain becoming active and causing this painful rash. It's thought that a weakened immune system or stress can activate it. Now that I've had it once, my dr tells me, if I ever get it again, it will always show up on the same side of my body (right), though not always around my neck and head. Good on you for getting the pox vax, now you don't have to worry about it. When we were kids, our parents would have chicken pox parties if one kid got the pox. All the mothers would take their kids to that kid's house to play together in hopes all the kids would get it "and get it over with" as young as possible.

I remember those days! My cousin had it so my mom sent us over there for a few days until we got it but I ended up getting it again a couple years later, not that bad. The doctors said my 1st case must have been mild to have it again. But now that I think of it, I've never heard of anyone else getting it twice.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Fortunately, when I got shingles, I got to my dr pretty quickly, within 3 days, and he got me on an Rx that started kicking it pretty quickly: oral acyclovir, I believe. So it never got terribly painful. If you think you may have shingles, or just get an odd, unexplained rash on only one side of your body, RUN, don't walk, to your nearest health clinic and ask them to take a look at it. I told the admitting nurse, "I have this ra---" and she goes, "oh dear, you have shingles!"

 

[aart]

My cousin had it so my mom sent us over there for a few days until we got it

My Mom did this too, it did not work.
Got it from my kids when I was in my late 20's.

 

[Madhouse Pullet]

My Mom did this too, it did not work.
Got it from my kids when I was in my late 20's.

Geez, you must had a strong immune system as a kid!? And I hear it's worse as an adult

 

[aart]

And I hear it's worse as an adult

It was awful, raging 3 day fever was the worst.

 

[bruceha2000]

Luckily where I work they said they pay the first week, after that if need be I'd have to file FMLA.

I suspect some smaller companies can't afford to pay people to stay home. So they don't and they spread whatever disease they have to everyone else at work.

But today I am feeling it pretty good! I have to get Part 2 in two to six months. And I absolutely will! Never want shingles again!

You got that right!!!!

I'm constantly worried people are talking about me behind my back.

That's because we are!

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!

"white coat syndrome". This is where your bp is elevated simply from being at the doctors office.

My MIL has that. Along with her high BP. She's a serious worrier. I suspect if she could chill a bit her BP would go lower.

Thats scary because I hear its quite painful.

Shingles was the WORST PAIN in my life. One case of kidney stones comes in a close second, probably because it didn't last as long.

I had chicken pox as a kid, the vaccine and shingles twice.

Chicken pox vaccine or shingles vaccine?

The chickenpox vaccine wasn't available until DD2 was born in 1995.
Should (hopefully) be a LOT fewer cases of shingles in people born in the 80's and later (assuming people got their older kids vaccinated). Though I suppose anyone who never had chickenpox can get the vaccine. Bye bye shingles!! And good riddance.

Got it from my kids when I was in my late 20's.

Chicken pox can kill adults! Glad you only had to suffer horribly for 3 days.

 

[Beer can]

Despite a 97% on-campus vaccination rate, Cornell University reported 898 new COVID-19 cases among students at its Ithaca, New York campus during the week of Dec. 7-13, a "significant number" of which the school has identified as the omicron variant.

On Wednesday, Vice President for University Relations Joel Malina said in a statement to PEOPLE, "Virtually every case of the omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot."

https://people.com/health/c...

 

[All4Eggz]

That's because we are!

JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!!!

That is really not funny. That is a genuine issue that comes with anxiety. To mock someone because of that is just unreal.