shingles??? (Read 721 times)

I got them last March, but I wasn't running at the time. I got it on my left leg. Weird illness I must say. I think getting it on my leg was easier then getting it on the midsection. However, I was already off from running for 2 months since I was battling many illnesses this past winter, the shingles could have been the last sign of a depressed immune system. I didn't start back running until mid April (about a month), but that wasn't because of the shingles but other things. The blisters went away in about a week. The pain/burning sensation went a way in a couple of weeks. The lymph nodes in my leg and hip area went back to normal in about 3 weeks. I think you can run through it (barring the pain), but I would keep it real easy. I have no after effects right now, but when I ever I see a red spot on my leg....

Good luck! I hope you recover quickly. My husband got shingles when he was 41. The same day he was diagnosed with it, our nine-week-old son was hospitalized with RSV (a respiratory virus that's usually not a problem, but can cause babies to have difficulty breathing). So we were stressed out that the baby might have gotten chicken pox, plus DH was not allowed to go to the hospital at all during the six-day stay. On top of all of that, DH had gotten laid off from his engineering job and was in the middle of interviewing for a new position and we had to make decisionis that week! And we had a 2-year-old son at home, also. Looking back on it, I wonder how we survived at all. It was hell. But the good news was that DH recuperated fairly quickly and has had no problems since. Whew!

I went on anti-virals immediately and my blisters never ruptured. Apparently it was caught early.

Well, um, not likely due to the antivirals. They may reduce the total duration of illness from say 10 days down to about 9 days 22.4 hours. They don't do much in shingles. And blister rupturing is unrelated to course and severity.

I had the shingles in January of 2004. It was the January right after I was laid off by AT&T. The funny thing was that I had just celebrated my 10 year anniversary with AT&T, I had gotten a watch with a picture of Goldenboy on it along with a certificate from C. Michael Armstrong. Then, with typical telephone company efficiency, I was laid off. So I was looking arround for a job, and running down at the track and on the treadmill and I was starting to feel a pain on the back of my head. It was keeping me up at night, I saw my family doctor and the first time he didn't know what was causing it. I started looking at sites on the computer like WebMD and started scaring myself thinking that maybe I had cancer or something. I got worse and then it started to scab over. when I returned to see Dr. Winters for a second time he then recognized it as shingles. He gave me this medication that made me feel dizzy and I threw up a lot, and then he gave me something else to counteract the dizzyness. Eventually I felt better and got a temp job working at a Psychiatric Hospital. You are probably wondering why they ever let me out of there. I read someplace--I'm not sure that it is true, if you have to have shingles at all it is better to have them before you are 50 then after. If so, then I caught a break.