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Originally Posted by jadabug  I haven't had them, but my Mom had them really bad about 6 months ago. She is still under dr. care for them. They were so bad they caused nerve damage. She is still on medication. Get to the dr as soon as you can. She waited about 2 days, and by then the pain was unbearable. Her side and back looked like someone had beat her with a whip. They are contagious, my dad got the shingles vaccination as soon as the dr. diagnosed her.
Luckily he didn't get them too. |
"shingles" are not contagious. Shingles is the varicella virus/ chicken pox vaccine that is already in the person's body. You can get chicken pox from open pustules if you never had before but not shingles.