# Bosda Di'Chi's Emergency--follow up report. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953 "2001-10-22T21:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/1 "2001-10-22T21:57:25Z")
Not a bad back. _ **SHINGLES!** _ Yes, no sooner than I read the recent thread on Chickenpox vaccines, I contracted shingles. ☹ BLEAGH! 😛 I really hurts. It itches!! Like Hell. Yuck! 😛 The muscle pains & stiffness fooled me into thinking I had a back injury. The rashes & blisters didn’t start until after I posted last night. I’ve been given pain killers, & a drug that helps control viral diseases. [sub]Doesn’t cure it, though.[/sub] I was fooled. According to my doctor, a lot of physicians are fooled by this , too. The chest pains are sometimes mistaken for cardiac disease. Sorry if I worried anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/2 "2001-10-22T22:09:20Z")
Ouch! Shingles are supposed to be really, really painful. Hope your case clears up quickly and never returns. My mom had a bad bout several years ago and nothing since then, so I know that is possible. Any _good_ painkillers? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/3 "2001-10-22T22:48:51Z")
No entertainment value in _these_ painkillers. Oh, well. Perhaps I can sleep in my own bed tonight, instead of that overstuffed chair. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/4 "2001-10-23T00:26:30Z")
Owie. Poor **Bosda**! I’ve never had them but my Mom did and I know what she went through. It was one of the few times I ever heard my mother cuss. My sympathies. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/5 "2001-10-23T12:29:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*Yes, no sooner than I read the recent thread on Chickenpox vaccines, I contracted shingles. > \*\* I shoulda known that thread was going to be trouble when I started it, sorry man. My MIL had shingles last year, no fun whatsoever. The really weird thing is that after a while it settled in her eyes of all places. She had to be on some funky eyedrops for a time. Here’s to a speedy recovery. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/6 "2001-10-23T14:57:01Z")
Hope you feel better, Bosda. And how does one get those things? Are they from stress? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/7 "2001-10-23T15:30:26Z")
My sympathies, Bosda! I hope your recovery is swift. They’re caused by a virus, Vanilla. Here’s some info: [What Are Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus)?](http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.50895) ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/8 "2001-10-23T15:41:43Z")
Ooops I’m sorry **Violet**! I think my brain was on V-overload, there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/9 "2001-10-23T15:54:22Z")
Feeling better this AM. Blisters going down under the effect of the pills. Pain going away. I still itch like **hell** , though. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/10 "2001-10-24T05:30:07Z")
Ellen, thanks for the link/info. Another thing to hope I never get!! Glad you feel better, Bosda. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/11 "2001-10-24T13:34:00Z")
Back at work, but mat not stay. **I itch, DAMMIT!** :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bosda-dichis-emergency-follow-up-report/88953/12 "2001-10-24T13:45:46Z")
_scratch scratch scratch_ …left? right? up? there? here, right? guess so. _scratch scratch scratch…_