Shingles on the Roof

No not the roofs shingles, the type of shingles that are in your body. It's already there, in everyone, but it's inactivated. When you get chicken pox the virus doesn't float away, its in your body but just not activated. I did not even know what shingles was until I broke out. It was itchy and lucky for me in an isolated spot on my forearm. I went to the medicenter and the doctor I saw said because it was not all over my body it was probably shingles. Then prescribed me a lot of antibiotics, HUGE tablets to take 2 three times a day. Thankfully it started to die down and healed. But along the way I took a series of pictures.

One solution to not getting this is to CHILL OUT. Stress and a weakened immune system activates Shingles and will do this to your body.

Day 1: Right now, they were swelling and were tender and itchy. So it sucked.

Day 2: That night I wrapped my arm and put cortisone cream on it. A few of the pores popped.GROSS



Day 3:  I continued to wear the wrap around my arm, and put cortisone cream on it. Took showers everyday to keep it clean. And kept taking my medicine.





Day 4: Here you can see that some are almost ready to pop. It's quite sick actually. Some have already popped.

Day 5: Here a lot of them have popped and are open. I kept at the cortisone cream and medication.

Day 6: Now they are healing. Quite dry and flaky.

Day 7: Still dry and flaky, I picked a little :S Do not recommend it.

ttfn.

H.