Horrible horrible rash

[Cask]

I took the pic away because it was embarrassing

 

[Tilda]

Awww, sorry to hear it was confirmed
Get well soon!


Tilda

 

[Lazarus]

I took the pic away because it was embarrassing

yeah - you should really trim that armpit bush

 

[Tilda]

yeah - you should really trim that armpit bush

Thats what my dad said!
Dad?

 

[Cask]

:kissit:

This thread has become way too personal.

 

[.Wilier.]

Shingle ROCKS tbh.

I had it when I was at school (19 years ago dammit) on my stomach.
I was pretty lucky, whilst it scars horribly and itches like a bitch, if you get it all the way round, you fall in half!!

 

[Addlcove]

for those of us not english and not able to spot a disease from a picture, what exactly is shingels? what´s it do?

gotten curious now

 

[Deacan]

Chicken pox virus.

 

[Tilda]

for those of us not english and not able to spot a disease from a picture, what exactly is shingels? what´s it do?

gotten curious now

When you'r little you usually get chickenpox, once you've had this, it grants you immunity from it, so its rare to have it again. However if you get given the virus when you're older you can develop shingles which is basicly a worse form of it.

After an attack of chickenpox, the varicella-zoster virus retreats to nerve cells in the body, where it may lie dormant for decades. But under certain conditions, usually related to aging or disease, the virus can reactivate and begin to reproduce. Once activated, the virus travels along the path of a nerve to the skin's surface, where it causes shingles.

Shingles' symptoms may be vague and nonspecific at first. People with shingles may experience numbness, tingling, itching, or pain before the classic rash appears. In the pre-eruption stage, diagnosis may be difficult, and the pain can be so severe that it may be mistaken for pleurisy, kidney stones, gallstones, appendicitis, or even a heart attack, depending on the location of the affected nerve.

Doctors can distinguish shingles from chickenpox (or dermatitis or poison ivy) by the way the spots are distributed. Since shingles occurs in an area of the skin that is supplied by sensory fibers of a single nerve--called a dermatome--the rash usually appears in a well-defined band on one side of the body, typically the torso; or on one side of the face, around the nose and eyes. (Shingles' peculiar name derives from the Latin cingulum, which means girdle or belt.) If a diagnosis is in doubt, lab tests can confirm the presence of the virus.

The rash usually begins as clusters of small bumps that soon develop into fluid-filled blisters (vesicles). In turn, the blisters fill with pus (pustules), break open, and form crusty scabs. In about four or five weeks, the disease runs its course, the scabs drop off, the skin heals, and the pain fades. Most healthy individuals make an uneventful, if not particularly pleasant, recovery.

Not everyone sails through without incident, however. Although it's difficult to resist scratching the itchy rash, it's better to keep hands off, as the damaged skin may develop a bacterial infection requiring antibiotic treatment. After such an infection, the skin may be left with significant scarring, some of it serious enough to require plastic surgery.

From here: http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2001/301_pox.html

Tilda

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Wij has had a few similarly nasty 'illnesses'.

The skank.