Quote Originally Posted by carole View Post
I am confused is this the chicken pox vaccine then? my daughter did not get her chicken pox until she was 13, it was quite tough at that age, and she had been exposed to it many times as a toddler,but never picked it up.

My son had shingles at about 22, for him there was very little pain, but then i read in young people that is often the case,i still query that diagnosis myself, and think it was wrong, still we shall not know for sure, that is what the doctor said,he never had pain, just a mess on his back, which could easily have been excema (sp).
Maybe it depends on where the shingles is on your body. I have a friend who had it on her back and she said that it wasn't painful but itchy. Mine was on my right hip, along my waistline and down my right leg. It caused the neuropathy that I'm now on meds for. It was quite painful and when I had it, it's the only time that I ever called off work. I couldn't get comfortable, couldn't sleep, so there was no way I could work.