:frown: I went golfing the other day after sleeping about 4 hours the night before...Later that day I felt a sharp upper back pain along with a sunburn sensation in my left arm...Thinking I just tweaked my back and triggered a nerve, I just kinda ignored it...Then a couple days later I got a couple weird dime size blisters on my left chest and showed my wife and she said I had one on my back too...Now I'm starting to worry, I'm a bit of a hypercondriac
and thinking the worst(skin cancer) so I finally go see a doctor on Monday and he tells me I have Shingles??? Basically it is chicken pox part 2..Apparently the chicken pox virus never goes away, it lays dormant in your spine and sometimes creeps back out using a nerve to surface...that is shingles...It sucks!!! I have them on my left side chest arm and back, luckily I didn't get the more dangerous facial ones...
I turned 40 last month and already falling apart...:redface:
just a heads up to us old farts(even some young ins too) if you get a weird burning sensation on your arms, back, neck etc. on one side of your body and notice a small skin rash the next day..go see a doctor right away..the quicker you treat it the better off you'll be...
and thinking the worst(skin cancer) so I finally go see a doctor on Monday and he tells me I have Shingles??? Basically it is chicken pox part 2..Apparently the chicken pox virus never goes away, it lays dormant in your spine and sometimes creeps back out using a nerve to surface...that is shingles...It sucks!!! I have them on my left side chest arm and back, luckily I didn't get the more dangerous facial ones...
I turned 40 last month and already falling apart...:redface:
just a heads up to us old farts(even some young ins too) if you get a weird burning sensation on your arms, back, neck etc. on one side of your body and notice a small skin rash the next day..go see a doctor right away..the quicker you treat it the better off you'll be...