{"id":235,"date":"2010-11-03T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyville.org\/xblkx\/?p=235"},"modified":"2013-11-04T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:59:49","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-get-%e2%80%98shingles%e2%80%99-just-don%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t get \u2018shingles\u2019.  Just don\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that explains all the back pain I&#8217;ve been having!<\/p>\n<p>My Valtrex prescription ended up only being $118 (instead of $190 they misquoted on the phone). Walmart was about $80 cheaper. I have no idea how CVS and Rite Aid can remain in business.\u00a0 Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>Those fuckers are huge horse pills, I hate that. They said a common side effect is dizziness and I have a little of it but not too bad. Between only getting 3 hours of sleep last night (bed very late, up very early, yuck) and cooking dinner from 4:30 until 7:45 tonight, I&#8217;m fried.<\/p>\n<p>But dinner was good, the kids loved it. When I was cooking, I made a game of giving them the Myers-Briggs test. When I was working at QI, I had a management course and they had a test where you get 15 sets of 4 words and have to choose one.\u00a0 Many of the words were not easy words, so I had to define them.\u00a0 So they learned about 25 new vocabulary words, learned about their personalities and the differences between us, and had fun for an hour and a half because it was a game!<\/p>\n<p>It was hard though, having no sleep today and cooking for 3 hours, my back has been hurting but at least now I have an explanation.\u00a0 Some people have very severe pain, I just have light pain (most of the time) and bad itching. I have itchy spots on other parts of my body but they so far are not bad and usually short-lived before moving on (usually to a new location), not any worse than how my skin usually is. I hope it isn&#8217;t too late starting the meds because I&#8217;d hate to spend $118 for nothing. It feels very strange, like a sunburn on my lower back, itching around my waistband from my sides to just barely onto the front of my body. and if it&#8217;s itchy and you scratch or touch it, it usually hurts immediately, but not always, it&#8217;s unpredictable. I had a flash of pain that felt like I got stabbed in the back with an ice pick, but it only lasted the duration of a camera flash. And you feel like heat and movement, like there are tiny worms in there sometimes but not always.\u00a0 It&#8217;s constantly both itchy and hurting a little bit. The back pain is annoying, like I strained it, but I haven&#8217;t needed to take anything for it. I hope it doesn&#8217;t get much worse. I have spots on my body that if I press on them, feels like a bruise. It&#8217;s very strange. I don&#8217;t like it, but it is somewhat interesting. It feels a little bit like the body that I am inhabiting is not the same one all the time. It&#8217;s as different sometimes as the difference between what your body feels like when you are drunk compared to sober. It&#8217;s not very attractive to look at, so I won&#8217;t be finding any playmates in the near future LOL<\/p>\n<p>My doctor was surprised that I got it so young.\u00a0 They usually do not vaccinate for this until you&#8217;re 50.\u00a0 If I were you, I wouldn&#8217;t wait that long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that explains all the back pain I&#8217;ve been having! My Valtrex prescription ended up only being $118 (instead of $190 they misquoted on the phone). Walmart was about $80 cheaper. I have no idea how CVS and Rite Aid can remain in business.\u00a0 Unbelievable. Those fuckers are huge horse pills, I hate that. 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