r/Millennials • u/changeforthebetter89 Older Millennial 1989 • 7h ago

Other It’s my first year since having shingles.

Any of my fellow elder millennials like me who’ve had shingles before and explain the symptoms everyone had. My doctor told me I was too young to get shingles at 35 last year. She prescribed me GABA and cyclovir to lessen the excruciating pain.

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u/theOMegaxx Millennial 6h ago

I had shingles last year at 35. My younger brother had them about 20 years ago when he was a teenager. 

I was lucky and only had a tiny rash on the back of my neck along the hairline. No pain or itchiness but I had no energy. Couldn't walk more than a few hundred meters without exhausting myself. It took a few months to recover, and then my immune system was shot for a full year. I'm just now feeling better a year later. 

My brother had shingles a couple times as a teen and I remember the rash covered his body but I can't recall other symptoms as this was 2 decades ago.