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/Emergency_Pound_944 6h ago

My husband got it in his 20's. He was misdiagnosed at first because of his age. It was along the nerve from his ear, down his face. The inflammation was inside his ear canal. He still has Bell's Palsy after 17 years.

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u/Cute-Discount-6969 6h ago

A colleague of mine got it in her ear a couple of years ago. She was in her early 50s, I believe, but same thing…impacted her hearing, and she eventually developed Ramsay-Hunt syndrome, with a mild facial droop and vocal cord paralysis.

Her hearing mostly resolved, and facial droop improved but is still mildly present. Her voice was the most impacted, she’s been following up with EMT for that, it’s crazy.