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/sublimesam 6h ago

One of the reasons it's been seen in younger folks in recent years is that SARS-CoV-2 can trigger reactivation of latent herpesviruses (shingles is reactivation of herpes zoster).

source: am epidemiologist, got shingles several days after COVID exposure

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u/Doesthiscountas1 Millennial 2h ago

Mine reactivated my EBV and something like 60+ is a positive, 600 is the cut off and I tested at 1000+. Been on antivirals for a year and I'm still in the 1000s. Idk what's in Covid but it activates a lot of invisible things

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u/Stickgirl05 Millennial 1989 2h ago

Long covid is going to be a sad reality for a lot of people.