Doctor Herpes

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As M2 said, shingles hits all ages.  I believe my father had ten days worth of meds when he had it. ar – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I’m 50. Isn’t that a little young, statisically. I know young people get it. But aren’t most cases in people 60 and over? Second, I got Famvir and it is working well. But the doc only gave me like three and a half days worth. Shouldn’t I get more?

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My mother had shingles when she was about 48-50 yrs old and I know of a girl that had it at 25 years old. From what I understand, if you have the herpes varicella zoster virus in your body it can come out as shingles later in life. I had chicken pox when I was 5 yrs old so I can get shingles later in life. You carry this virus forever as you do with Simplex and Epstein Barr, also herpes virii.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – As M2 said, shingles hits all ages.  I believe my father had ten days worth of meds when he had it. ar I’m 50. Isn’t that a little young, statisically. I know young people get it. But aren’t most cases in people 60 and over? Second, I got Famvir and it is working well. But the doc only gave me like three and a half days worth. Shouldn’t I get more?

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I’m 36 and I’ve got it. My little sister was in her 20s when she had it. My doctor gave me 7 days of Famvir-it doesn’t seem to be doing anything 4 days into it. He did say it was a really expensive treatment, maybe your doctor’s trying to cut costs? Claire — "…The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger "  – Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little  temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m 50. Isn’t that a little young, statisically. I know young people get it. But aren’t most cases in people 60 and over? Second, I got Famvir and it is working well. But the doc only gave me like three and a half days worth. Shouldn’t I get more?

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Just to follow up — I was supposed to get 21 Famvir pills, but the pharmastict shorted me. We got some more pronto. I started taking them about 24-36 hours after I noticed an odd rash starting out as what looked like bug bites. With 48 hours of taking the pills, the situation started to clear up. After seven days and 21 pills (the prescribed protocol) this have cleared up substantially and pain is 90 percent gone.

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I’m 50. Isn’t that a little young, statisically. I know young people get it. But aren’t most cases in people 60 and over? Second, I got Famvir and it is working well. But the doc only gave me like three and a half days worth. Shouldn’t I get more?

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miscellaneousmedia writes: I’m 50. Isn’t that a little young, statisically

I don’t think I’ve ever seen stats on Shingles broken down by "age". But from personal experience, just people I know, Shingles hits all ages. Young, old, everything in between. I wasn’t aware of a prevalence. I got Famvir and it is working well. But the doc only gave me like three and a half days worth. Shouldn’t I get more?

Again, Shingles isn’t my bag but I would think you’d need more than that. Maybe the doc thinks it’s a mild case that can be zapped that quickly and he’s saving you money. You’ll know after a couple of days though. You can always call him back and get more. M2

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