Self Pity! WTF?

**MacDaddy** · 11-01-2006, 08:09 PM

Preface: I usually don't share stories about unfortunate things that happen to me but this one sure sucks. Sorry if I ramble on, but I’m "on" some real fun meds (Vicoprofenwhich I specifically suggested

and obviously my inhibitions have dropped a notch.

So I had a birfday bash of all birfday bashes planned for this weekend in Denver.
I had a Friday line up that included strippers and blow.
Visits to dive bars that I had never visited.
A limo and more S&B.

Saturday's agenda included a tee time @ Fossil Trace, a VIP dinner with close friends at Swimclub 32.", 10 tickets to the AVSVs Canucks, and a penthouse hotel room downtown for just me and my wife-the first time we would have been out together sans the kids in about 4 years….its all gone now! all gone!

It started with the flu last weekend, I was pretty sick but I pushed through work, I started to feel better by Thursday so I worked out real hard on Thu & Fri, and played a tough flag football game on Sat.

So Monday morning comes and I wake up with a heavy headache on the left side of my face. It feels like some one is sticking sticks in my eye, my neck is sore and my scalp feels tight and is quite painful.

I suck it up go to work both Mon and Tue, but last night was painful and I realized that if this "migraine" didn't clear up I would certainly be in jeopardy of being sick enough not to be able fly to Denver for the weekend that I had been planning for at least a year.

1:30 in the morning ticks in, & I wake up to a strong painful muscle contraction on my scalp. I couldn't fall back asleep so I logged on the internet to do some research on migraines and during my research I included spider bites because recently I have noticed more than a few HOBO Spiders, running around the house. After some in-depth research I was convinced that I had been bitten by a Hobo and that I needed an anti venom...haha!

I get to the Dr. today, and in less than 3 minutes after I give him my auto diagnosis, he blurts out "no you have shingles."

So who has had it? What can I expect?

I still cant believe that ME, MacDaddy has some fuking virus named like a roofing material! lol!!! classic.

**str8line** · 11-01-2006, 08:15 PM

You have shingles, the hookers(strippers) have crabs. What's the problem?

**rideit** · 11-01-2006, 08:29 PM

I had it as a 14 year old kid, one of the more miserable events of my childhood. Ask for some oxycontin, they will give it to you. Hang in there. And don't pick!

**Viva** · 11-01-2006, 08:36 PM

I had shingles 10 years ago. It came on after I fell twice during a 12 hour race (On the same downhill section of the trail, so when I fell I kinda rolled so that I would fall on my back- this is something I learned from cycling).

About a week later I get this ring of small blisters from spine to sternum, exactly following the path of the spinal nerves. Very painful and it was very sensitive to the touch. Shingles, Bitch!

Shingles arises from the Herpes Zoster virus that causes chicken pox. If you had chix pox as a wee pimp, you have the potential to get shingles as an adult.

I never had headaches from this, though, and it concerns me that you're feeling migrain-like pain. Your doc isn't a quack?

And stop fucking random hobos you find on the street!

**Tresckow** · 11-01-2006, 08:37 PM

I've got the day off tomorrow, would you like me to come over and make you some soup? How about whiskey and safety materials?

**Bring On The Snow** · 11-01-2006, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by MacDaddy

10 tickets to the Avs Vs Canucks.

canucks are gunna kick the shit outa the aves any way.

Go Canucks Go

**iceman** · 11-01-2006, 08:50 PM

Dude you could have clapboards, keep on trucking.

**skimoore** · 11-01-2006, 08:52 PM

One of my co-workers just recovered from it...he was out for a couple weeks, and half his face was paralyzed...he just finally recovered full function. From what I understand localized paralysis is quite rare, so I doubt you'll have that problem.

Sorry to hear about it.... ++++vibes++++

**runethechamp** · 11-01-2006, 10:46 PM

Sorry to hear about this, but here's a piece of advice. Next time you have something important and cool lined up for you and you get sick, don't start pushing through workouts and shit. Work maybe, but let your body get a chance to heal up.

**splat** · 11-01-2006, 10:53 PM

Mac, the Bangkok Police called. They want to talk to you
They said there's been a similar outbreak across Thailand.
Except they call it, let me see if I can translate this, "shingles with nails still in."

Sounds like a stress-induced outbreak. No more secret Asian junkets for you.

**mrw** · 11-02-2006, 07:24 AM

Two friends have gone through it. It is not pleasant at all. Both seem to have had it on the torso.In their case, oatmeal baths helped relieve the pain but in your case, I don't think that would work without a snorkel. Take some time off ,relax and hopefully it will be a short bout.

**365wp** · 11-02-2006, 09:29 AM

Hope the doc put you on anti-viral stuff right away. I know somebody who got it. It's been about eight months, it's looking like she has permanent nerve damage and possible vision loss (her pupil doesn't adjust to light so well any more).

Shingles can be minor (another friend had a minor case, cleared up quick) or, in a small percentage of cases, really bad shit.

**truth** · 11-02-2006, 09:45 AM

Return them to Home Depot. Should be worth some $.

**MacDaddy** · 11-02-2006, 09:48 AM

its getting worse! its spread around my eyes

I'm off to see the eye doctor

**Below Zero** · 11-02-2006, 09:53 AM

You are just like me. I notice a symptom and then I get on the internet and find the disease that I have. Once I find it I am convinced I have this disease until I go to the doctor and find out otherwise. I admit that I am a hypochondriac.

sorry about the news. sound like you'll pull through!

**Tippster** · 11-02-2006, 10:00 AM

Posi-vibes for the Macdaddy being sent from DC. This sounds like it sucks bad.

**LaBelle23** · 11-02-2006, 10:03 AM

I had it as a kid. It can be really dangerous around your eye becuase it can damage your optic nerve. Mine traveled from my eye back towards my ear. It was worse than chicken pox for me. Hope you start feeling better soon!

+++++vibes++++++

**Ski Monkey** · 11-02-2006, 10:09 AM

++++++, get better macdaddy!

**Brock Landers** · 11-02-2006, 10:11 AM

I had it 3 years ago. Blisters around my waist in a line from my spine. Very painful. I was 21 and the doc said its more painful as you get older. Theres really nothing to do for it besides do a ton of drugs so you dont feel a thing. In a couple weeks it will just disappear. Of course youre susceptible to get it again. Try and get some heavy duty drugs to dull the pain, suck down a few brews, and hit the strip clubs.
The doc might have told you this- but a heavy workload and stress is what probably did it. All that lifting and working when you were sick led to it. Now that youve already got it, might as well party.

**iggyskier** · 11-02-2006, 10:11 AM

I had it for several weeks around Spring Break my freshman year in College (2.5 years ago @ 18 years old).

It began as just a rash. Went to my local College clinic, they said it was just a rash as well. Finish out all the school work I had to do before Spring break, then left for Utah. We were in Utah for 10 days, and I notice that rash about 5 days before we left. The rash wrapped around the left side of my chest, around my armpt, and onto my back.

On maybe the 5th day in Utah, the pain had become extremely bad. Constant burning. Just constant.

Went to Urgent Care there and they put my on the Anti-viral stuff. This was 10 days after the rash started. So, get on the anti-viral stuff ASAP! The people there pissed I had already been to to the doctor and nothing had happened. They didn't even know how much the anti-virals would help. Started taking that, it really didn't do much.

The sores from the Singles were around for maybe 3 more weeks before they completely healed. They definitely left scars on my chest and my bad. The worst part is that, because it was not treated fast enough, there was some nerve damage my chest and back. To this day, I still get burning sensations at least several times a month in my back and chest. Bad enough that they are bothersome.

Good luck with it. I know those few weeks sucked a lot.

Edit: Reason for it was stress as well. Just gone thru Midterms.

**motown_fatty** · 11-02-2006, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by MacDaddy

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So who has had it? What can I expect?

Sorry to hear!! Get well soon!

On another note, you mentioned your kids. How old are they? Our youngest son (just turned one) ended up getting the chicken pox from my Mother in Law (who had shingles) about a week before he was scheduled to get his c.pox vaccine (our four year old, who had the vaccine when he was one, did not).

**Tri-Ungulate** · 11-02-2006, 10:41 AM

Like IS mentions above, antivirals are the mainstay of singles outbreaks, but they are really most effective if given within 72 hours of initial symptoms. Outside that window, they may be effective, but perhaps less so. Nonetheless your doc ought to have started you on someting like Valtrex or something - I hope that's the case, especially with the eye involvement which can be potentially bad. Sometimes they add a mild steroid like prednisone for the inflammation. Plus pain meds.

Sorry it happened, especially at a sucky time for you. Hope it clears up sooner rather than later. Crusty stuff oughta go away in a week or so, though total resolution sometimes takes up to a month.

**snowsprite** · 11-02-2006, 10:44 AM

Damn MacDaddy...that sounds pretty awful! I hope you feel better soon. Stay off the roof for a while, okay?

Sprite

**MacDaddy** · 11-02-2006, 11:05 AM

wow thanks to all for the good vibes and stuff.

Im on all the anti viral stuff and suppposedly I got on it early enough. but its spreading near my left eye and my "noble brow"

is getting all rashed up! sweet!

The Irony is killing me! this is reminds me of the book & the 1945 movie "The Picture of Dorian Grey," any one read it or seen the movie?