My Story, My Diagnosis: Nancy's Story

In January 2018, Nancy began to feel a burning sensation on her face. A few days later, she was diagnosed with shingles, a virus that originates from the chickenpox. The rash spread to her eye and mouth before clearing up. Here's her story.

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My name is Nancy Collier and I'm 58 years old. Shingles is a virus that originates from the chicken

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pox. The outbreak started in January of 2018, the first week. The first pain I felt was fire, like a match was laying

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on my face, and severe itching. I saw a medical tent in about three days after the fire feeling started.

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I wasn't sleeping, I developed shingles inside of my mouth, I couldn't eat for maybe three days.

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I work a full-time job. It was very hard to concentrate and get through the day. The shingles developed on top of my eyelid

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and they asked me to go to the emergency room because they said that shingles can cause blindness. But I kept the cream on my eyelids

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and that went away rather quickly. On the left side of my nose, were the shingles developed, I can feel nerve damage.

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It doesn't feel the same as on the right side of my face. To this day, I don't feel like the feeling has come back completely.

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I really hope the shingles has not come back and the vaccination is something I look forward to.

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As soon as you feel the first tingling and suspect that you may have shingles, get to the doctor

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immediately. That does slow down the process.