Is it possible to get shingles on your butt

Question 1

Is it possible to get shingles on your butt several times in the same area?

Answer

Yes: Shingles is a reactivation of the same virus that causes chicken pox. It typically occurs in the same dermatomal distribution of the body, so to answ... Read More

Question 2

Is it possible to get shingles at age 17?

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Yes: Getting the chickenpox vaccine as an infant usually prevents this however.

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Yes: You can get shingles at seventeen if you had chicken pox earlier in life, Stress, weakened immunity are some of the factors that can cause shingles to... Read More

Question 3

How is it possible to get shingles disease?

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Reactivation: Shingles is a reactivation of the chicken pox virus (varicella-zoster) that lives dormant in nerve cells after the initial chicken pox infection.

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Shingles : Shingles is caused by the same virus responsible for chicken pox . The virus remains in a dormant state until a shingles outbreak occurs years later w... Read More

Question 4

Is it possible to get shingles if you have not had chickenpox but have been vaccinated against it?

Answer

Yes: The vaccine for chickenpox has a small incidence of zoster, although studies have so far shown the frequency is less than that for people who had wild... Read More

Question 5

Is it possible to get shingles without having had chicken pox?

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Yes and no: Chickenpox usually precedes shingles by many years or decades. However, chicken pox can be very mild, and not diagnosed, or the illness may be forgott... Read More

Question 6

Is it possible to get shingles if i never had chicken pox?? or does it always have to be a reactivation of the chicken pox virus? thanks.

Answer

Shingles: You must have had chicken pox, to get shingles. You can also get it if you have been immunized against chicken pox, but it is less likely. Shingles i... Read More

Question 7

Is it possible to get viral meningitis from a shingles outbreak?

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Possibly: A very rare cause of meningitis which occurs in people who are likely immunocompromised.

Question 8

Please explain if it is possible to get shingles twice, having had it an eye? may i take the new vaccine for this?

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Shingles: It is possible to get shingles again and again. The current indication for the shingles vaccine is for adults ages 50 and over.

Question 9

Had shingles once about 2 years ago, is it possible to get it again. now have similar painful burning rash on face near left eye?

Answer

Yes: Recurrences of the nasty illness, in the same place or elsewhere, are common.

Question 10

Can i get shingles at 45?

Answer

Shingles. : You can get shingles at any age.

Is it possible to get shingles on your butt