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Hey guys, I spent several hours yesterday in the Urgent Care (waiting!). I woke up Sunday with some unusual abdominal pain. This followed on Monday morning with more pain and some odd skin sensitivity on the right side of my body starting at the middle of my abdomen and wrapping around to the midline of my back.
Tuesday AM, more pain, more skin sensitivity and that night, I had a little place on my side that looked like poison ivy, but didn't itch.
Wed AM...PAIN!!!!!! Holy shit, pain!!!
Anyway, the doc said it's shingles (39 years old, what in the HELL???), gave me 7 days of Valtrex and 5 days of Prednisone and told me to stay on my ass until Sunday.
Now, he told me that the rash and pain are going to hang around for a while but I can get back to regular activity Sunday. Anyone that's had it, how did you work around this crap to train? Just feeling a t-shirt brush over the rash feels like fire. The neuropathic pain (through the muscle, down to the guts!), I can handle, but this rash is a motherfucker.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Tuesday AM, more pain, more skin sensitivity and that night, I had a little place on my side that looked like poison ivy, but didn't itch.
Wed AM...PAIN!!!!!! Holy shit, pain!!!
Anyway, the doc said it's shingles (39 years old, what in the HELL???), gave me 7 days of Valtrex and 5 days of Prednisone and told me to stay on my ass until Sunday.
Now, he told me that the rash and pain are going to hang around for a while but I can get back to regular activity Sunday. Anyone that's had it, how did you work around this crap to train? Just feeling a t-shirt brush over the rash feels like fire. The neuropathic pain (through the muscle, down to the guts!), I can handle, but this rash is a motherfucker.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.