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That happened to me when I first started teaching! I had never had chicken pox, and at the age of about 29 I came down with chicken pox and felt like I was going to die. I missed 3 weeks of work and after about 1 week I developed shingles on top of the chicken pox! I had both conditions at the same time. I went to a dermatologist for help and she gave me a strong and very expensive antiviral oral med. She said it was the worse case she had ever seen. It was so bad that she snuck me in through the back door of her office so that none of the other patients would see me!! That bad.
When I had the pox my fever was about 102-104 for 7-8 days straight and then it finally started to come down. I was wearing: a leather coat with liner, a sweatshirt, sweatpants, and a knit cap inside our home and I was still freezing cold (felt like it) but my body temp was over 102.
I thought back to the school and I remember our computer teacher looking like he had shingles on his face. The week or so before I came down with it I had been in his lab. I think it is highly contagious.
Dang maldorf I'm right there with ya. He'll I hide for weeks mine was that bad. At the time some new med had just hit the market and after taking that my hair started to thin. Yeah shingles not test made me go bald lol