Jingles! No its Shingles!

Hey folks, its been a while since I've uploaded a post. :)

Anyways..

About a week ago, I had these electric-shock/sunburnt/pricking/tingling/burning sensation over my upper left side of my body (upper arm and also the chest and back ) whenever anything touched it. It even hurts when shirt lies on top of it! I usually presume pricking sensations with blood circulation problems over the particular area, so I went for the Osim feet massage machine hoping that that would cure it.

But then nop, that did not help..

I tend to get overimaginative at times and that did not help. I was thinking of all the possible causes of this. I went online and read stuff on this. Possibilities were poor blood circulation, stroke, shingles, neuro-smth, bla bla.. couldn't remember a lot of it by now. Haha

The next morning it still felt painful, thus I went to the doc. Doc says its probably an over-sensitive nerve, thus I was prescribed only Vitamin Bs.

Next day, the pain started piercing right into my chest. You know the left side of your chest lies the heart! I initially thought it was just a psychological thing, me imagining stuff, and I tried to ignore it. Hell no, it just kept contracting, piercing. Damn it hurts till my buddy Foo, tried to help by googling "Symptoms of heart attack"! Thanks Foo for "calming" me down hahaha..

Just to be safe, went to the doc again!! LOL. Now doc says muscle thingy, thus was prescribed only muscle relaxants. Those did definitely did help..

However the next day I started to notice small red spots over those "sunburnt" areas. Oh shyt, I suddenly recalled that these are very similar to the symptoms of shingles!! Alright, as sucky as it is to the wallet, I've gotta go to the doc tomorrow!

The next day absolutely sucks. Woke up with a freaking headache. Got extremely intense after about a couple of hrs of waking up. I remember I could hardly WALK. I felt these contraction pains on my stomach area and both my kidneys. Every step I took felt like some kid kicking on my kidneys! No kidding! Oh yeah, met the doctor, and this time, I was officially diagnosed with shingles! Hooray! I was really tired and had fever that night. Pure torture.

Anyways, thank God, I felt much better the next morning and managed to head to class. A bit nauseous and headache added on to the burning pain but I managed to get through the day.

What timing Mr Shingles. I have so much to do at hand atm, plus CNY is just 2 days away. I want to quickly recover for CNY and one of the ways is to Rest rest rest.. But how is that possible?! I have some stuff to do. So am contemplating whether 2 just push through and risk a slow recovery or just REST...

Just-so-that-u-would-not-be-afraid-of-me FACTS of SHINGLES!

• It is caused by the same virus which causes chicken pox. And, chickenpox virus never leaves the body once you had them. It only stays dormant. Which also means that every chickenpox-ed person has this virus. So it doesnt spread. It'll only spread to a non-chickenpoxed person.
  
  
• When the chicken pox virus is activated, one get shingles.