Chicken pox

I'm 38 and my brother is 40.

Don't know why we didn't get MMR but got the actual diseases. (I am assuming we didn't have MMR as we had the illnesses).

I don't have that scar thing on my arm either that most people my age have - is that what it's for - the scar I mean?

It's for smallpox.  My 38-year-old sister doesn't have that scar - both my mum and dad do.  But they're auld  .

I don't have that scar thing on my arm either that most people my age have - is that what it's for - the scar I mean?

I'm 36 and I had all of those vaccines separately so I don't have that scar either...

My dad had shingles - apparently it's VERY painful - like having chicken pocks on your insides. Yikes!

Isn't the scar for TB? I had a smallpox vaccination but I don't have a scar from that unless it has faded. I have a TB scar because the first one wore off (the vaccine not the scar!)  and I was revaccinated a couple of years ago.

I believe shingles is caused by the same virus or germ or whatever that gives you chicken pox. If you've had c. pox and you come into contact with the virus again you can get shingles. Or so I've heard.

 The "Scar" at least in the States is from Small Pox vaccinations and they stopped giving them here by 1972.    I know that each state stopped at different times... my sister who is 40 doesn't have one, and we were always told they stopped giving them here in Michigan in 1969.

 And shingles are the adult form of  Chicken pox's.. I've heard they are very painful.
What is shingles?
Each year, an estimated one million Americans are afflicted with herpes zoster, a painful viral infection commonly called shingles, which is caused by the chicken pox virus. Shingles can develop in anyone who has had chicken pox.

I know someone who just had shingles and they weren't painful.  Hers were caught early and she was put on a course of anti-virals.  She's a carer and contracted them from an elderly client.

Chicken pox in kindergarten, and shoot, what was that called, the kissing thing, it would lay you up for about a week, with like a really bad flu, loads of us got it in high school. On the tip of my tongue (no pun intended!).

A WEEK?!

I had it when i was 16, and was off school for 6 WEEKS! 

I had glandular fever when I was 11 and also was only laid up for a week.  But I wasn't allowed to dance ballet for 6 weeks and was REALLY bummed b/c I felt fine. 

Chicken pox in kindergarten, and shoot, what was that called, the kissing thing, it would lay you up for about a week, with like a really bad flu, loads of us got it in high school. On the tip of my tongue (no pun intended!).

The high school virus is Mono (short for Mononucleosis).   

I got mono from common cup communion at church! I was 15 - it was summertime - and I was sick for over a month!  My mom even had the priest come around - I thought he was there for last rights!!!  That's how bad I felt!

Is it true you can't get mono again after having it once?

I got mono from common cup communion at church! I was 15 - it was summertime - and I was sick for over a month!  My mom even had the priest come around - I thought he was there for last rights!!!  That's how bad I felt!

Is it true you can't get mono again after having it once?

Yep, that's how you feel with mono: like you're going to die.  I had a case when I was 14, a case which my doctor at the time said was the worst case he'd ever seen.  Nice, huh?   

Anyway, no, that's not true.  My mother has had it several times.  I, thankfully, have only had it the one time.

Oh, and as far as it being very rare to get chicken pox twice (or more) times, it is.  Rare, that is.  But, I was not misdiagnosed, and I was old enough to remember both of the times clearly.  Rare, yes...but not for someone who was born with no working immune system.  But, that being said, my area manager claims to have had it three times, and I tend to believe her after having it twice (and bad both times - it wasn't as if once was a light case and so I got it again; I was covered, head to toe, both times).   I'm glad it's a rarity, but I think people should be aware that lightening can strike twice (even when "they" tell us it can't).

Yep, that's how you feel with mono: like you're going to die.  I had a case when I was 14, a case which my doctor at the time said was the worst case he'd ever seen.  Nice, huh?   

Anyway, no, that's not true.  My mother has had it several times.  I, thankfully, have only had it the one time.

  God knows I don't want to come off as a know it all but....

Once a person has been infected with Mono, the virus stays in the body for the rest of his/her life and may reappear in the blood stream from time to time since it is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.   
 It is rare to show symptoms or signs of the illness after the initial infection, those with a low or lowered immune systems may indeed do so.
  Just thought I'd share....

  God knows I don't want to come off as a know it all but....

Once a person has been infected with Mono, the virus stays in the body for the rest of his/her life and may reappear in the blood stream from time to time since it is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.   
 It is rare to show symptoms or signs of the illness after the initial infection, those with a low or lowered immune systems may indeed do so.
  Just thought I'd share....

Yeah, she was just having flair ups of the symptons of the virus that remained.  Not pleasant.  That's what I meant; not that you could get it again, or be re-infected, because you are already infected, but you can have the symptoms flair up again by something triggering the virus...if you're unlucky, that is.  I should have made that clear.