shingles on the face

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Hi

I don't know if it is shingles but I do know that you can get

shingles on the face, around the eye area and it can affect the eye

itself.

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Leigh

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On 30 Dec 2008, at 15:48, Gilfish_15 wrote:

> I don't post on here very often either, but i do read alot! It

> doesn't sound like shingles to me. I just got over having shingles

> about 2 months ago. I think usually shingles happen on the trunk of

> the body, mine was on my lower back. Also the rash is really painful,

> plus it usually look like a bunch of little blisters lined up in a

> row. Usually they blister and then they scab up and then slowly start

> to heal up and go away.. Well that is at least my experience with it!

> It sounds like you have some type of weird infection.. Like i said

> this was just my recent experience with shingles.. I hope you can get

> it figured out. I can't imagine how irritating it is to have a rash

> on your face! Hope this helps!

>

> gillian

> wife to Kris

> mother to 3 year old twin girls!

> gleevec 2005-2006

> sprycel 2006-2007

> BMT 2007- no Cml has been found since!

>

>

> >

> > Hey gang-

> >

> > Haven't been on for a while but read messages. I need some advice

> and hope

> > ya'll have it today. To bring you up to snuff on me, I am on

> Syprcel 100mg a

> > day taken at night. I am PCR undetectable at this time. I have

> had what

> > I'll call a rash to the left side of my face for about 3 months.

> Mild in

> > nature. Itches and turns bright red, more so when I get hot or

> body temp heats

> > up. It was able to be under control with use of hydrocortisone

> cream and

> > ointments. It has slowly traveled up along my hairline to my

> forehead and to the

> > right side of my face. I went to the doctor last week and he

> instructed me

> > to see a dermatologist, which I had already set up an appointment

> just cant

> > get into them until the 8th of Jan which is why I went to the

> primary doctor.

> >

> > He wasn't going to do anything about it until I questioned if it

> could be

> > shingles? He said it hadn't crossed his mind until I brought it up

> but decided

> > it could be and put me on valtrex. Besides taking the biggest pills

> I have

> > ever seen in my life, it does seem to have faded it out a little

> bit BUT I now

> > have very red and itchy side of my eyes, the underneath of my eye

> is

> > extremely puffy to they point that I can now see it in my vision

> line and its

> > driving me crazy. I woke up this morning and my other eye is

> starting the redness.

> > This itches extremely bad and the redness and swelling is crazy.

> Does that

> > sound like shingles? or does it sound like an infection? I guess

> you could

> > probably get one from the other right? I guess I will call and

> get back in

> > today but I was wondering if this is related to the sprycel or

> just something

> > caught from the compromised immune system?

> >

> > Any thoughts?

> >

> > Thanks in advance for your help!

> >

> > Hugs & Hope-

> > (36)

> > Wife and mom to 3 (13,9,7)

> > CML 5/13/05

> > Gleevec 800mg until 8/07

> > Sprycel 100mg since 9/07

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