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Harllee for the win...
Harllee unfortunately knows a lot about Shingles having had it 3 times before there was Shingrix.
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Reading this thread makes me happy I got my first Shingrix shot today when I got my lab work done - Thanks Kaiser-Permanente! Tried to get the 2-shot series last year but had had a shingles shot some years ago and the clinic was short on Shingrix, so I didn't make the cut. So far less pain than a flu shot, though the side effects listed are kinda scary reading.
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I would still like to know "why" there is such a bias to Shingles diagnosis with the "one side of the body only" issue. If I am understanding correctly, the virus hides in a major nerve node in the spinal column for decades, then decides to run amok down that nerve. Why can't the virus hide in TWO major nerves, or three or four or ? There are a lot of them, major nerves I mean! More than 30.
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I would still like to know "why" there is such a bias to Shingles diagnosis with the "one side of the body only" issue. If I am understanding correctly, the virus hides in a major nerve node in the spinal column for decades, then decides to run amok down that nerve. Why can't the virus hide in TWO major nerves, or three or four or ? There are a lot of them, major nerves I mean! More than 30.
It can, and does, but usually an outbreak is limited to one spinal sensory nerve and the area of skin served by it (called a dermatome) at a time. And tends to recur in that same distribution. Herpes virus (HSV-1 and 2 or less commonly HHV-1 and 2), which are in the same family as the chicken pox virus (VZV or HHV-3) tends to be even more limited in its outbreak pattern and is often limited to a much smaller area rather than an entire dermatome.
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