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Originally posted by marg6043
I developed singles in a small area of about a quarter ten years ago after been under incredible stress for an unknown diagnostic and following surgery.
The littler patch looked just like blisters and even that small made all my glands in my groin get swollen and painful to the point that I could not walk.
My doctor just look at me and told me it was shingles.
It went away in two weeks.
I never have an episode again.
Originally posted by Deirdre
Personally, I did get the chicken pox vaccine. Why? Because I was 25 years old and had never had the virus. For an adult, getting chicken pox can be life threatening, so I decided to go with the vaccine. Seems logical in my case. I'm not sure it's necessary for children, though. I assumed that the vaccine was meant for people like myself who were at risk as adults. :/
Originally posted by SuicideBankers
Originally posted by Deirdre
Personally, I did get the chicken pox vaccine. Why? Because I was 25 years old and had never had the virus. For an adult, getting chicken pox can be life threatening, so I decided to go with the vaccine. Seems logical in my case. I'm not sure it's necessary for children, though. I assumed that the vaccine was meant for people like myself who were at risk as adults. :/
I have heard this claim before and yet I have not seen any concrete proof beyond what big pharma pushes and wants us to except as truth. Their truth.
Originally posted by Deirdre
reply to post by SuicideBankers
Ah, okay, I misread your post, then. BTW, I have also gone my entire life without getting a cavity! guess I just have good luck?
But yeah, I can't help you with the evidence thing. It all depends on who you trust and want to believe. If you don't believe in scientific studies, or research that comes from certain places, I can't convince you otherwise. But long before any chicken pox vaccine was pushed, parents for generations would "try" to get their kids sick because they knew it was a more dangerous disease as adults. So there's that.
Personally, I work in a pharma lab, testing medicines. It seems pretty legit to me. We're so strictly regulated, that not a week goes by without someone inspecting or touring the lab. It's true that they make a lot of money and design some unnecessary things (cosmaceuticals, we call them, AKA wrinkle creams etc.). But we do actually have to prove that our medicines are safe and effective before selling them. If not, I'd be out of work. I'm not saying it isn't an evil industry that only cares about profits. Certainly there is little care for actually making anyone better (at least at the top; in the lab we do care ofc), and the medicines are sold at sky high prices. Of course, that is what we get for treating healthcare as a for-profit industry in the first place, but that is a rant for a different day...