Don't worry, that's just my lower back not my ass cheek or anything. I'll just cut to the chase. It would appear that I have a fucking mild case of shingles. Yes, shingles.

Eerily this rash started the day after Mosh, eitje and I hung out at this coffee shop here in town. Ian what did you bring with you? It's probably the itchiest thing I have ever had on my body. I waited over a week applying Cortisone cream to it to help with the itching, thinking it was just an allergic reaction to something. But what "something"? I hadn't changed soaps, detergents, diet, and hadn't been outside in any leaves, grass, or around bugs that I was aware of.

So I went BACK to the god damn doctor's office for the second time this year to get it checked out on Friday morning. I gave the doctor the run-down of my symptoms and the odd joint-pains that I was getting while Lucas and I were driving to pick up Ian, and the really bad joint-pains that Sunday night after we all hung out. That is a potential sign of shingles, as is general malaise and feeling sick. But the one thing I didn't have that is almost universal in shingles outbreaks is any pain, or burning sensations at all. Just an INSATIABLE itch. I have a few more spots on my right side over my ribs too. Anyway the doctor says it'll go away in two weeks, and if it does it is most definitely shingles. If it doesn't go away in two weeks it is probably an allergic reaction to something and I'll need to go back and get a prescription for something.

So Sasha... is that what your bumps on your chest feel like? Also Lucas, I remember you saying you were having joint pains too... IAN IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL.

Does poison ivy grow in Texas?

Yes it does, but like I said I was not traipsing around outside anytime recently.

Shingles is kind of cool in that it only affects one side of your body, on either the left side or right side of the middle of your body (spine). Check out some of these crazy photos that show this:






Anybody who has had chicken pox can get shingles. Also anybody with shingles can give somebody who hasn't had chicken pox or the chicken pox vaccine, a bad case of chicken pox.

Post fucked up pics in the fucked up pic thread.

It never gets old saying this...... You have herpes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles

HOT!

Ian's visits always become a legacy of stories and a lifetime of lore...

weird, i was just talking about shingles & chicken pox with some guys from work, explaining how they're in the same viral family as simplex.

it's really cool, too, because it actually lives in your nervous system!  AWESOME.

The miracles of medicine ...

The maladies of man ...

I had scabies recently. Thank you, Selsun Blue!

Oh yeah, has anybody ever had a canker sore on your uvula? Friday it was irritating me badly and I thought maybe I had a hair stuck in my throat after going down on my lady friend. I even had her grab a flashlight and shine down my throat and she couldn't see anything. Well apparently it was my uvula starting to get red and gross. Why?

Here's a photo because I know you all love my photos.



It is pretty painful, but the worst is that it is so swollen that it dangles on the back of my tongue so I have been gagging all day. Ice cream helps.

Also, I left this out of the sex forum because it's not real sexy but I threw up big time after we had bedroom fun on Friday night haha. I guess it was the stupid uvula (which what the hell is that even used for?) being irritated. She heard me in the kitchen and when I came back to bed she was like "did you just throw up" and I said yeah, and she kissed me anyway. Awww. Haha. Then we had more fun!

Kyle: The new Sasha...

I thought uvula-chaffing only came about from frequent and rough deep-throating...

I thought uvula-chaffing only came about from frequent and rough deep-throating...

I threw up big time after we had bedroom fun

IAN IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL.

Thanx for the heads-up, mang!

Now,

which one of you dudes is Ian, again?


Hmmm ...

If it's super itchy, that sounds more like chicken pox than shingles,

and since chicken pox Will cover your body, you'll know which it is, shortly.

He's a multi

The drunks with the funny accent.

Wait, that won't help...

The fat older drunk with the funny accent...

The fat older drunk with the funny accent...

This could be me in a year or two!

How did I word that? Like yours... only different.

Well I am starting to feel ill again.  I don't know if it is because I slept too much but my head feels like someone is crushing it between their palms, I have a sore throat, and I am cold.  I seem to feel like this every couple of weeks recently.  If I want to get sick I want it to just happen already.  This almost sick, almost not sick, business is getting old.

I woke up with a hangover this morning.... OR yesterday morning technically.
I only had one beer, but I'd eaten a big tub of very off raita on Saturday night.
Bad news. There are some foods it's better to waste by throwing out than to eat.

I had to Google "raita". "Off" raita sounds terrible dude.

Fyrenza darling, I had chickenpox as a child.

If the sore doesn't go down by Tuesday, I'm going back to the doctor again. I want everything all good by 10/31 when I board that plane at 6:05am.

You actually still CAN get it in later life, however, it's not likely ...

Shingles can also trigger it as well, even if you've had it because of how your body handles immunity ...

Again, also very rare ...

Thanx, Dave!

And Baggy?

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/122425.html

i didn't post the stuff i found about your canker sore, presuming you had googled it, but just in case:

http://www.disabled-world.com/medical/alternative/homeremedies/canker-sore-remedies.php

And Baggy?

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/122425.html

No indication if the infected had previously had chicken pox, or had the vaccine, or had nothing.  Certainly not what I would consider reliable investigative reporting.

With the molluscum, shingles, and sores, I'd estimate that your immune system is breaking down and that you probably have HIV.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108890&sectionid=3510212

I'd follow that theory if he all of a sudden contracted Bird Flu ....

It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the sores again...

See, Sash's getting clever in her age ...

I actually laughed out loud ...
... good show

Skinny chixs is funneh!