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HOW I SUCCEEDED AT SURVIVING SHINGLES!

Two years ago I was moving at a breakneck speed and surviving shingles wasn’t on my mind, in fact I had no idea what shingles was!  I had accepted a new job, closed on new a house, decided to LIVE in that house while it was renovated and was generally an emotional stressed out mess.

Then, shingles happened.

I had no idea what shingles were before I got it.  Shingles is a form of chicken pox, and is called herpes zoster (no, not that type of herpes.)  The zoster virus lays dormant on your nerves until something triggers them.  My particular kind of horror was called Zoster Opthalmicus as it eventually affected my eye. Read on to find out how I survived shingles.

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