Have any other MSers had shingles. I did several years back. I fell on my arm pretty hard and ended up with a pretty painful bout with shingles from my left shoulder down to the tip of my little finger. This was around 15 years ago.

So I remember wondering why the heck did I fall. Just walking along and Splat! So who knows.... did I fall from the undx ms which led to the shingles.... or did the shingles activate the ms. Which if the latter was the case, though I recall some small incidents prior to shingles, but post shingles many more sx come to mind.

I don't really have a question, but am interested in other's experiences.


http://neurohealth.info/pain_shingles.htm

Shingles
Anywhere from 600,000 to a million people contract shingles in the U.S. each year. Twenty percent of shingles patients experience postherpetic neuralgia—persistent nerve pain.

Shingles is a skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. After a person contracts chickenpox, the virus, called Varicella zoster, lies dormant in the nerves. Things like severe emotional stress or deficiencies in the immune system can trigger or re- activate the virus, causing shingles. It strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe pain radiating along the course of one or more nerves.

Pregnant women, adults who have never had chickenpox, and persons with compromised immune systems should avoid direct contact with anyone suffering from shingles.