Not sure if I told you all - I probably did, because I've been so rotten with it. I hurt my back a few weeks ago, and had pain in the sciatic nerve as a result?
It has been lingering on and on driving me nuts. And Thursday afternoon I found out why! I suddenly started feeling as if my trackpants were full of ants! Itch, scald, etc. Went to the bathroom to have a look and discovered I was out in the most horrible rash! Accross my back round to the front, covering the hip and going down into the groin area. And having spent the last few days utterly exhausted, very tearful and feeling totally overwhelmed, I thought - "hang on, ***?" so gathered OH up and ran for the Doc before they closed. She says it's a really bad case of shingles she thinks - at least it's a shingles-type viral infection, as it's following nerve pathways, which shingles does. The rash though doesn't really look like a typical shingles rash. Anyway, she put me on the anti-viral tabs, although it is kind of late. The rash continued to spread Thursday night and Friday morning - my bum and right around almost as far as the opposite hip (having started at the right hip), accross my tummy to the navel, down the right leg to the knee, a few spots around the back of the left knee, and my right inner arm, from wrist to elbow, plus some spots on my fingers! The itching is like nothing I have ever felt in my life - and frankly, I am sick as a pig, and as cranky, crabby and narky as anyone you would ever hope not to meet! I hadn't been eating great before the rash came out, and have been so sick since, I've managed one digestive biscuit - and it took 2 hours to eat that!
Sorry for dumping on you all - but there's no-one else here except William, who is trying to be as good as he can, but he still needs feeding (I got to the nearest supermarket yesterday with him and bought some micro-wave meals for him so I can just heat them up, and don't have to cook). And I am trying really hard not to be cross and impatient with him.
On the good side - the splitting migraine I also had yesterday is more or less gone this morning.
It has been lingering on and on driving me nuts. And Thursday afternoon I found out why! I suddenly started feeling as if my trackpants were full of ants! Itch, scald, etc. Went to the bathroom to have a look and discovered I was out in the most horrible rash! Accross my back round to the front, covering the hip and going down into the groin area. And having spent the last few days utterly exhausted, very tearful and feeling totally overwhelmed, I thought - "hang on, ***?" so gathered OH up and ran for the Doc before they closed. She says it's a really bad case of shingles she thinks - at least it's a shingles-type viral infection, as it's following nerve pathways, which shingles does. The rash though doesn't really look like a typical shingles rash. Anyway, she put me on the anti-viral tabs, although it is kind of late. The rash continued to spread Thursday night and Friday morning - my bum and right around almost as far as the opposite hip (having started at the right hip), accross my tummy to the navel, down the right leg to the knee, a few spots around the back of the left knee, and my right inner arm, from wrist to elbow, plus some spots on my fingers! The itching is like nothing I have ever felt in my life - and frankly, I am sick as a pig, and as cranky, crabby and narky as anyone you would ever hope not to meet! I hadn't been eating great before the rash came out, and have been so sick since, I've managed one digestive biscuit - and it took 2 hours to eat that!
Sorry for dumping on you all - but there's no-one else here except William, who is trying to be as good as he can, but he still needs feeding (I got to the nearest supermarket yesterday with him and bought some micro-wave meals for him so I can just heat them up, and don't have to cook). And I am trying really hard not to be cross and impatient with him.
On the good side - the splitting migraine I also had yesterday is more or less gone this morning.