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Shingles Virus in Action

I was 13-years-old when I had my first run-in with the Shingles.  Most people think of shingles as an "old-person's disease," however that's not really the case.  All the shingles virus needs to attack a body are just the right conditions (I'll review these conditions a bit later).  It's an opportunistic entity, lurking somewhere at the base of the spine of those who've had chickenpox at some point in their lives just waiting to make its debut and cause tremendous pain for its host.  Sounds eerie when put that way, but that is exactly how it happens. 

I had a case of the chickenpox when I was 6-months-old. Much later in life, at the tender age of 13, I experimented with break dancing with a couple of friends who were also into it (Hey, it was 1983!).  All that spinning on the floor on my back became the knock, knock, knock that signaled the shingles virus to open the "door," become dislodged from the base of my spine, and find a route of attack in my body. It chose to travel through my nerves and settle around my right thigh.  I was babysitting that summer for our next door neighbor.  Once we found out that I indeed had the shingles, painful rash and all, I was put on painkillers (which didn't really take away the pain), and I somehow still managed to keep my babysitting job, only by the hardest though.  The extreme pain to even the slightest touch lasted for almost 4 weeks.  I didn't understand it all then but was just glad that it was gone by the time I had to start school again in the fall.  Needless to say, this ended my break dancing "career!"  

So what are those conditions the shingles virus needs to be able to attack a person's body?  

• a person must have had the chickenpox virus at some point in his or her life
• the shingles virus is a sub/offshoot virus that comes as a result of having chickenpox and it lodges itself dormantly within the base of a person's spine
• it is released when either the spine is physically jarred enough so that the "door" is opened to its release into the body, or when a person's immunity / immune system gets so low and weak that the "door" is weakened and just falls down, allowing it entrance and activation into the body