[Slette]

I'm sorry you're going through this. I had chicken pox when I was five and three years ago, at the age of 43 I got hit with them while I was in Vegas. It started with a blister by my right eye and soon spread across the entire right side of my face. It's such a strange pain, because doing nothing at all would still set off shooting pain like I've never felt. I couldn't eat or drink anything without thinking I was going to pass out. My doctor did prescribe me Gabapentin, which is typically a seizure medicine. I couldn't tell if it helped or not, if I'm being honest. Apparently it can be brought on by dealing with stress, which makes sense in my case since my youngest daughter had been in the ER a couple of days earlier.

If any good came from this, my doctor said that when I'm finally age-eligible for the vaccine, he recommends I only get one dose of it, instead of the two-dose preventive plan. Here's hoping I don't have to go through that again in the future, and here's hoping your outbreak is either over, or over soon.