I guess I’m officially old now

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      The weather is trying its best to get me to throw my back out. Still, the four inches of sleet we got yesterday didn’t break me.

  • multicolorKnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Owww. You have my sympathy. Have had both, not at the same time. Shingles seems to come and go at random. Gout I’ve been able to control long term by eating less meat, especially seafood, more veggies.

  • Cptmurph616
    11·
    2 days ago

    Started getting gout flares a few years ago even though I eat a mostly plant-based diet and slowed my drinking down. Finally got on Allopurinol this year and it has been a miracle! Gout pain is no fucking joke.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for the tip. I get them every six months or so without much change in my diet so I might get on allopurinol in the future.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for the tip but naproxen never works for me, even if I take double the recommended dose. Tylenol and aspirin also don’t work. The only thing that works for me and both my kids is ibuprofen.

      But a road trip to Ontario sounds like a good time.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    8·
    2 days ago

    I had the mildest case of shingles a couple of months after I got my shingles vaccine finished.

    Someone else I know had a bad case of shingles, they said they wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

    If you’ve had chicken pox, definitely go get the shingles vaccine. If you’re “of a certain age,” you probably didn’t get the chicken pox vaccine when you were younger, because it wasn’t introduced in the US for widespread use until 1995. If you did get the chicken pox vaccine, and haven’t had chicken pox, you still have a risk of developing shingles later on, although that risk is greatly reduced.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      If you’ve had chicken pox, definitely go get the shingles vaccine.

      They won’t let you get it until you’re 50 yo. I’ve had multiple friends under 50 get it and be wrecked by it.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Luckily mine’s pretty mild but I had no idea what was going on so when I got a weird rash and massively swollen lymph node on one side of my face I went to the doctor.