In rare chickenpox case, itchy blisters mushroom into large, rubbery nodules
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Oh man, that poor girl. That's miserable as hell. I'm still itching like hell at the last of some shingles but I'll sit down and shut up knowing it could have been much worse.
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Publishing this article will help this person get this managed, should she so desire.
Also: this is the sort of thing that will help people get vaccinated. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis? That's merely the brain. But the idea that these diseases can also mess up your skin -- now that is a warning to which Americans would attend.
Also: this is the sort of thing that will help people get vaccinated. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis? That's merely the brain. But the idea that these diseases can also mess up your skin -- now that is a warning to which Americans would attend.
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Publishing this article would encourage people to get vaxxed, but only if those were people who read Ars. Going by typical article comments, there's a vanishingly small probability of that.
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I had a keloid grow on my ear from a piercing. i had it removed and it grew back 3 times before the last dr finally got rid of it for good using steroids. It was the most unsightly thing and just kept getting bigger over time.
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And to think we have a head of HHS that feels vaccines are bad for you. Maybe he needs a few of those on his body, although, given the wormholes in his brain, he may just see them as a badge of honor.
(And yeah, didn't love seeing those pics in the raw...but I should have known with a Beth story).
(And yeah, didn't love seeing those pics in the raw...but I should have known with a Beth story).
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Knowing the state of disease and vaccine awareness in the US right now, I assumed the headline meant they had just decided to hang out with friends at school and infect everyone.
Can I say how much I hate that I had that interpretation.
Can I say how much I hate that I had that interpretation.
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One of my very first memories is of being incredibly miserable with chickenpox for two weeks as a toddler. You better believe my kid got vaccinated.
I can't imagine having to live with something like this indefinitely.
I can't imagine having to live with something like this indefinitely.
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Me, when a Beth Mole article is published: "Oooh, I wonder what horrors the human body has in store for us today!"
Me, after reading a Beth Mole article: "Maybe I should filter out 'Health' articles."
Me, the next time a Beth Mole article is published: "Oooh, I wonder what horrors the human body has in store for us today!"
My curiosity overrides my disgust every time!
Me, after reading a Beth Mole article: "Maybe I should filter out 'Health' articles."
Me, the next time a Beth Mole article is published: "Oooh, I wonder what horrors the human body has in store for us today!"
My curiosity overrides my disgust every time!
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The saddest thing in this article is: "Given preferences and financial limitations, she decided to forgo aggressive treatment and live with the growths".
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The inadequate "health-care" in Third-World countries is rapidly coming to the USA, state by state, election by election. Someday that comment might be common here as well.
(At least Kennedy Jr. hasn't came out against indoor plumbing and toilets..., yet...) /s
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As one who recently finished the second round, be prepared for the second round, it hits a bit. The first was a slight sore arm, the second, two days odf feeling not great then even a few more feeling draggy. I am glad I got it and yeah, if anyone is over 50, don't wait.
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I thought it already had (GOP cuts Medicaid to states, rates skyrocket as ACA premiums go up as response).
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An old ad I remember was "this is what Hepatitis would look like if it were on the outside" next to a liver affected by the infection. Though it also seems like some societies need the injured and disfigured survivors being commonplace enough to remember why we have and use the preventative measures that came after those people's infections...
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As a youth, I manged to get chicken pox, hives, and poison ivy at the same time. I thought that was the worst possible way to get chicken pox. I have updated my prior...
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Poor girl! Hopefully with this case report, perhaps money for the treatment can be raised
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Possibly meant 'discrete' instead of 'discreet' in 5th sentence of 1st paragraph of 2nd section. Though in this poor girl's case I guess you can definitely say that the "proliferative phase" was not discreet at all.
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Thanks. I’ve heard the second one is worse than the first.
Shingles is no joke. A friend of my wife’s got it in her late 30’s and is now blind in one eye. My wife made her appointment the same day she found out.
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6am. South Australia. Fresh coffee brewed. Ah, a new Beth Mole article. Hit first picture in article. Plans for mushroom breakfast immediately cancelled.
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You're talking about a man who staged a publicity stunt by swimming in a literal sewer.
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My own reaction was more immediate (~2 hours) and severe. I was a sick puppy (pain, fever, lethargy) for a couple of days after each dose of Shingrix, despite having had Zostavax years earlier. Still, it's far better than shingles.
The article revived an early 1950s childhood memory. I had mumps, measles, and chicken pox in that order, each just a couple of weeks apart. Several people told me I could not get measles again while recovering. I still remember telling my mother, "I have measles again, but this time they itch."
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When I was a kid (50s to early 60s), the circus came to town once a year. Well, one year it was here I came down with mumps. Couldn't go. The next year I had measles. Couldn't go. The following year I had chicken pox. Couldn't go that year either!!! I was not a happy camper.
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Were I to guess, it was probably the acyclovir treatment. That would interfere with the progress of the disease, and that interference alone could have triggered an anomalous side effect that otherwise wouldn't have manifested.
Keep in mind that an antiviral agent is NOT a viruscide. It doesn't kill the virus. It's a replication antagonist. Chicken pox virus never goes away. It just typically goes dormant (which is why an increased likelihood of shingles in later years is a thing).
Forcing the virus to suspend its cycle with an antiviral agent might have been what triggered it. The patient's physical condition and unique responses would have a lot to do with it as well, since it's obviously not a COMMON side effect. But if the virus's normal cycle was interrupted, given what it can do, it makes physiological sense to consider the acyclovir as a reason for these nodules to form.
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We always were just a third-world nation with a Gucci belt (to repeat the common phrase), but the billionaires are making off with the belt as we speak.
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Why oh why did someone not seal that sewer nice and tight when they had the chance?
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I saw the pictures of her keloids and thought, "Where have I seen one of those before? I know I've seen one sometime..." Well, it took a few minutes, but as I was reading the comments, I finally remembered: I had something that looked like those, but only about 2-3mm in diameter, come up after something (a haircut maybe?) nicked my earlobe 8 or 9 years ago. My NP suggested I get it removed, as it had much more visible blood vessels than the examples in the article, and suggested having it checked to make sure it wasn't cancerous.
So, I did, about three or four years ago. It came off easily (almost painlessly), didn't grow back , and wasn't cancerous. So there can be "happy" endings?
So, I did, about three or four years ago. It came off easily (almost painlessly), didn't grow back , and wasn't cancerous. So there can be "happy" endings?
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Yup.
Got one of these rubbery fuckers running from neck to navel after heart surgery four years ago.
Got one of these rubbery fuckers running from neck to navel after heart surgery four years ago.
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I suppose "suppors for new tissue" is supposed to be "support for the new tissue".
Ive seen pierced ears with these nasties before. Always wondered why someone would get their ear pieeced right next to a mole. Never occurred to me the piercing could be the cause
Ive seen pierced ears with these nasties before. Always wondered why someone would get their ear pieeced right next to a mole. Never occurred to me the piercing could be the cause
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Dr Pimple Popper has actually dealt effectively with such things.
There are several episodes on her show with a variety of such cases.
There are several episodes on her show with a variety of such cases.
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Oh, so she couldn’t afford to have these disfiguring scars treated. You really didn’t need to sugarcoat it
I wonder if anyone spending their extra money on unnecessary cosmetic surgery would be generous enough to help her instead?
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I knew a man who had this condition back in the 1980s with several nodules all over his body. At the time medical science didn't know what caused it. Now I know.
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Chicken pox is an absolutely miserable condition. I have few memories of being a toddler, but one is standing in the bathtub and crying my little brain out because I had chickenpox all over my little baby weener and my mother being in an absolute meltdown of a state because she didnt know how to make her baby stop being in pain. (when I asked mum about that, she said she took me to the doctor who gave me some medication to ease the pain) Thats a trauma memory. I am fucking mystified that some parents think vaccinating their children is a worse option than letting their babies suffer that agony.
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