CHICAGO - If you had chickenpox as a kid then you are at risk of getting shingles, a painful rash that appears on one side of the body.

It’s often thought that only older people can get shingles, but it’s likely that you know someone in your circle that has suffered from it.

Shingles diagnosis

My journey with shingles:

I was off work this summer for about six weeks because I contracted shingles. It was the end of May, and I was at work on the weekend with Mark Strehl. I had been having weird symptoms and finally he called it, "I think you have shingles!" I disagreed, not knowing what shingles was only that you have to be "older" to get it.

I was wrong. At the age of 39, I was diagnosed with shingles, and it was on my face, surrounding my eye.

After an urgent care visit confirming t

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