I have had shingles before. Painful as hell. Lasted two weeks then went away.
Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus so that means you have to have chickenpox before you can get shingles.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-a...topic-overview
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Shingles occurs when the virus that causes chickenpox starts up again in your body. After you get better from chickenpox, the virus "sleeps" (is dormant) in your nerve roots. In some people, it stays dormant forever. In others, the virus "wakes up" when disease, stress, or aging weakens the immune system. Some medicines may trigger the virus to wake up and cause a shingles rash. It is not clear why this happens. But after the virus becomes active again, it can only cause shingles, not chickenpox.
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