No proof as yet but a dollar gets ten it is likely what happened. Diagnosed a fortnight ago, and looking back, possibly a month since first signs, Shingles has paid a visit for a second time in my advancing years
First encounter from the virus remaining from childhood Chickenpox that finds sanctuary in the spinal fluids of the lower spine to emerge for a further attack on a body with stress and/or vulnerability, came in February 2021 around a month after completing sale of the Dodger holdings in Wairarapa. Only I was as stress free in decades as was possible, while building a rather large shed for Son in Law in Hawkes Bay. Knocked off for the day and wondered aloud to Swimbo if I had fleas: one look from the one opinion always given credence in our over sixty years together, and a one word response, “Shingles”.
That was over two decades ago and although uncomfortable, all over in a couple of weeks and life returned to a normality.
This second attack is much more emphatic, a few small skin lesions but the nerve pain elevated considerably. The delay in diagnosis and treatment clearly allowed the nerve pain to establish a deeper presence and although being made tolerable with Paracetamol, reduction in levels is “Painfully” slow sic.
An ex nurse seeing me adopting a staple posture asked what the hell was in train and following my admission of Shingles, her advice was Lysine, an OC med for herpes. Off to my pharmacist and he allowed a likely relief from the Huge Lysine tablets but had another further solution, zostrix cream.
Guess what? That med seems to have been withdrawn as an OC treatment and following a visit to the Unichem that dispenses the myriad of treatments we consume, he suggested maybe the Chemist Warehouse and the Budget Chemist and it was the duty chappie at the latter who gave to evidence: Zostrix was no longer available OC. The slowly coming to the surface of awareness likely triggered by the splurge to get everyone over 25 to have Shingrix injected, currently prominent on TV could be in play here?
The forced rejection, so avidly embraced by many opposed to the “single Truth” , including Doctors, Min Health and assorted self promoted “drips under pressure”aka “experts”, of “Ivermectin” as a cheap cure for the Wuflu, denting big Pharma’s ohh so profitable introduction to the great experiment with mRNA, windfall, I am very suspicious that here again an older treatment with credible results is being taken off the options.
Too many Conspiracy Theories have morphed through a chrysalis stage to emerge as beautiful Butterfly facts for my natural inquisitive nature to abandon this one?
Prove me wrong.
No Minister 
Big Pharma is overwhelming USA based in terms of R&D investment in new treatments that can be patented… and hence protected from the great cash gouging of generic medicines produced in vast scale on the sub continent and elsewhere.
The incentive to push out the prescription or availability of older meds that are past, or nearing the end, of patent protection is massive for Big Pharma – pennies or dollars per prescription unit is at play for them, which translates to large revenue and profit numbers.
So inventing new patented verities that are closely chemically related but different enough to enable patents is one string to the profit protection scheme.
The others are pushing new treatments hard with some very clever efficacy statistic manipulation (who wouldn’t want a more effective drug) and the old classic of PR (ads, spamming MD’s, greasing the regulatory wheels- not corrupt of course!, etc etc etc)
You are right to be suspicious.
And I think the manipulation of definition of what is a vaccine, fudging of trial results and outright lies told around the COVID19 treatments pushed by Big Pharma means many others are probably equally suspicious…
of course all the above is just my personal and honestly held view based on the ongoing revelations of the efficacy or otherwise of the various COVID19 treatments
Zostrix? Rings a vague bell.
It’s been three decades for me. In my late twenties I was burning the candle at both ends. Woke one morning to find what seemed to be a cold sore so Carmex applied. But the next day there were more.
However, it was not until the day came when I could run my hand over my scalp and clearly distinguish a dividing line down the centre between left and right; sensitive skin on one, normal on the other!!!! SHIT!
It’s not a tumour!
Went to the doctor who looked utterly bored hearing my symptoms, told me I had Shingles, and to stay home from work for a week, take frequent baths, apply some sort of ointment and take some pills that sounded like “Z…. X….”?
I recall sitting in the bath reading the packet and discovering that it contained AZT, which I knew of only as the first big anti-AIDS drug. It made sense; the AZT I think was designed to grab the AIDS viruses and sweep them out of the system so why not the same with Shingles virus. However, I’ve read somewhere recently that AZT may be linked with some forms of cancer?
Ah – I’ll bet it was this. Zovirix
UPDATE: Nope. No AZT.