If you have the shingles virus, you have a serious problem.  It’s not that common, partly because parents really work hard these days to actually infect their kids when they’re young with chickenpox, and when they don’t, as adults those children stay away from their own children often for fear of catching the virus.  However, it does happen, and it’s unfortunate.  Essentially speaking, it can last for a few weeks at a time, and my brother in law suffered it, it wasn’t pretty. 

I thought before that, that it was some kind of thing that they had cured long ago or something.  But that being said, he came back with all these scars and pock marks across his body and face.  It’s basically herpes zoster, and it attacks the nervous system.  It creates painful skin rashes that sometimes make you thankful for acne to be honest, and it can also affect the joints, which will actually afflict you for the rest of your life.  It spreads pretty intensely while it’s going, and many times people develop sores in general, which is not pretty to say the least.  There are some treatments like the tea tree oil acne treatment that can be helpful.  But mostly, you just have to wait it out.