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[quote=Anonymous]Nurse Practitioner here. Chicken pox in a 40 year old is an absolute zebra. Would not be expected. I have been a nurse since 1989 and have never seen chicken pox- either as a bedside nurse or as an NP. As for shingles- when I worked in Internal Medicine, I diagnosed shingles 5-10ish times. In that job, when either my MD boss or I thought someone might have shingles, we would ask the other person to look at it. Shingles, especially at the outset can be tricky. In my current job, in a specialty, I have been asked by MDs to look at 2 patients, a fellow NP once and diagnosed one case. The good news? The treatment (valacyclovir) is pretty benign even if it is not shingles, so treatment starts quickly. I know these episodes were frustrating and likely painful, but skin conditions are challenging and with chickenpox, so very rare now and shingles, again, at least at the outset, tricky.[/quote]
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