I developed hyperthyroidism n hypertension all due to work stress which sent me to the hospital so many times I almost died because I kept vomiting up my food n couldn’t keep anything down🥲
@@eileenj7144 Did you talk to your boss about this? If you did, I hope he gave you some time off and didnt just say, “You should be supporting your work family, I’m not allowing you to have time off.”
@@maruagidyne Yeah, about that.... 😓 I don't think the vaccine was widely distributed in my country until a few years *after* I'd already been sick. Only my youngest sibling got the vaccine.
Markiplier is the world's most durable man that could take a 50. BMG to the head and come out without a scratch, and the world's sickest man at the same time.
I'm actually blind in my left eye thanks to shingles. I got chickenpox for a 3rd time when i was young and it shot up my nervous system and took out my left eye. Retina detached, muscle and nerve partial severing, scarring, the whole shabang. Have had multiple surgeries to help correct things.. but i'm still blind in it. And I'm on medication to basically prevent it, and I'll be on it my whole life. So yes! I'm VERY familiar with this virus! Fun times! Thank you guys for the childhood trauma reminder! XD
Listen, I was 36 years old and pregnant with my youngest child Jonathan when I got Shingles! I had thought that I had just whacked my head on the headboard or something. I was in considerable pain, and my doctor told me it was highly contagious! So, I had to take off at least two weeks of paid medical leave! They gave me special medicine and everything. Of course the father of my children and the bane of my existence (at this point) had turned around and made me feel guilty and bad for having this, and missing work! One of the reasons why I divorced him is cuz he was an asshole, who never treated me the way I deserved. Anyway Shingles sucks! I'm so glad Mark is better now!👍🎉
I had shingles once, thought it was an insect bite at first. Ended up giving my young daughter chicken pox which was far worse than my shingles, bless her!
I had shingles last year during my A level exams, and still have many scars down my arm from it :( good thing is it’s only contagious to people who haven’t had chicken pox (i.e. kids who are bound to get chicken pox soon enough anyway) so external contact is not usually a huge worry!!
You're not alone Mark. My parents didn't vaccinate me and my sibling and we got chicken pox. Only problem was I have a compromised immune system and had shingles at 25, and another flair up at 27. Very painful, like skin on fire painful. And yeah stress causes the flair ups. Had to switch jobs after the 2nd flair up. They last from days to weeks. Even wearing clothes hurts. I wish no one had to go through it. I'm glad you're better now and take care of yourself. ❤
I think it's important to point out that it's not caused by stress (it can but that's rare) it is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Just writing it down so people won't stress on stressing because that would not do good for you
I am kind of relieved to hear that someone else got Shingles really early in life as well. I will admit, I did not do the research, but I was stricken at 15, now 35, and have gone the last 20 years thinking that I was alone in getting a disease for "the olds" way too young.
So thankful that they created the vaccine for chickenpox just before my sister went into kindergarten. She was part of the first round of kids to be restored to get that vaccine for school, so I got it too even though I didn't have to. I really hope that it means you're immune to shingles, too.
Can't get shingles if the chickenpox virus doesn't get established in you. Amusingly, people my age who were the last people to get chicken pox before the vaccine went into wide circulation are getting shingles at a higher rate because we haven't been around any small children infected with chickenpox giving us accidental 'boosters'
If you have chickenpox or the “vaccine” you can still get shingles. Don’t pretend that you can’t. Also, just get chickenpox, it’s not that dangerous. Better to have real immunity than fake.
Glad you're ok Mark. Shingles can be no fun. I had Shingles when I was on chemo (thought it was an insect bite at first!). Didn't suffer extreme effects, just a large area above my left eye became blistered, itchy, and sore. Have a lovely scar there now. Anyway, gave my little girl chicken pox, not the best present I've ever given her.
i hate to break it to you but your mother having chickenpox while pregnant with you means that it is possible for you to get shingles. happened to my older brother
My parents grew up in the age of “chicken pox parties.” The whole neighborhood of kids would be involved….. what a weird time the 70’s and 80’s were…. How’d y’all survive between the rampant serial k¡llers, and chicken pox parties 😂😂😂
In the absence of a chickenpox vaccine, chicken pox parties are rational because the older you are when you have chickenpox the worse it is for you. And it's contagious enough that you will get it eventually in the absence of vaccination. Might as well make sure it happens the safest way possible Once the vaccine is invented, good God no
Chicken pox parties are still a thing in some places outside the US! In the UK, Ireland and France (places I've lived, so I know from experience), the chicken pox vaccine isn't commonly used or provided by health services. Instead the method of prevention is to try to give everyone chicken pox before the age of 3, coz if you get it at that age it's generally not severe at all and goes away quickly, and once you've caught it once you're almost 100% certain never to get it again. If you get it older than age 6ish, it quickly becomes very severe, so the parties are used to ensure you're immunized before then. I've never known someone to get shingles, so I'm not sure whether the pox vaccine or parties are more/less effective in preventing shingles specifically. (Edit: just looked it up and it seems the vaccine is only about 75% effective in preventing chicken pox for older kids/teenagers/adults, whilst catching it before a certain age is more effective, which may be why this is the preferred method in some countries)
I just looked it up, and the theory behind not offering the vaccine is that adults exposed to children with chickenpox reduces the chance of the adult getting shingles, which may be why I've never heard of/met someone who's had the condition before. However, there are talks (at least in the UK) of potentially offering the vaccine in future years, if currently-ongoing studies determine that the benefit of reducing the chance of shingles isn't as high as previously thought
Glad you're ok Mark, never knew it could make you blind or appear in select parts of the body that's scary. My Mom got shingles when she was young it was so unheard of when the doctors found out they delayed her treatment to show all the other doctors what it looked like in case they saw a young patient that had it again.
Yeah I totally got shingles when I was like 24. Thankfully I caught it extremely early - I noticed the rash on my back the first day it appeared, and went to the doctor immediately because I could tell what it was. Thankfully because I caught it basically as early as possible, there was zero pain, and I recovered from one round of meds.
I have been to the hospital every month for the past 9 months. You know it's bad when the receptionist doesn't ask for you name anymore and just sees your face and a surgical doctor recognises you in the hallway a month or two after seeing them. Best part is I always end up going at the start of the weekend.🤦♀
I used to be terrified because I grew up in the 80s and somehow made it thru without getting the chicken pox. Terrified because if I got it as an adult, I may die or have a hospital bill so big I couldn't finish school. But then the vaccine came out and over time, it wasn't a concern anymore, in general. Now it seems I've dodged a bullet because I cannot get shingles but do have clinical anxiety.
I think the German term for that is "Gürtelrose" which means Belt-Rose. Due to prior immune system issues, a very unhealthy and extremely stressful life style and a propably dirty syringe, my mother developed shingles after getting vaccinated. It sadly damaged her nervous system, so that she's under constant pain now and due to her already really broken body, the doctors (she goes to) can't do much about that except prescribing morphine. And for some reason she only goes to really crappy doctors and (and that's really frustrating) drifts further and further into anti vex social media bubbles and is too stubborn and foolish to listen to reason and look for a fricking doctor that knows what they're doing and does not alternative medicine bullcrap as a sidehustle!
Hey. I fully accept vaccines and my own mother has a similar issue with being completely absorbed into anti-vax attitudes and the like, which has caused quite a bit of friction between us. However, even if I'm much more likely to listen to medicine as well as try other things, it's not as if her alternative medicine hasn't yielded any benefits at times, even if it can be hard to tell what works and what is fluff. I hesitated to say this, because you might not take it well, but my mother does take something called palmitoyl-ethanolamide (PEA), which has helped some against nerve pain, and she sings its praised. If your mother isn't going to accept going to doctors anyway, perhaps it may be worthwhile to inform her about PEA and see if it helps. Chances are she's already nuts about supplements anyway. Granted, I can't promise anything and it would obviously be best for her to try finding better doctors. I hope it goes better for you two.
Thank you for talking about this Mark as I am at high risk of not only getting chicken pox the 2nd time around (rare but can happen when immunosuppressed as I am) but also getting shingles. But I would not have known the first symptoms of it. So I appreciate you describing it so well. Reminds me of how I had pain suddenly behind my ear before bed and woke up with half my face paralyzed and was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. By the way, I am only about a decade older than you, so still below 50. Anyway, I appreciate how you are always so open and honest and what makes me keep coming back to your videos over the years. Thank you for being you.
If I had a nickel for every time a comedic CZcamsr had stress induced shingles and made content out of it, I'd have two nickels...which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice. (i.e. Brian David Gilbert "Shingles Jingle")
I feel at this point, Mark is to the hospital as Norm Peterson is to Cheers. Imagining Mark being pushed into the hospital on a stretcher. Mark:"Afternoon everybody" Hospital Staff: "Mark!"
My bf had shingles last year & it scabbed really badly that it looks like he still has shingles now. I helped his mom nurse him back to health for a weekend. I’ve had chicken pox before so I remember just how itchy you get. His shingles was from his hairline at the base of his neck to his spine & also spread to his whole left shoulder. I was very scared for him. Did warm compression towels and cold compressions based on what he needed. I’ve also had to ask him to try not to stress about anything, bc I don’t want him to go through a resurgence of the shingles. My poor lovey was in excruciating pain, and he waited for me to be available to go with him to urgent care & see a doctor since he was feeling very anxious.
There was a period before I was diagnosed with my two chronic conditions where I was on a first name basis with some of the nurses at the community hospital. It was the same issue (severe nausea and gut pain) 9/10 times too. I worry a lot about shingles, since I had a friend get it repeatedly in her early 20's and I'm already immunocompromised to the point I still wear my masks in public and its not even because of COVID now, but because of every other illness I've avoided in the last three years.
Hey, Mark, Bob, and Wade. I highly doubt you will ever see this, but thanks to you guys, i beat my best mile time by 1:40, My current personal best is now ditting at 14:40, and i kust wanted to thank you for getting me through the most difficult part of my life by far! Listening to you podcast while doing homework, working out. And just doing day to day things has helped me so much with my depression and anxiety. Thank you guys for one hell of ride, can't wait to listen to more down the road!
Yeah, I got shingles in undergrad too. Happened my last semester in college and it itched and burned SO much. Wearing a seatbelt was agony. Just my shirt brushing against it would send these little electric shocks through my body. It was bizarre. I had no idea it was shingles because I was always told it was an, "old person disease." One very neat side effect though is that whenever I get too stressed, I get this sort of weird feeling in my chest. It's like my body's warning signal of, "you're getting too stressed. You're gonna get shingles again if this keeps up." It lets me know I need to take a deep breath and just focus on different things. It's helped me manage my stress better. People I've talked to who've had shingles tell me they get the same feeling when they get overly stressed.
Ive had shingles last year actually. What a miserable existence, your skin.... the burning, everything felt like sandpaper scratching you(including clothes), couldnt sleep a full night for 2 weeks.
Ooof! Sorry to hear that you went through that Mark. I am happy though that you were able to get through it okay! :O I've never had chicken pox at all. I did have a case of the measles a loooooong, long time ago though.
I have a friend that has chronic shingles. Comes back every couple months for a few weeks at a time. Insurance won't cover the vaccine for it, because "the vaccine only lasts 10 years and is meant for older people that are more at risk". Friend is in their 20s and can't work for weeks at a time due to the pain, and they won't provide relief to get a capable worker back in action. Its infuriating.
Remember when Anthony Padilla interviewed Mark and asked him if his constant work load will kill him someday *not exact words*, and Mark responded “I think it will kill me”. I’m now starting to believe it… BUT MARKS STILL HERE SO THATS JUST MUMBO JUMBO… hmm… YEAH RIGHT…. ….
My dad had shingles twice. The first time, he was in such great pain, they gave him morphine to take the edge off. He couldn't work for 6 weeks, it was awful. I remember him asking if I could go with him to the doctor's since mum had something she had to do, since he was worried he'd collapse in pain. That was an experience
Damn. I did get about 3 weeks ago, also in the middle of the night, pain in my left arm. It felt like barbed wire was going through the center of my elbow. Thought I was having a heart attack. Luckily I discovered that if I stretch and try to touch my toes, my upper spine would pop and the pain went away instantly. Why is life such a poopy face?
I got shingles two years ago… I was 23. I too felt weird about having issues with something that typically effects older people. Especially since you can’t get the vaccine until you’re 40 or 50 😂
my dad got shingles, it’s been decades since he got chickenpox, it’s crazy. he had boils on his face and head, on his shoulder, his arm. they were extremely painful for him and he felt very very sick for a few weeks.
This makes me question what I went through. I just dropped one day I woke up, from my hips to under my boobs was on fire inside and out. Couldn't lay my arms across my stomach, couldn't wear a shirt because even that was too heavy, had to wear a bar the whole time because my own boobs made my ribcage feel like it was splintering off slowly. No one offered a emergency visit, my brothers girlfriend still tried to get me to sweep and clean and do everything in the house and the one time I asked for a phone charger because my phone was dying while I told my friend about this, they acted like I was a living inconvenience. Anyway, I still can't lay my arms over my stomach without remembering and getting a quick wave of the exact same discomfort from that day.
Microbiologist here! When you catch chickenpox, the virus can get into your nervous system and go dormant (also called establishing latency). Your nerves are what’s called an “immune privileged site,” meaning your immune system doesn’t normally go into them. Because of that, the virus can just hang out in your body for years. If you’re healthy and your immune system is working normally, it can smash any flare ups before you notice them, but in times of extreme stress and/or illness, the virus can flare up while your immune system is distracted and cause shingles! The fact that the virus lives in your nerves is what causes the one-sided nerve pain/rash. Luckily, thanks to chickenpox vaccines, most kids are not being infected with chickenpox, so they don’t have the virus in their bodies, so they won’t get a random shingles outbreak. There’s also shingles vaccines out there that help your immune system strike down any future flare ups, and flares can be treated with antiviral medicine! Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to share some of the info constantly rattling in my brain. Glad Mark is feeling better, and yay for modern medicine!
I'm late to this and honestly had been wondering why Mark had been hospitalized during this time. Glad they caught the shingles early before it did any real damage. I still find it wild that there is a large portion of us who are basically just ticking shingle time bombs (myself included) because we contracted chickenpox. It's actually quite scary.
They had horrifying commercials when I was younger that were like “IF YOU HAD CHICKEN POX, THE SHINGLES VIRUS IS ALREADY INSIDE YOU” and here I am like 9 years old, the only person in my family who had actually gotten chicken pox: 😨
I got shingles for the first time this year back in like march. Honestly, by grace of God judging from all these comments and video, wasn’t so bad. It was itchy and irritating- but it wasn’t bad. Smeared some stuff mom gave it on me every day and it dried out in like a week. I have scars where it was now- but I’m otherwise unaffected as far as I’m aware. So sorry for all my sibs out there that got it bad. And if ya got it- I hope it heals fast!
I am so sorry this happened to you. I got Shingles in my early 20s, and it was the scariest most painful thing I've ever been through. I also thought it was an old people thing, and finding out what it is and how it happens is wild. We're the same age, so the chicken pox vaccine came out like a year or two after I had chicken pox too. I live in fear I'm going to get it again, and I can't get the shingles vaccine cause it's like $200 and only for people over 50
I had shingles this year at 29. I didn't think you could get shingles at that age, but when I went to the doctor, yeah you can get shingles under 50. It also affected the left side of my eye and face. Luckily, it didn't get to my eye, but the area around my eyebrow and was like creeping downward. And that section started swelling at a fast rate that my friend told me I should see a doctor now because it was looking really concerning. And yeah, the doctor confirmed it was shingles and also luckily because I caught it and got treatment for it early, I didn't have to worry about it affecting my eye. But yeah shingles is awful.
I had my first run in with shingles a couple years ago. Mine started with a burning sensation on my back by my hip. Then I got a bump and thought it was a spider bite then like overnight I had a huge cluster of blisters. It took a couple weeks with meds to go away but I still get burning sensations every once in a while.
Shingles is awful! Nerve pain is honestly the worst pain. Stress can absolutely flare up dormant illnesses and autoimmune diseases. There is a shingles vaccine, which they used to only recommend if you were over 55 and have had chicken pox, but I think due to increased stress and immune system sensitivity more people are getting shingles at much younger ages. I have a friend who had it in her mid 20s. Pain down the arm and blisters on her shoulder. Iirc the virus actually lies along the nerves and that's why it's so painful. The truly horrible part is that if you don't get antiviral meds you can end up with permanent nerve damage or pain. Just think about feeling like an area of your body is just constantly on fire. My mom was a nurse, so yeah when I was 4 we, all the kids on the street, all went to play with my bff next door to "get it out of the way," early when it's less serious. It was also the middle of summer, so no need to miss school. There wasn't a vaccine for it yet, and if you catch chicken pox as an adult when your immune system is weaker you can have much more serious complications than a bunch of itchy red blisters for a week. I have an extra sensitive nervous system, so chicken pox was brutal for me, especially since my mom wouldn't splurge on the calamine lotion. My sister and I slept with socks on our hands to make night scratching less damaging, and gently scratched each other when Mom wasn't paying attention. 😅
I relate to the death-by-stress bit. I have thyroid-related autoimmune, and I will literally be fine, perfectly healthy, until I have a period of extended stress and then random body systems start going haywire. And it's impossible to just *never* be stressed, I'm on a ton of medications to that exact purpose.
My shingles started out as a rash and when I didn't take it seriously enough, it quickly attacked the nerves on the left side of my body. Caught it early enough that it didn't affect my vision, but it hurt like a b***h. >< Later got the shingles vaccine, which just lessens the pain for future resurgences. Shingles sucks, man.
Dude I've had shingles! It freaking sucks! I was like 13 when I caught it. My mom thought it was an allergic reaction across my, back chest and shoulders, and had given me benadryll for a few days as it got worse. The dr finally looked at me and was like, "You're a cute little old lady arent you?". Made me so made
I had this in the 4th grade. I went to school one day and just felt like there was something on my back. So humoring me the nurse looked, and called my mom cause there was now this weird lump on my back.
I haven't stressed myself sick with shingles thankfully... but I did stress myself sick with chickenpox somehow at 22 🙃 (my family was vaccinated, but they got a second dose once that happened)
We didng do the family gathering of catching the chicken pox, we just ended up giving it to each other. My dad had to care for his wife, 3 toddlers, and his sister in law who all got it at the same time
Welcome to the “Young Shingles “ club, Mark!! I actually developed shingles in 6th grade due to the stress from my classmates teasing me and friend about us having a crush on each other!
@@artemisolympius2708 hell no lol it was the early 2000s, the hey day of “kids will be kids 🤷♀️” my parents didn’t even believe me when I talked about the pain until my dad saw the very distinctive shingles scabs…which only form when it’s past the window for medication
shingles is more commonly known as naagin in India which quite literally translates to serpent because of the way the rash spreads. It is deadly f not taken care of properly, glad Mark got thru it. my mom had it a few months back as well.
I had shingles when I was 7 but I never had chicken pox and the doctors could not figure out how I got it. That was probably one of the worst pains I have even had
I had it a few years ago on my back (and a tiny amount on my face) and it was NOT fun. My mom and I thought it was excema for like two or three days and my sister was at our house for her lunch break, she looked at my back for a moment and figured out what it was.
man.. I was so salty when I got chickenpox as a k id. My brother got it from a chickenpox party in december and it basically worked out that he got an extra week or whatever off from school while I was pox'ed over christmas and was fine by the time classes were back in session. SO grumpy.
This reminds me of when I had chickenpox when I was about 8. I was like "Yay, I'm sick and contagious so I get to stay home!" And my dad was like "Nope, you're coming with me." And it was my first time going to work with him and doing construction. I was so pissed that I didn't get to stay home LMAO.
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Mark needs one of those cards like at Ice Cream places where if you buy 10 you get a free Ice Cream, but it's for the hospital visits instead
He would get that card
we kinda have that in sweden
So a point by card. Hmm I had one for a gas station.
@@995coolI have one of does :D.
Well he can make a video about it and that’s pretty much as close as it could be there with the medic services lol
If Mark goes to the hospital one more time, he fills his punch card and the stay is free
and forever.
@@deangraves7462Welcome to the Hospital California..
I like to think that every doctor at the hospital knows who Mark is at this point and they’re just used to this song and dance. I’m glad he’s okay tho
I'm like that too - I think we should get 'frequent visit' miles or something. All the nurses know me by name. XD
"Oh hi Mark!"
It’s amazing how quickly and harshly stress can *literally* kill you
I developed hyperthyroidism n hypertension all due to work stress which sent me to the hospital so many times I almost died because I kept vomiting up my food n couldn’t keep anything down🥲
@@eileenj7144 Did you talk to your boss about this? If you did, I hope he gave you some time off and didnt just say, “You should be supporting your work family, I’m not allowing you to have time off.”
@@Dusted-Luck yea I did but gave up and quit. I could find a job anywhere. It’s not worth losing my health over
@@eileenj7144 ay that’s great man. Hope you found a happy and stable job.
They're going to be changing the default patient name from "John Doe" to "Mark Fischbach" if he keeps this up
He REALLY should start considering making a new choose your own adventure: A Hospital Visit with Markiplier
Man, finding out that you were close to going blind is actually terrifying.
I am basically blind, and I can relate.
yeah shingles in your eye is just terrible; and shingles can come back too, this isnt a one and done thing
@@briannajones5184 Good god that’s awful
Mark: I'm out of the hospital!
*few days later*
Mark: I'm back in the hospital!
Mark goes to the hospital every 2nd week
Its gotten to the point of "marks in the hospital"
"Oh ok"
yep
"It's prevalence among people below 50 is actually going UP."
Great. New fear unlocked early.
It’s only if you’ve ever had chicken pox, otherwise no need to worry!
@@maruagidyne Yeah, about that.... 😓
I don't think the vaccine was widely distributed in my country until a few years *after* I'd already been sick. Only my youngest sibling got the vaccine.
I love how everyone is normalized at how often Mark goes to the hospital to the point where any titles need to have “AGAIN” 😭
Markiplier is the world's most durable man that could take a 50. BMG to the head and come out without a scratch, and the world's sickest man at the same time.
I'm actually blind in my left eye thanks to shingles. I got chickenpox for a 3rd time when i was young and it shot up my nervous system and took out my left eye. Retina detached, muscle and nerve partial severing, scarring, the whole shabang. Have had multiple surgeries to help correct things.. but i'm still blind in it. And I'm on medication to basically prevent it, and I'll be on it my whole life.
So yes! I'm VERY familiar with this virus! Fun times!
Thank you guys for the childhood trauma reminder! XD
Dang, I'm sorry that happened to you! I have had chicken pox twice and nobody believes me.
Oh my god, that is terrible I never knew it could be that bad sorry that happened to you
@@shyofthemoon1175 its rare but it happens.
@@patriciaferrell532 yeah.. it can be bad. it happened when I was little.. so I dont remember a whole lot. was a long time ago.
Dang, dude/dudette, God bless ❤
The way Mark always smiles through his health struggles. Just wanna give him cookies and a blanket and..hugs.
Listen, I was 36 years old and pregnant with my youngest child Jonathan when I got Shingles! I had thought that I had just whacked my head on the headboard or something. I was in considerable pain, and my doctor told me it was highly contagious! So, I had to take off at least two weeks of paid medical leave! They gave me special medicine and everything. Of course the father of my children and the bane of my existence (at this point) had turned around and made me feel guilty and bad for having this, and missing work! One of the reasons why I divorced him is cuz he was an asshole, who never treated me the way I deserved. Anyway Shingles sucks! I'm so glad Mark is better now!👍🎉
I had shingles once, thought it was an insect bite at first. Ended up giving my young daughter chicken pox which was far worse than my shingles, bless her!
I had shingles a few months ago it was not pleasant at all
I had shingles last year during my A level exams, and still have many scars down my arm from it :(
good thing is it’s only contagious to people who haven’t had chicken pox (i.e. kids who are bound to get chicken pox soon enough anyway) so external contact is not usually a huge worry!!
Glad you're doing fine, and good riddance to your ex 😁
You're not alone Mark. My parents didn't vaccinate me and my sibling and we got chicken pox. Only problem was I have a compromised immune system and had shingles at 25, and another flair up at 27. Very painful, like skin on fire painful.
And yeah stress causes the flair ups. Had to switch jobs after the 2nd flair up. They last from days to weeks. Even wearing clothes hurts. I wish no one had to go through it. I'm glad you're better now and take care of yourself. ❤
I was vaccinated and still got chicken pox(granted it was a small case)
Hmm I don’t think I got a vaccine for that (I didn’t know there was one) and my family has never caught it, and I don’t think my parents did either
I think it's important to point out that it's not caused by stress (it can but that's rare) it is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Just writing it down so people won't stress on stressing because that would not do good for you
Thanks :D
yes, but if you have had said virus at any point the reactivating that causes shingles can be caused by stress
I am kind of relieved to hear that someone else got Shingles really early in life as well. I will admit, I did not do the research, but I was stricken at 15, now 35, and have gone the last 20 years thinking that I was alone in getting a disease for "the olds" way too young.
So thankful that they created the vaccine for chickenpox just before my sister went into kindergarten. She was part of the first round of kids to be restored to get that vaccine for school, so I got it too even though I didn't have to. I really hope that it means you're immune to shingles, too.
Can't get shingles if the chickenpox virus doesn't get established in you.
Amusingly, people my age who were the last people to get chicken pox before the vaccine went into wide circulation are getting shingles at a higher rate because we haven't been around any small children infected with chickenpox giving us accidental 'boosters'
If you have chickenpox or the “vaccine” you can still get shingles. Don’t pretend that you can’t. Also, just get chickenpox, it’s not that dangerous. Better to have real immunity than fake.
Glad you're ok Mark. Shingles can be no fun. I had Shingles when I was on chemo (thought it was an insect bite at first!). Didn't suffer extreme effects, just a large area above my left eye became blistered, itchy, and sore. Have a lovely scar there now. Anyway, gave my little girl chicken pox, not the best present I've ever given her.
My mom had the pox when she was pregnant with me. So I have a natural immunity to it apparently. Hopefully that goes for Shingles too
i hate to break it to you but your mother having chickenpox while pregnant with you means that it is possible for you to get shingles. happened to my older brother
@@MischiefAndTrickery well fuck
As long as you have or can get chickenpox, you can or will get shingles. It hurts but it’s not dangerous. It’s normally cause by stress.
My parents grew up in the age of “chicken pox parties.” The whole neighborhood of kids would be involved….. what a weird time the 70’s and 80’s were…. How’d y’all survive between the rampant serial k¡llers, and chicken pox parties 😂😂😂
In the absence of a chickenpox vaccine, chicken pox parties are rational because the older you are when you have chickenpox the worse it is for you. And it's contagious enough that you will get it eventually in the absence of vaccination. Might as well make sure it happens the safest way possible
Once the vaccine is invented, good God no
Chicken pox parties are still a thing in some places outside the US! In the UK, Ireland and France (places I've lived, so I know from experience), the chicken pox vaccine isn't commonly used or provided by health services. Instead the method of prevention is to try to give everyone chicken pox before the age of 3, coz if you get it at that age it's generally not severe at all and goes away quickly, and once you've caught it once you're almost 100% certain never to get it again. If you get it older than age 6ish, it quickly becomes very severe, so the parties are used to ensure you're immunized before then.
I've never known someone to get shingles, so I'm not sure whether the pox vaccine or parties are more/less effective in preventing shingles specifically.
(Edit: just looked it up and it seems the vaccine is only about 75% effective in preventing chicken pox for older kids/teenagers/adults, whilst catching it before a certain age is more effective, which may be why this is the preferred method in some countries)
I just looked it up, and the theory behind not offering the vaccine is that adults exposed to children with chickenpox reduces the chance of the adult getting shingles, which may be why I've never heard of/met someone who's had the condition before. However, there are talks (at least in the UK) of potentially offering the vaccine in future years, if currently-ongoing studies determine that the benefit of reducing the chance of shingles isn't as high as previously thought
Sadden to hear about Mark's grandmother. Always nice to hear the boys back together and at it again
Glad you're ok Mark, never knew it could make you blind or appear in select parts of the body that's scary.
My Mom got shingles when she was young it was so unheard of when the doctors found out they delayed her treatment to show all the other doctors what it looked like in case they saw a young patient that had it again.
Yeah I totally got shingles when I was like 24. Thankfully I caught it extremely early - I noticed the rash on my back the first day it appeared, and went to the doctor immediately because I could tell what it was.
Thankfully because I caught it basically as early as possible, there was zero pain, and I recovered from one round of meds.
Its definitely not just old people I got it when I was 21 or 22 and it hurt like hell so I really feel for Mark, I can relate
I have been to the hospital every month for the past 9 months. You know it's bad when the receptionist doesn't ask for you name anymore and just sees your face and a surgical doctor recognises you in the hallway a month or two after seeing them. Best part is I always end up going at the start of the weekend.🤦♀
At this point the hospital probably had a wing named after Mark, lol.
I used to be terrified because I grew up in the 80s and somehow made it thru without getting the chicken pox. Terrified because if I got it as an adult, I may die or have a hospital bill so big I couldn't finish school. But then the vaccine came out and over time, it wasn't a concern anymore, in general. Now it seems I've dodged a bullet because I cannot get shingles but do have clinical anxiety.
Hate to cause you anxiety, but chicken pox vaccine doesn't protect you from shingles
More and more, as I learn about all the fun new ways stress can kill you, I'm surprised I'm still alive at this point.
I had shingles at 22 from stress, can confirm it is an awful feeling. And every time it comes back it gets worse.
I think the German term for that is "Gürtelrose" which means Belt-Rose.
Due to prior immune system issues, a very unhealthy and extremely stressful life style and a propably dirty syringe, my mother developed shingles after getting vaccinated. It sadly damaged her nervous system, so that she's under constant pain now and due to her already really broken body, the doctors (she goes to) can't do much about that except prescribing morphine. And for some reason she only goes to really crappy doctors and (and that's really frustrating) drifts further and further into anti vex social media bubbles and is too stubborn and foolish to listen to reason and look for a fricking doctor that knows what they're doing and does not alternative medicine bullcrap as a sidehustle!
Hey. I fully accept vaccines and my own mother has a similar issue with being completely absorbed into anti-vax attitudes and the like, which has caused quite a bit of friction between us.
However, even if I'm much more likely to listen to medicine as well as try other things, it's not as if her alternative medicine hasn't yielded any benefits at times, even if it can be hard to tell what works and what is fluff. I hesitated to say this, because you might not take it well, but my mother does take something called palmitoyl-ethanolamide (PEA), which has helped some against nerve pain, and she sings its praised.
If your mother isn't going to accept going to doctors anyway, perhaps it may be worthwhile to inform her about PEA and see if it helps. Chances are she's already nuts about supplements anyway. Granted, I can't promise anything and it would obviously be best for her to try finding better doctors. I hope it goes better for you two.
Thank you for talking about this Mark as I am at high risk of not only getting chicken pox the 2nd time around (rare but can happen when immunosuppressed as I am) but also getting shingles. But I would not have known the first symptoms of it. So I appreciate you describing it so well. Reminds me of how I had pain suddenly behind my ear before bed and woke up with half my face paralyzed and was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. By the way, I am only about a decade older than you, so still below 50. Anyway, I appreciate how you are always so open and honest and what makes me keep coming back to your videos over the years. Thank you for being you.
If I had a nickel for every time a comedic CZcamsr had stress induced shingles and made content out of it, I'd have two nickels...which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
(i.e. Brian David Gilbert "Shingles Jingle")
Mark needs the Guinness World Record for CZcamsr most to go to the Hospital. 😂
We love you Mark, glad you're better! ❤
I’m soooooooo glad your ok mark 🎉
I feel at this point, Mark is to the hospital as Norm Peterson is to Cheers. Imagining Mark being pushed into the hospital on a stretcher.
Mark:"Afternoon everybody"
Hospital Staff: "Mark!"
My bf had shingles last year & it scabbed really badly that it looks like he still has shingles now. I helped his mom nurse him back to health for a weekend. I’ve had chicken pox before so I remember just how itchy you get. His shingles was from his hairline at the base of his neck to his spine & also spread to his whole left shoulder. I was very scared for him. Did warm compression towels and cold compressions based on what he needed. I’ve also had to ask him to try not to stress about anything, bc I don’t want him to go through a resurgence of the shingles. My poor lovey was in excruciating pain, and he waited for me to be available to go with him to urgent care & see a doctor since he was feeling very anxious.
This is when he had Shingles yes?
There was a period before I was diagnosed with my two chronic conditions where I was on a first name basis with some of the nurses at the community hospital. It was the same issue (severe nausea and gut pain) 9/10 times too. I worry a lot about shingles, since I had a friend get it repeatedly in her early 20's and I'm already immunocompromised to the point I still wear my masks in public and its not even because of COVID now, but because of every other illness I've avoided in the last three years.
Fun fact migraines and cold sores can also be triggered by stress
Not surprised man.
Bro, I just saw the Lixian plush in bobs backround. Absolute mad lad.
Hey, Mark, Bob, and Wade. I highly doubt you will ever see this, but thanks to you guys, i beat my best mile time by 1:40, My current personal best is now ditting at 14:40, and i kust wanted to thank you for getting me through the most difficult part of my life by far! Listening to you podcast while doing homework, working out. And just doing day to day things has helped me so much with my depression and anxiety.
Thank you guys for one hell of ride, can't wait to listen to more down the road!
I was 29 when I had shingles and it was by far the most pain I’ve ever experienced in my life
Ty for giving the symptoms as well guys. That way everyone has a chance to notice them.❤
Yeah, I got shingles in undergrad too. Happened my last semester in college and it itched and burned SO much. Wearing a seatbelt was agony. Just my shirt brushing against it would send these little electric shocks through my body. It was bizarre. I had no idea it was shingles because I was always told it was an, "old person disease."
One very neat side effect though is that whenever I get too stressed, I get this sort of weird feeling in my chest. It's like my body's warning signal of, "you're getting too stressed. You're gonna get shingles again if this keeps up." It lets me know I need to take a deep breath and just focus on different things. It's helped me manage my stress better. People I've talked to who've had shingles tell me they get the same feeling when they get overly stressed.
Ive had shingles last year actually. What a miserable existence, your skin.... the burning, everything felt like sandpaper scratching you(including clothes), couldnt sleep a full night for 2 weeks.
Ooof! Sorry to hear that you went through that Mark. I am happy though that you were able to get through it okay! :O I've never had chicken pox at all. I did have a case of the measles a loooooong, long time ago though.
I have a friend that has chronic shingles. Comes back every couple months for a few weeks at a time. Insurance won't cover the vaccine for it, because "the vaccine only lasts 10 years and is meant for older people that are more at risk". Friend is in their 20s and can't work for weeks at a time due to the pain, and they won't provide relief to get a capable worker back in action. Its infuriating.
I had shingles at 23 and have nerve damage in my back now they're hyper sensitive it sucks. Glad Mark is doing better!
Remember when Anthony Padilla interviewed Mark and asked him if his constant work load will kill him someday *not exact words*, and Mark responded “I think it will kill me”. I’m now starting to believe it… BUT MARKS STILL HERE SO THATS JUST MUMBO JUMBO… hmm… YEAH RIGHT…. ….
I don’t know if it will kill him, but if this guy gets sick again, before the end of the year, maybe he needs to check him whole immune system.
I have it too. the last time the rash was in my armpit. It's very painful.
2:04 that brigs so much memories ❤
My dad had shingles twice. The first time, he was in such great pain, they gave him morphine to take the edge off. He couldn't work for 6 weeks, it was awful. I remember him asking if I could go with him to the doctor's since mum had something she had to do, since he was worried he'd collapse in pain. That was an experience
Marks Hospital visits summed up-
“I can finally leave! Martha I’m coming home-IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN!!”
I got shingles in a crucifix pattern on my back and shoulders. I'm an atheist
The most underrated channel ever! Gold content!
Damn. I did get about 3 weeks ago, also in the middle of the night, pain in my left arm. It felt like barbed wire was going through the center of my elbow. Thought I was having a heart attack. Luckily I discovered that if I stretch and try to touch my toes, my upper spine would pop and the pain went away instantly.
Why is life such a poopy face?
I got shingles two years ago… I was 23.
I too felt weird about having issues with something that typically effects older people. Especially since you can’t get the vaccine until you’re 40 or 50 😂
"That's something only old people get"
Me who got shingles when I was 7: I think not
Well guess who just had a new fear unlocked by this 🤣
my dad got shingles, it’s been decades since he got chickenpox, it’s crazy. he had boils on his face and head, on his shoulder, his arm. they were extremely painful for him and he felt very very sick for a few weeks.
Dude I got shingles when I was super young, still got scars on my left waist that occasionally itch whenever I'm too hot.
Same! I thought it was weird nobody ever talks about that!
This makes me question what I went through. I just dropped one day I woke up, from my hips to under my boobs was on fire inside and out. Couldn't lay my arms across my stomach, couldn't wear a shirt because even that was too heavy, had to wear a bar the whole time because my own boobs made my ribcage feel like it was splintering off slowly. No one offered a emergency visit, my brothers girlfriend still tried to get me to sweep and clean and do everything in the house and the one time I asked for a phone charger because my phone was dying while I told my friend about this, they acted like I was a living inconvenience. Anyway, I still can't lay my arms over my stomach without remembering and getting a quick wave of the exact same discomfort from that day.
Microbiologist here! When you catch chickenpox, the virus can get into your nervous system and go dormant (also called establishing latency). Your nerves are what’s called an “immune privileged site,” meaning your immune system doesn’t normally go into them. Because of that, the virus can just hang out in your body for years. If you’re healthy and your immune system is working normally, it can smash any flare ups before you notice them, but in times of extreme stress and/or illness, the virus can flare up while your immune system is distracted and cause shingles! The fact that the virus lives in your nerves is what causes the one-sided nerve pain/rash. Luckily, thanks to chickenpox vaccines, most kids are not being infected with chickenpox, so they don’t have the virus in their bodies, so they won’t get a random shingles outbreak. There’s also shingles vaccines out there that help your immune system strike down any future flare ups, and flares can be treated with antiviral medicine! Sorry for the long comment, just wanted to share some of the info constantly rattling in my brain. Glad Mark is feeling better, and yay for modern medicine!
I'm late to this and honestly had been wondering why Mark had been hospitalized during this time. Glad they caught the shingles early before it did any real damage. I still find it wild that there is a large portion of us who are basically just ticking shingle time bombs (myself included) because we contracted chickenpox. It's actually quite scary.
They had horrifying commercials when I was younger that were like “IF YOU HAD CHICKEN POX, THE SHINGLES VIRUS IS ALREADY INSIDE YOU” and here I am like 9 years old, the only person in my family who had actually gotten chicken pox: 😨
I got shingles for the first time this year back in like march.
Honestly, by grace of God judging from all these comments and video, wasn’t so bad. It was itchy and irritating- but it wasn’t bad. Smeared some stuff mom gave it on me every day and it dried out in like a week.
I have scars where it was now- but I’m otherwise unaffected as far as I’m aware.
So sorry for all my sibs out there that got it bad. And if ya got it- I hope it heals fast!
I am so sorry this happened to you. I got Shingles in my early 20s, and it was the scariest most painful thing I've ever been through. I also thought it was an old people thing, and finding out what it is and how it happens is wild. We're the same age, so the chicken pox vaccine came out like a year or two after I had chicken pox too. I live in fear I'm going to get it again, and I can't get the shingles vaccine cause it's like $200 and only for people over 50
I had shingles this year at 29. I didn't think you could get shingles at that age, but when I went to the doctor, yeah you can get shingles under 50. It also affected the left side of my eye and face. Luckily, it didn't get to my eye, but the area around my eyebrow and was like creeping downward. And that section started swelling at a fast rate that my friend told me I should see a doctor now because it was looking really concerning. And yeah, the doctor confirmed it was shingles and also luckily because I caught it and got treatment for it early, I didn't have to worry about it affecting my eye. But yeah shingles is awful.
Mark really needs to find out if theres some frequent shopper card for the hospital.
That part with bobs frozen cam has me dying almost for the rest of the video 😭
Is this why Mark is a masochist. Also Mark seems to be an accident magnet.
I had my first run in with shingles a couple years ago. Mine started with a burning sensation on my back by my hip. Then I got a bump and thought it was a spider bite then like overnight I had a huge cluster of blisters. It took a couple weeks with meds to go away but I still get burning sensations every once in a while.
Shingles is awful! Nerve pain is honestly the worst pain. Stress can absolutely flare up dormant illnesses and autoimmune diseases. There is a shingles vaccine, which they used to only recommend if you were over 55 and have had chicken pox, but I think due to increased stress and immune system sensitivity more people are getting shingles at much younger ages. I have a friend who had it in her mid 20s. Pain down the arm and blisters on her shoulder. Iirc the virus actually lies along the nerves and that's why it's so painful. The truly horrible part is that if you don't get antiviral meds you can end up with permanent nerve damage or pain. Just think about feeling like an area of your body is just constantly on fire.
My mom was a nurse, so yeah when I was 4 we, all the kids on the street, all went to play with my bff next door to "get it out of the way," early when it's less serious. It was also the middle of summer, so no need to miss school. There wasn't a vaccine for it yet, and if you catch chicken pox as an adult when your immune system is weaker you can have much more serious complications than a bunch of itchy red blisters for a week. I have an extra sensitive nervous system, so chicken pox was brutal for me, especially since my mom wouldn't splurge on the calamine lotion. My sister and I slept with socks on our hands to make night scratching less damaging, and gently scratched each other when Mom wasn't paying attention. 😅
Mark is so dedicated to working out that he often gets sick to train his immune system
I relate to the death-by-stress bit. I have thyroid-related autoimmune, and I will literally be fine, perfectly healthy, until I have a period of extended stress and then random body systems start going haywire. And it's impossible to just *never* be stressed, I'm on a ton of medications to that exact purpose.
My shingles started out as a rash and when I didn't take it seriously enough, it quickly attacked the nerves on the left side of my body. Caught it early enough that it didn't affect my vision, but it hurt like a b***h. >< Later got the shingles vaccine, which just lessens the pain for future resurgences. Shingles sucks, man.
New drinking game: Take a shot every time Mark goes to the hospital
Dude I've had shingles! It freaking sucks! I was like 13 when I caught it. My mom thought it was an allergic reaction across my, back chest and shoulders, and had given me benadryll for a few days as it got worse. The dr finally looked at me and was like, "You're a cute little old lady arent you?". Made me so made
I had this in the 4th grade. I went to school one day and just felt like there was something on my back. So humoring me the nurse looked, and called my mom cause there was now this weird lump on my back.
I haven't stressed myself sick with shingles thankfully... but I did stress myself sick with chickenpox somehow at 22 🙃
(my family was vaccinated, but they got a second dose once that happened)
We didng do the family gathering of catching the chicken pox, we just ended up giving it to each other. My dad had to care for his wife, 3 toddlers, and his sister in law who all got it at the same time
Poor markiplier
Take a shot every time Mark goes to the Hospi- No... on second thought... DONT.
Haha good luck not getting too stressed again my man! 😅
I'm glad you're feeling better Mark, much love and respect to all you guys stay safe.
Welcome to the “Young Shingles “ club, Mark!! I actually developed shingles in 6th grade due to the stress from my classmates teasing me and friend about us having a crush on each other!
Damn! And I was that age when I got chickenpox. I feel so bad for you there! Was anything done about the stress at school, say after having shingles?
@@artemisolympius2708 hell no lol it was the early 2000s, the hey day of “kids will be kids 🤷♀️” my parents didn’t even believe me when I talked about the pain until my dad saw the very distinctive shingles scabs…which only form when it’s past the window for medication
Only they can make something super serious super funny. So glad Mark’s ok and got to it in time.
It's nice to know that other people make the Raven sound like a parrot too whenever they say the word nevermore 😂
shingles is more commonly known as naagin in India which quite literally translates to serpent because of the way the rash spreads.
It is deadly f not taken care of properly, glad Mark got thru it. my mom had it a few months back as well.
I had shingles when I was 7 but I never had chicken pox and the doctors could not figure out how I got it. That was probably one of the worst pains I have even had
I had it a few years ago on my back (and a tiny amount on my face) and it was NOT fun. My mom and I thought it was excema for like two or three days and my sister was at our house for her lunch break, she looked at my back for a moment and figured out what it was.
As a fellow shingles haver, I understand. Thankfully, mine was very mild.
"I turned around"
man.. I was so salty when I got chickenpox as a k id. My brother got it from a chickenpox party in december and it basically worked out that he got an extra week or whatever off from school while I was pox'ed over christmas and was fine by the time classes were back in session. SO grumpy.
I got shingles when I was 5 or 6 (Chx Pox ~ 3 y.o) . I STILL remember the pain 30 years later. I feel for Mark.
This reminds me of when I had chickenpox when I was about 8.
I was like "Yay, I'm sick and contagious so I get to stay home!"
And my dad was like "Nope, you're coming with me." And it was my first time going to work with him and doing construction.
I was so pissed that I didn't get to stay home LMAO.