Can you catch chicken pox twice?

[Deleted User]

Aww thanks everyone for your replies and i'm sorry to hear of your twice suffering!

The general consensus seems to be catching it twice if its mild first time.

Well i had it BADLY the first time, so therefore i hope i'm just run down. Gonna have a cuppa and a small baileys and go to bed with fingers crossed.

Thanks guys for your help.

eliviajen

This sounds silly, but my children have chicken pox now, DD started last week and DS yesterday. M Mother, Mil and I are all itching like crazy, with fevers, sickness but no spots. We have came to conclusion that your body "Remembers" what the symptoms are as it fights off the infection that we already have antibodies for, if that makes sense. I have been drinking the baby piriton and occasionally rubbing the Eurax cream on myself if ive too much on my finger and it hasnt made any difference, so it may just be a pyschological side effect of being in close contact with Chicken Pox x

ellies_angel

Me and my wee bruv had chicken pox 3 times as children and all 3 times it we were covered in spots, head to toe, inside mouth, ears etc and really poorly.
Guess we were just lucky

zombie_tennants

my ds had it twice

tcr_3

Hi OP. May I strongly recommend you go visit the doctor first thing tmorro morning. Because if it's shingles and not chickenpox, they might be able to give you something which helps prevent the dreadful and long lasting pain which shingles can cause.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the warning, if i still feel the same in the morning i'll heed your advice, i'd hate to go and waste their time otherwise.

I was wondering if my symptoms were psychological, but then i remembered it hadnt occurred to me to think that until after i realised what the symptoms could mean, if that makes any sense at all......probably not. I.E. my symptoms came before the realisation of what they could mean, so i couldn't be imagining things, could I?

Sazzarella

I second the advise to see your doc about shingles. I've had it in the past and its really not nice! Also if its shingles it stays with you for life and you can catch it repeatedly!

Counting_Pennies_2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/shingles1.shtml

I thought this article about shingles might be helpful. However from their description it would be unlikely you have it as they say you can't get shingles from chicken pox

SkintGypsy

I had the symptoms just after my daughter came out in spots. The worst fever, sweats and fluey feeling, but no actual flu developed. I was fine after a couple of days, then husband caught it, spots and all!

Errata

Someone who has had chicken pox has the CP herpes virus lying dormant in a nerve. Being exposed later to someone else with CP can trigger the virus into life and it crops out as shingles. Usually the blisters lie along the path of the nerve the virus was having a kip in.
There is a very good antiviral treatment for shingles, and the sooner it's taken the better the outcome.