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.”
I have aedical condition that basicly see stress signal and say " thats not stress you just in physical pain!!!". And the best part is, my body get so stressed out and because im in pain to were i cant move but that stresses my body out more cousing more pain!!! My doctor quote when he found out what it was abd why this was happening was " ohhh god damn i never see you a body just fuck someone over like yours has." Im litterly know at that hospital as the girl who body physically hates her but wont kill her.
@@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’ve had it. This was like last year I link so I was around 15. The scariest part was that I got it underneath my left boob, so I thought my heart was being painful. At the time my boobs were pretty big (I’ve since had a significant reduction) so I was wearing a binder. I thought that the pain was from that so I stopped wearing it for a couple of days. When the rash thing came, I thought it was just significant skin irritation (I have sensitive skin and since it was directly below my boob, it was a somewhat common place for that to happen) so I let it slide for maybe a week. Eventually it wasn’t going away so I told my mum and showed her. Almost immediately she said ‘looks like shingles’ and she was right. It was too late to get treatment, so I’m just had to wait it out. I didn’t end up having it too bad. Knowing about it makes it much easier to spot so hopefully if you get it, you can recognise it (unlike me)
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
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.
This comment made me think Mark is secretly Phoenix Wright. One of these days, we'll hear how he was hit by a car and walked away with nothing more than a sprained ankle
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. ❤
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
America replaced those parties with vaccines and they haven’t been as effective, because you do have to keep up on them. Natural immunization as a kid is far more effective overall. We essentially replaced a nonissue with a slight issue, kind of pointless but not usually a big deal.
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 know this!! Exsept i was a 15 year old at the time so wvery nurce would feel bad for me and get me a stuffed animal or some food and i will away be greatfull for those people!! I had started lossing hope at ever getting relief then one day the doctor found out because so many nurce and doctor had explained what was happing and the litter thing i need waa basicly somthkng to calm my nerve down because they got so shot they started think everything was pain.
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 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.
If I had a nickel for every time a comedic RUclipsr 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")
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.
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.
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.
I mean, she’s got a reason to not like vaccines anymore when hers so horribly failed her. My mom got shingles from extreme stress too, but her strain was very benign. She had natural immunity from chicken pox as a kid, and she treated her adult case naturally. It has now left her with very minor scarring and slight nerve pain during moments of heightened stress, but she doesn’t feel any pain at all most of the time. The natural medicine stuff worked great for my mom, and the vaccine seems to have screwed over yours. Try not to judge her for how she’s reacted to such a horrible case, she’s got every reason to be upset. I’m very sorry about your mom, I hope she finds something that will work for her.
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
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.
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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!
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.
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!"
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.
My mom got shingles when she was in high school. Thankfully I’ve avoided it thus far (27), but yeah, I’ve known other young people who have had it too! I think Bang Chan had it like last year or something? He was even performing through it, which seems so crazy.
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.
Not just stress, but anything that can affect your immune system. I ended up developing shingles after having my wisdom teeth taken out because my body decided that was the priority and stopped keeping the shingles at bay. So anything that causes a weakening in the immune system, whether temporary or permanent, can cause shingles to emerge.
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.
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 had shingles when I was in 4th grade. (I had a REALLY bad case of chicken poxs as a baby.) I remember it was on my lower back right side. I don't remember if it hurt or not, but I remember being really itchy in that one spot, and it did burn slightly. 😢
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.
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
Fun story for me. My parents tried the chickenpox party method, but my siblings and i never caught it from anyone, so we eventually just got the vaccine.
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.
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.
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
Oh daaamn that's not a fun disease D: I've had that too, but fortunately it was painless. Just rash (similar to zits) on my back. Fun fact: finnish name for it is Vyöruusu (belt rose) because the rash blooms like roses on the belt-area of your body ❤️
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 was in my mid/late 20’s when I had shingles. At the same time I had gallstones so I had to get surgery done simultaneously. The awful part was that the rash was right over my liver/gallbladder region so the surgeons had to be extra cautious. 😬 Occasionally I still feel the nerve pain in the same spot.
My Geepa got shingles when I was like a baby and had actual scars from it much later that I asked about as a little kid. Not gruesome, but memorable enough that I’ve always taken shingles seriously.
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.
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 had shingles recently but i didnt put two and two together and by the time i went to the doctors they were like "well, that WAS shingles, but you're fine now, bye" lol
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 😂
I had the shingles on my left hip. It was extremely painful. Took forever to go away. Clothing rubbing on it, or wind blowing on the spot makes it even more painful.
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’ve had shingles at least 3 times in my life (I’m 21, it’s a fun time) but luckily because of my experience I can catch it super quickly. My mom is also a person that gets it all the time and she’s deaf in her left ear because she didn’t know what it was the first time she had it and it got really bad because it was untreated. As soon as half my face feels tingly and bruised, I run straight to the doctor
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 got shingles when I was 19 and it SUCKED. My whole left arm was basically useless, when it didn’t hurt, it constantly felt like that no-circulation tingling.
Mark going to the hospital is just a normal thing at this point. Like I feel like at least one or twice a month Mark goes "hey I'm in the hospital...again"
Mark trying not to go to the hospital challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
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Ikr, shingles?! 😅
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
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
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..
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.
I have aedical condition that basicly see stress signal and say " thats not stress you just in physical pain!!!". And the best part is, my body get so stressed out and because im in pain to were i cant move but that stresses my body out more cousing more pain!!! My doctor quote when he found out what it was abd why this was happening was " ohhh god damn i never see you a body just fuck someone over like yours has." Im litterly know at that hospital as the girl who body physically hates her but wont kill her.
Mark: I'm out of the hospital!
*few days later*
Mark: I'm back in the hospital!
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 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’ve had it. This was like last year I link so I was around 15. The scariest part was that I got it underneath my left boob, so I thought my heart was being painful.
At the time my boobs were pretty big (I’ve since had a significant reduction) so I was wearing a binder. I thought that the pain was from that so I stopped wearing it for a couple of days. When the rash thing came, I thought it was just significant skin irritation (I have sensitive skin and since it was directly below my boob, it was a somewhat common place for that to happen) so I let it slide for maybe a week. Eventually it wasn’t going away so I told my mum and showed her. Almost immediately she said ‘looks like shingles’ and she was right. It was too late to get treatment, so I’m just had to wait it out.
I didn’t end up having it too bad. Knowing about it makes it much easier to spot so hopefully if you get it, you can recognise it (unlike me)
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 ❤
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.
This comment made me think Mark is secretly Phoenix Wright. One of these days, we'll hear how he was hit by a car and walked away with nothing more than a sprained ankle
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
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 😁
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.
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.
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.
Marks Hospital visits summed up-
“I can finally leave! Martha I’m coming home-IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN!!”
Sadden to hear about Mark's grandmother. Always nice to hear the boys back together and at it again
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.
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.
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
America replaced those parties with vaccines and they haven’t been as effective, because you do have to keep up on them. Natural immunization as a kid is far more effective overall. We essentially replaced a nonissue with a slight issue, kind of pointless but not usually a big deal.
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 know this!! Exsept i was a 15 year old at the time so wvery nurce would feel bad for me and get me a stuffed animal or some food and i will away be greatfull for those people!! I had started lossing hope at ever getting relief then one day the doctor found out because so many nurce and doctor had explained what was happing and the litter thing i need waa basicly somthkng to calm my nerve down because they got so shot they started think everything was pain.
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 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
If I had a nickel for every time a comedic RUclipsr 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")
At this point the hospital probably had a wing named after Mark, lol.
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.
I had shingles at 22 from stress, can confirm it is an awful feeling. And every time it comes back it gets worse.
My younger brother got shingles as well- He's 14- and it was incredibly painful for him so glad to hear you're ok Mark
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.
Mark needs the Guinness World Record for RUclipsr most to go to the Hospital. 😂
We love you Mark, glad you're better! ❤
Bro, I just saw the Lixian plush in bobs backround. Absolute mad lad.
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.
I mean, she’s got a reason to not like vaccines anymore when hers so horribly failed her. My mom got shingles from extreme stress too, but her strain was very benign. She had natural immunity from chicken pox as a kid, and she treated her adult case naturally. It has now left her with very minor scarring and slight nerve pain during moments of heightened stress, but she doesn’t feel any pain at all most of the time. The natural medicine stuff worked great for my mom, and the vaccine seems to have screwed over yours. Try not to judge her for how she’s reacted to such a horrible case, she’s got every reason to be upset. I’m very sorry about your mom, I hope she finds something that will work for her.
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
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.
I’m soooooooo glad your ok mark 🎉
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.
Not surprised man.
I was 29 when I had shingles and it was by far the most pain I’ve ever experienced in my life
This is when he had Shingles yes?
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!
Marks medical records starting to read like a dictionary
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 had shingles at 23 and have nerve damage in my back now they're hyper sensitive it sucks. Glad Mark is doing better!
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.
I have it too. the last time the rash was in my armpit. It's very painful.
Fun fact migraines and cold sores can also be triggered by stress
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!"
Ty for giving the symptoms as well guys. That way everyone has a chance to notice them.❤
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.
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!
"That's something only old people get"
Me who got shingles when I was 7: I think not
My mom got shingles when she was in high school. Thankfully I’ve avoided it thus far (27), but yeah, I’ve known other young people who have had it too! I think Bang Chan had it like last year or something? He was even performing through it, which seems so crazy.
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.
Mark is so dedicated to working out that he often gets sick to train his immune system
2:04 that brigs so much memories ❤
Not just stress, but anything that can affect your immune system. I ended up developing shingles after having my wisdom teeth taken out because my body decided that was the priority and stopped keeping the shingles at bay. So anything that causes a weakening in the immune system, whether temporary or permanent, can cause shingles to emerge.
Well guess who just had a new fear unlocked by this 🤣
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.
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 had shingles when I was in 4th grade. (I had a REALLY bad case of chicken poxs as a baby.) I remember it was on my lower back right side. I don't remember if it hurt or not, but I remember being really itchy in that one spot, and it did burn slightly. 😢
I got shingles in a crucifix pattern on my back and shoulders. I'm an atheist
The American health care system has a financial entry just for mark .
The most underrated channel ever! Gold content!
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.
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
Bob: You've got shingles in you
Me: Oh crap baskets... I do...
Fun story for me. My parents tried the chickenpox party method, but my siblings and i never caught it from anyone, so we eventually just got the vaccine.
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.
As a fellow shingles haver, I understand. Thankfully, mine was very mild.
Poor markiplier
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.
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
Man I really hope I never encounter Shingles. Glad you're better Mark
Bob: “I don’t believe in Illnesses!!!” Lmao
Oh daaamn that's not a fun disease D: I've had that too, but fortunately it was painless. Just rash (similar to zits) on my back.
Fun fact: finnish name for it is Vyöruusu (belt rose) because the rash blooms like roses on the belt-area of your body ❤️
As somebody born before the chickenpox vaccine was a major thing, I'm SUPER GLAD TO KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE IN MY FUTURE.
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.
That sounds to me like an intimidating quote from some mafia movie, like: "If you don't pay up, Winnie here is gonna give you the Shingles!" 😆
That thumb nail is a 10/10!
I was in my mid/late 20’s when I had shingles. At the same time I had gallstones so I had to get surgery done simultaneously. The awful part was that the rash was right over my liver/gallbladder region so the surgeons had to be extra cautious. 😬 Occasionally I still feel the nerve pain in the same spot.
My Geepa got shingles when I was like a baby and had actual scars from it much later that I asked about as a little kid. Not gruesome, but memorable enough that I’ve always taken shingles seriously.
0:41 "I DONT BELIEVE IN ILLNESSES"
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.
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 had shingles recently but i didnt put two and two together and by the time i went to the doctors they were like "well, that WAS shingles, but you're fine now, bye" lol
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 😂
I had the shingles on my left hip. It was extremely painful. Took forever to go away. Clothing rubbing on it, or wind blowing on the spot makes it even more painful.
Is this why Mark is a masochist. Also Mark seems to be an accident magnet.
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’ve had shingles at least 3 times in my life (I’m 21, it’s a fun time) but luckily because of my experience I can catch it super quickly. My mom is also a person that gets it all the time and she’s deaf in her left ear because she didn’t know what it was the first time she had it and it got really bad because it was untreated. As soon as half my face feels tingly and bruised, I run straight to the doctor
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 got shingles when I was 19 and it SUCKED. My whole left arm was basically useless, when it didn’t hurt, it constantly felt like that no-circulation tingling.
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.
Mark going to the hospital is just a normal thing at this point. Like I feel like at least one or twice a month Mark goes "hey I'm in the hospital...again"