chickenpox??!!

**Lila** · 27-12-2006 11:01

wow-
i think i got a real good christmas present- chickenpox.
i broke out in blisters this morning and felt bad already since a few days...
my head itches, my back, my arms...
the blisters start to fill up with fluid- so i think it is needless to ask-
i guess it�s pretty sure i DO have in fact chickenpox!
what do you think???
(my doc is on holiday, of course....)
can you help...
I AM ALL ITCHY

p.s. we had chickenpox in school, so school broke up around a week ago...would fit perfect...

**mum_I'm_hungry** · 27-12-2006 11:33

You poor thing! Hope you're feeling okay. I just wanted to let you know what happened to us this time last year, though. We thought my daughter had chickenpox (my husband is a doctor) and so did our GP, even though she'd had the vaccine (there is a slight failure rate). It just got worse and worse and she became quite sick. Then one of my husband's colleagues realised it wasn't chickenpox, but a bad case of impetigo (school sores). They can look really similar at first. We felt awful as a quick dose of antibiotics and it was all gone. If only we'd known sooner! Anyway, good luck!

**Lila** · 27-12-2006 11:46

thank you soo much alli!!!
i will keep a close eye on it- and hope to catch my gp soon....
as for now- i am just itchy.....

thanks a LOT

**Hokey Pokey** · 27-12-2006 11:47

Oh you poor thing

My girls are yet to get chicken pox...

**Merlion** · 27-12-2006 13:04

Sounds like chicken pox. Jess had the chicken pox last week. But she had so mild that we thought it was mossie bites at first

**Lila** · 27-12-2006 14:12

thanks sooo much girls...
my spots are growing and getting more
AND
i am STILL itchy...

well, i think i will survive, but hearing i might be on the right track is good- so at least i am 100% sure i DO indeed HAVE chickenpox...OH DEAR..LOL
(but - it could be worse, so NO whinging!!!!)

p.s. still no luck with my gp- he probably has a few well earned days off...the one time in year i would need a gp....

**Merlion** · 27-12-2006 18:10

Have a bicarb bath and then put calmine lotion on your spots.

**iluvmeboyz** · 27-12-2006 18:18

i hope you get better soon.

**blessedmummy** · 27-12-2006 18:31

aww you poor thing!! i remember having chicken pox when i was a kid! everyone had it at the time..it was like a outbreak of it!! LOL!! anyhow..emily has had chicken pox...a few weeks before i had clare!! clare has been vaccinated for it, so she should be ok. hope you get better really soon!! and have a oat bath and smother ya self in calamine lotion!