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[mcnutcase]

So I had a slightly itchy eye last night, nothing out of the ordinary. This morning, it was somewhat painful. Mid-morning, it was bad enough that I asked my spouse to drive me to the urgent care, and while there, it kept ramping up the pain. I got to explain to them that it felt a lot like the previous times when I had a shingles outbreak in my eye. They gave me some numbing eye drops, which were awesome, checked my visual acuity, which was reasonable, and did the exam, and lo and behold, it was fucking shingles. In my eye. Again. But this was the earliest case of it they'd seen, so I have that going for me. They've given me a course of valtrex, because I told them that that was what had kicked its ass before, and I suspect my description of the pain as "feeling like a spinning scouring pad pressed to my eye" had something to do with their decision to just give me some actual pain relief on their own initiative. For the first time in years, I actually have an option other than hard liquor for dealing with acute breakthrough pain, and of course as a chronic pain patient, I'm hoarding it like a medication dragon and just trying to ignore the eye that's back to a baseline of 8 now the numbing drops have worn off.

I'm going to be really fucking obnoxious to my pharmacist once this clears up. Gonna be That Guy with a shitload of highlighted printouts of the CDC website, demanding a damn shingles vaccine because this is fucking ridiculous.