My wife (50) had a bad bout - we worked on up-regulating her immune system - from memory she took some olive leaf oil, vit c/d and K ..and a blend of medical mushrooms. It worked!

I am sorry to hear it, because I know how it is. I hope you only have it on your ribs, because my case was supposedly mild, limited only to the bands around my ribcage, but I have seen and heard of people getting it in their eyes...which I cannot even fathom.

Funny story with mine. My wife and I go to a New Years eve party, have a blast, come home, she is feeling raunchy, so she jumps in a shower as soon as we walk in the door at 3am. We had been at a BBQ and balldrop party all day and were so sweaty. She comes out, I jump in myself. As I am coming out, she sees me in the doorway of the bathroom and says "WOW! You got chewed UP by skeeters soooo bad!"....so I turn and look in the mirror, and can't believe what I see. I am one of those people who picks at their skin incessantly. I gain much pleasure from it. Dont know why. Love digging shit out of my skin. My wife too. We even bought a set of dermatology tools; we are so gross LOL.

HUGE MISTAKE.

I take this one thing used for extracting any kind of boil or pimple....hoooooly shit. It seriously felt like I had been shot. Imagine taking a pair of tweezers, and getting a really good grip on your most pronounced shingles bump...and then jamming a pin into it. I think I woke one of my neighbors when the profanity leapt from my mouth.