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Originally Posted by TimT

I recently started seeing a new Dr, and he asked if I had had Chicken pox, I couldn't remember so he ordered a test to see if I have the virus in me. I was clean... so no shingles in my future

You may want to ask your doctor about the vaccine. Since you never had chickenpox as a child, you are still at risk of contracting chickenpox from people who have active symptoms, and: ...for those who didn't catch it in childhood, an attack of chickenpox can produce serious, sometimes lethal, complications. Adults are at risk of pneumonia and, less commonly, encephalitis (infection of the brain).
- http://immunise.health.gov.au/internet/immunise/publishing.nsf/Content/Handbook-varicella

Originally Posted by recycled sixtie

I am not a medical person but understand that shingles is a different strain from herpes. I understand that stress can bring out shingles.

Wiki agrees with you:
Herpes zoster, commonly known as shingles, is a viral disease.... Herpes zoster is not the same disease as herpes simplex, despite the name similarity