Stress and Shingles

Hello everyone,
I was under extrem stress, anxiety, and depression for about one year, then I got a lot symptoms such IBS, eye floaters, panic attack. After I managed my stress and I was enable to go back to normal life, I had developed shingles   which threw me back to stress and anxiety and made think that I have underlying disease.

Can stress causes those symtoms (symptoms) and shingles at someone who is only 24 years old?

[donjoe341]

You should look into bartonella infection.
Symtoms (symptoms) of the condition are:
     anxiety, abdominal pain, swollen glands, sore soles of feet, eye pain, light sensitivity, fatigue, insomnia, leg tightness ( restless leg syndrome), heart palpitations, joint tenderness, stomach issues like IBS, rashes that can look like stretch marks and many more.
My husband and I were diagnosed with lyme disease and we also have this infection called bartonella. We have had many of these symptoms show up gradually over a ten year period. We went into some intense stress at one point and we got drastically worse. Stress weakens the immune system. The body is already under stress from the illness and adding any stress at this time makes everything ten times worse. At 24 you should be able to handle stess without these problems. My husband also developed shingles during his stressful period and we blame it on his condition with lyme disease and bartonella infection. We have been in treatment for lyme for a year now and have geat improvement. We are 47 and aren't able to bounce back like a 24 year old. We see a lyme md because lyme disease is being ignored by mainstream medicine. You can go to lymenet.org to find out more about it and where you can get tested. good luck. I hope this helps.

[donjoe341]

I forgot to mention eye floaters and depression are also symptoms we suffer with. You do not have to have all of the above symptoms to have lyme or bartonella. My son who is 21 also has lyme and bartonella and does not suffer as much as us. He has terrible insomnia, light sensitivty, muscle tightness and muscle fatigue, stomach issues, lack of appetite, extreme fatigue and at times a jittery  sensation ( we think it is caused by low blood sugar, we are not sure. At night he is wired and during the day he is tired.

[Ricobord]

I was also thinking possible Lyme Disease when I read your post.  (I also have both Lyme and Bartonella.) I tested false negative twice, which delayed my diagnosis and treatment. I recommend you get tested at IGeneX where they do more advanced testing and find cases other routine labs miss.