how old are you when you got your chicken pox?
By bubblyapple
@bubblyapple (2653)
Philippines
April 3, 2008 3:20am CST
I was 12 years old when i got a chicken pox. it lasted for i think 7 or 8 days. and what i hate when i had a chicken pox was the smell, its smell like rotten fish or something and my mom won't allow me to take a bath, because she said it could irritate the virus more. and when my mom finally allowed me to take a bath (the wound i think was healed already), she gave me a pail of water with herbs, to use for bathing, mom said to remove the bad smell... wewwww... oh well ...
how about you how old are you when you got your chicken pox? how was it?
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12 responses
@nice030481 (1109)
• Philippines
3 Apr 08
my mother told me, i got a chicken fox when i was young. but i dont know how old am i when i get it. when my cousin got it, our parents says not to look at the mirror, i dont know behind this belief that if you look at the mirror the wound will get many.
@bubblyapple (2653)
• Philippines
3 Apr 08
really?? not to look in the mirror? maybe they don't want you to be frighten of your face. LOL!! *kidding*!!!
@lynnchua (3412)
• Singapore
3 Apr 08
I got my chicken pox when I was 18. The first one was on my chin and I thought it was a pimple and I poke it. The next day it grew even bigger, double the size then I realise that it not pimple as it had a smaller one beside it and then it start to grow on other parts of my body.
I still take my bath everyday and it was not so bad.
@bubblyapple (2653)
• Philippines
4 Apr 08
good for you, at least you didn't suffer from bad smell... :D
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@reejane (293)
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
I was 12 years old then and it was around January. I have to be absent from school for 2-4 weeks since I'm not allowed to go to school as I might infect my classmates.
It was itchy and I'm having a hard time to lay still in bed. It was really irritating plus the fact that some of them will leave a mark on your body. Those normally are the big ones.
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
i also had a chicken pox when i was 16 i also hate that bad smell and the itchiness it brings
@underthesun21 (58)
• Philippines
28 Apr 08
i was told i had chicken pox when i was 1 or 2 years old. so i don't remember it, but i have been left with lightened scars in my arms and legs because i scratched the rashes when i got it.
@hey_baby (425)
• Philippines
3 Apr 08
i was already 20 i think when i got chicken pox. i remember the icky, irritating feeling, my mom told me not to take a bath too.
@nancyrowina (3850)
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4 Apr 08
I got them when I was about 8 I remember having to apply calamine lotion all over my body to stop the itching as they scar if you scratch the head off them. I have two scars one on the side of my nose right near the top and one on my stomach to this day. I don't remember not being able to take a bath but I do remember having a fever too as I felt really hot all the time.
@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
3 Apr 08
I got my chicken pox when I was just 6 years old. I was in kindergarten that time. All I could remember is that I was absent from school for 2 to 3 weeks. It was actually our exam week that's why I just got a special exam after. I really felt very weak that time.
@kblakley (247)
• Loveland, Ohio
4 Apr 08
I was 9 and had them over the holiday season. I hated it and I want to say it lasted a couple of weeks for me. Course back then there wasn't any medicines or anything. To be honest I don't remember the smell. My sister had them at the same time. I remember most the calimine lotion my mom made us put on so we had all these pink dots on our faces.
@rhane7315 (5649)
• Philippines
3 Apr 08
i was 16 years old when i got a chicken pox. a day after our finals my body feels very heavy and i'm having a fever that time. good thing that it happened during our semester's break
@kulaskulasito (430)
• United States
4 Apr 08
I was ten when I had my chicken pox, together with my siblings. I too experienced how itchy and grossly smelly we became becuase of it; we weren't allowed to take a bath, we eat bland food, we are made to say at home, our outdoor play were restricted, etc, etc.
Well, honestly, deep inside me I was happy back then because I was not going to school for one straight week. Truly worth looking back at. lol
