I can so identify with you about the chicken pox and the shingles. I missed having Chicken pox when I was young. I got them when I was 57, in 2019 for Thanksgiving. Should have ended me up in the hospital. But do to other medical procedures I survived to discover a circumvent for shingles. By accident when I had Chicken pox I had put the pink stuff on my pox and covered it with paper medical tape. The pox was really painful and itchy as it was right on my sciatic nerve. Within 5 minutes of putting on the medical tape the itching and the pain stopped. I thought this very strange that it would react so well to the tape. But in the middle of the night when the pox's attacked my face, I remembered that one from earlier. I proceeded to put the paper medical tape all over my face. And the pox's stopped attacking my face. I only have one or two scares from the pox on my face. About two years later I got that same over all I don't feel well and my left eye felt swollen only this time it came with an intense pain right above my left eye. These are the same symptoms except for the intense pain that I had with Chicken pox. I began to wonder if it could be shingles as shingles are chicken pox so I put the paper medical tape over it and the pain stopped. It seems that they need oxygen to come forward. I reported this to my doctor and she is currently doing a study. I hope you found this helpful.