I had chicken pox at the age of 5 and a few complications with it, resulting in being off school for nearly a month. Since then I've had 3 bouts of shingles, one aged 42, another at 54 and the last at 56. On each of the occasions, unbeknown to me at the time, I was in contact with chicken pox sufferers just before each outbreak of shingles. Quite odd and probably a coincidence but strange all the same ...........