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Theoretically any stress, illness, surgery, etc. can start an episode of shingles, so in that sense a hair transplant could conceivablly trigger an event. It would be an unlikely occurance however and the risk should be quite small.
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Shingles is caused by the same virus that caused your "chicken pox" when you were a child. Following your chicken pox outbreak, this virus never leaves your body, but resides in a nerve root (for you this was the trigeminal nerve- the most common nerve affected). This virus can reactivate later in life to cause herpes zoster (shingles). However it is almost unheard of to have a recurrence of shingles. In matter of fact, there has never been a "proved" case of recurrent herpes zoster. The recurrent cases that have been cultured turned out to be herpes simplex, not herpes zoster.
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I am thinking about having a HT but I have one concern. I had a case of shingles about 10 years ago that cause a breakout on my forehead. I read that sometimes the eyes could be affected. If I have a HT could that trigger another attack of shingles.
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