How long does it take to find out if you have

You can't catch shingles from someone else who has shingles. But a person with a shingles rash can spread chickenpox to another person who hasn't had chickenpox and who hasn't gotten the chickenpox vaccine.

If you haven't had the chickenpox and become infected, you will most likely see symptoms with 7-10 days.

As long as you are not kissing them you won't contract it. However you can be tested after two weeks to see if you have contracted it. Normally you can be infected and not have an outbreak for years, so that old boyfriend or girlfriend you had 6 years ago can give you the gift that keeps on giving.
On fix-ya we don't answer medical questions, we only answer hardware questions, cars trucks computers phones and many other things but not this category. If you want more information you can go to http://www.webmd.com there you can find out all about the virus. Now if you need to know about your car speak up. You can go to yahoo answers to ask these types of questions and have your Horoscope read and contact the dead. Here we work on equipment.

I didn't think he was rude at all. I am surprised you even got a realistic answer considering this site don't deal with medical questions.Actually I am not surprised , it just goes to show the professionalism of the people on here to answer a question that isn't close to the topics that are dealt with here and still answered it accurately.