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To ask those people who have had shingles....

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Silvercatowner · 22/01/2014 19:33

To tell me how long it was before the rash came out??? I know I am being unreasonable because you aren't medically qualified and I promise I will go to the dr tomorrow if I'm not better. But I feel crap, temperature and the skin round my abdomen and back feels sore and sensitive - it's a very odd sensation. I can't see anything on my skin though (although my eyesight is rubbish) - no rash or anything.
Thanks

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MrsBobHale · 22/01/2014 22:01

I had it when I was 15. I was in hospital for a week. I still get the pain now 25 yrs later if it's cold and I've been ill. Not as bad but a very distinctive pain, and I occasionally get scabs on my scalp.

I've never looked into whether it is possible to get minor scabbing and pain every now and then, so it might not be, but it feels exactly like it and it's where I had the shingles.

It felt like I'd been smacked over the back of the head with an iron bar, and I couldn't turn my neck. I'd say 3-4 days until diagnosis but I can't remember when the scabs appeared.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 22/01/2014 22:05

My DH has had it twice. It only appears on one side of your body and follows the nerve line. He found it very painful. I take it you've had chicken pox? As if you haven't, it ain't shingles.

Hope you get to see a GP soon, it's not a pleasant thing to have, my mum was really ill with it.

1974rach · 22/01/2014 22:10

I had a sore arm pit so walked around like "I'm a little teapot" for a week whilst generally feeling crap.

Then I got blisters which stung like mad all under my arm and down on to my ribcage.

Very painful and 15 years later I still cannot use antiperspirant sprays as I find they are very irritating.

Hope you feel better soon.

faustina · 22/01/2014 22:52

it's been about four days so far for me, but I went to see my gp yesterday and he's put me on anti-virals. i have it on my face, so am NOT looking forward to it.

Good luck with yours - do go to the GP, it does make a difference apparently if you get anti-virals

Hellefrog · 09/02/2019 16:13

lumps on forehead/ scalp head a week last Tuesday. Felt like skill coming through top of head.By Thurs twitchy eyelid. Urgent Care doc said maybe shingles or insect bites on Sunday but prescribed anti virals as close to eye by now.
Scans slowly crusting but should I expect any new ones now and still have lumpy head.
How long for all scans to crust? 🤮

mum11970 · 09/02/2019 16:30

My ds had it at 3 years old and showed no symptoms of being unwell, was only diagnosed by the rash/blisters.

bruffin · 09/02/2019 16:39

I had the rash first (12 spots on my right buttock) and pain came after, but it was infected and had a lump in my groin.

DD had a chicken pox at 15 months and i think a tiny patch of shingles when she was about 7. Was only a tiny bit grumpy and not symptoms other than spots

TooManyPaws · 09/02/2019 17:37

I had an itchy rash on my back and chest, each only the size of a teacup. I really didn't pay much attention to it as I occasionally get eczema. I went to the doctor when I started to get pains down my left arm. He was going to send me for an ECG when I mentioned that it seemed to start from this funny rash. I was actually signed off for two weeks, more as an infection thing which I wasn't disputing seeing as the Beast from the East promptly arrived and we were snowed in for five days down our farm road. I felt a bit blah and slept a lot but I wasn't in pain or really ill.

I've since had occasional twinges down my arm in the same manner but I did wonder if I got a small patch of it again on my shin on the same side a couple of months ago. I just slathered it in my eczema cream but, looking back, the rash wasn't quite the same as my eczema and more like the shingles.

Rockmysocks · 09/02/2019 18:18

Mine started with a feeling like I was being pricked- like with the end of those plastic t shaped tags they use to attach price tags with.

That went on for a couple of days then got a small blister then within a week I had a track of blisters.

WickedWitchInTheCupboard · 09/02/2019 18:22

I had shingles when I was a teen.

It was very sore under my armpit tand I kept complaining to my mother who assured me there was nothing there. A couple of days later there was a red blistery rash in my arm pit and in a sort of circular figure round to near my breasts (it follows the nerve I believe).

I don't remember much other than it was very painful and sore. And I got time off school which was the best part to a teenage me

Rockmysocks · 09/02/2019 18:23

Oh, and the other symptoms others here mentioned, run down tired, achy, flurry. It was the blister that nailed it. Thought the weird pricking might have been a bite but wasn't.

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