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Does this look like shingles?

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Rosiee19 · 02/08/2025 23:04

Or shaving rash. Not sure but it’s itchy. And I put some e45 and it burns

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Rosiee19 · 02/08/2025 23:04

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Does this look like shingles?
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Lemniscate8 · 02/08/2025 23:06

doesn't look anything like the shingles I have had or seen, also mine wasn't at all itchy. Unless it is a totally shingles to my experience

notevencharging · 02/08/2025 23:06

Hard to say as it goes a bit blurry when you try and zoom in. However, when my dad had shingles it was more painful to the touch than itchy. It was also in more of a line than spread out randomly. Any spots anywhere else? Are some of them blisters?

Dontsayyouloveme · 02/08/2025 23:06

From what I can make out, it doesn’t look like shingles imo

SoSoLong · 02/08/2025 23:08

Is it painful or just itchy? DH had shingles, the rash was very minor, could have been anything, but really painful.

SisterMargaretta · 02/08/2025 23:08

Where is it? Shingles is most often on torso or face, usually in a line. It doesn't look like when I had shingles, those rash marks are too small.

Matzoballs · 02/08/2025 23:08

I mean it’s not a good picture, but no not at all.

Remy87 · 02/08/2025 23:09

No - shingles follows a nerve line so not a big patch like that and as others say more painful than itchy and it blisters very quickly

thornbury · 02/08/2025 23:09

Mine was a cluster of raised blister-like spots with some redness. It was painless for the first two weeks, but after that became extremely sensitive and painful to touch an area far bigger than the rash had been.

QueenOfHiraeth · 02/08/2025 23:09

Hard to say from that photo but shingles is usually rather like chickenpox so it is blistery.

Burning sensation could also be that skin surface is scraped by shaving and E45 contains lanolin which can irritate.
Time will tell I suppose as shaving rash will settle but shingles will progress.
Good luck, hope you are ok

KillerMounjaro · 02/08/2025 23:26

Shingles is really fucking painful - I have it at the moment and have had it a few times before. Your picture isn’t good, but it looks more like a shaving rash to me.

Lifeissodifficult · 02/08/2025 23:31

No it doesn’t.

Lifeissodifficult · 02/08/2025 23:31

shaving rash tbh more like

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