I have a couple of blisters come up on/in my ear, some pain in my ear, and nerve pain/tingling/skin soreness across my ear, cheek, around the eye, down the neck and oddly as far as into my left arm.
Eased by the fact that I have good pain meds for other reason, but there nevertheless.
I don't feel ill particularly, other than the way the weird facial pain makes me think I am going to have a migraine, but without it developing into one.
Is this shingles? do I need to see the gp? do i need to avoid people ? or can I just continue self medicating? how long is it infectious for? there are pregnant people at work, don't know if they are immune.
(i have had this before, several times, in my life, but never considered it to be shingles, until i read a little about it when the children got chicken pox, so not been to the docs about it for years, last time was when i was a teenager, had blisters on ear, told it was a virus. had not connected the face pain then).