Is this shingles

[iwhaldh]

This started as a tiny spot this morning and now looks like this, it burns and feels like sunburn and the pain goes up my arm into my armpit but it’s seems bizarre it’s just one spot I’ve been to the pharmacy and they say it’s suspected shingles and have given me the antiviral mi

My mosquito bites do that, but I'm allergic to them, so not unexpected.

Doesn't look like shingles

Doesn't look like shingles to me. I'd say an insect bite as well.

I had shingles on my back, patch of small very itchy spots. Much smaller than that one.

Spider bite of some sort?

No, it doesn't look like Shingles.

Looks like you've been bitten by something to me OP.

Draw a line around the red bit.

Why has the pharmacy given me antivirals for it ?

I think more likely a bit with that red swelling around it. Is there any itching? Shingles blisters are usually a little more yellowy in colour and a bit flatter.

Not like any shingles rash I have ever seen. Deffo a bite more likely.

It doesn't look like it to me, at all. A bite, maybe?

Not itchy it feels very tingly and when my clothes brush up against it it feels sun burnt the whole area not just the spot

probably should mention I’ve been home quite unwell wi th my two kids who have had chickenpox this week to

Hmm, well the symptoms sound Shingly, but you can't get Shingles from chicken Pox, it's the other way round...

Yeah I thought that to

I think it could (sorry, I can't work see what part of you that is on my phone screen!!). They're on one side (very very rare it would be both), start with blisters, maybe just one blister to start, and follow what are called the dermatomes of the body. These dermatomes follow the spinal nerves, basically. If it goes up the arm and into the armpit it sounds like the infection started in C8 dermatome which comes off the vertebrae in your neck.

It doesn’t look like shingles to me at this stage.

It’s just above my elbow and the pain is up my arm into the armpit very tender to touch, and it’s just on the one side its spread significantly from this morning it was just a little blister I can’t open my arm up as it feels very burnt and tingly and hurts when anything touches the area, I just thought if it was shingles I would be a lot more ill, I have a very bad headache and am tired just worrying as I don’t want to take time of work if it’s not and don’t want to go in if it is as I work with people who are vunerable x

If it is will others blisters come up and what’s the timeline this started this morning

I have shingles at the moment and looks nothing like that! It’s a line of blisters with a red rash around it.

Looks like a spider bite to me, not very shingly

Thanks for all the replies I just wish the pharmacy didn’t say shingles it’s worried me

It may be. Mine started with one small spot that I thought was a bite, it had multiplied to 3 or 4 in a little cluster over the next couple of days, and then spread from my center stomach to center back over the next 5 days ish. It was absolute agony, and felt like burning. I couldn't have any clothes or anything touching me.

I used the spray Virasoothe which did help slightly.

I wouod also say spider bite. Might need antibiotics not anti viral.
Nothing like shingles I've seen on my child.