Quote Originally Posted by Bethany1 View Post
I had shingles when I was 25. Didn't know it until I had a doc appt for something else and he said the rash was shingles and was surprised I hadn't come in 3 weeks earlier. I just felt flu sick for a couple of days and then had the lesions for about 3 weeks. I just figured the rash would go away and since I had been clearing the nasty weeds behind my house I thought they were bug bites.

I'm grateful it was a small outbreak and just stayed above my hips.
My first thought was I had a spider bite. Then when it grew, figured it was poison ivy, which I get pretty regularly. It didn't really look like PI, and was in a place that would be pretty difficult to get PI, not to mention that I had not done any gardening nor had I knowingly been near any PI recently. But when the nerve pain hit I knew something ain't right and went to the Dr. who readily diagnosed shingles. Now almost 4 weeks later, blisters are gone, but the nerve pain.... continues....