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Shingles symptoms
Depending on the nerves involved, shingles symptoms can be experienced on many parts of the body. The first symptoms of shingles are often burning, sharp pain, tingling, or numbness in or under your skin on one side of your body or face. Shingles most commonly appears on the back or upper abdomen and sometimes on the facial area.
Because shingles tend to follow nerve paths, the blisters are usually found in a line, often extending from the back or flank around to the abdomen, just on one side. Shingles never cross the midline of the body. The word shingles comes from the Latin word for belt or girdle. The rash also may appear on one side of your face. Some people have painful eye inflammations and infections. You may have severe itching or aching rather than pain. When the rash is at its peak, symptoms can range from mild itching to extreme and intense pain.
Advanced shingles symptoms Typically, 1-3 days after the pain starts, a rash with raised, red bumps and blisters erupts on the skin in the same distribution as the pain. They become pus-filled, then scab over by 10-12 days. The rash disappears as the scabs fall off in the next 2-3 weeks, and scarring may result. Other shingles symptoms include:
- Mild fever
- Headache
- Chills
- Malaise
- Tingling feeling
- Skin itchiness
- Stabbing skin pain
- Scabs
- Persistent local pain
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