shingles

If you ever had the chicken pox then you have the shingles virus. Shingles occurs when the varicella virus is awakening in the body. Signs of the shingles include tingling and a lot of pain also includes a blistering rash. Early symptoms of the shingles include fever and general weakness. Then a few days later you start to notice pink or red patches and rash like on one side of your body. The shingles often appears around the rib cage or waist. This is referred to as a shingles band or the shingles girdle. This can cover a wide area on one side of the body and it can be very painful if you wear tight clothing. Then there’s the ophthalmic shingles, it affects the nerve that controls the facial sensation and the movement in your face. This can appear around your eyes on the forehead and the nose. The symptoms for this are headaches, redness and swelling of the eyes, this can cause the eyes to have double vision or blurred vision. The rash that shingles develops is blisters with fluid inside them similar to chicken pox. New and new blisters continue to develop for a couple of days. It’s...