Question 1

what are the first signs of shingles? bumps or pain?

Accepted Answer

Bumps come later: Most people with Shingles experience pain or discomfort, burning sensation for a day or 2 before the blisters(bumps) appear. Most characteristically, these symptoms and signs affect only one half of the body area.

Question 2

what are the first on set signs of the shingles?

Accepted Answer

Burning pain: The first sign of shingles is burning pain on or under the skin. The pain is limited to a narrow band on one side of the body reaching around from back to front. Pain precedes the rash. This is the best time to treat shingles. In a couple days the skin develops the typical small blisters and redness associated with shingles.

Question 3

what are clear signs u have shingles?

Accepted Answer

Shingles: or herpes zoster is due to reactivation of the varicella zoster virus established in sensory ganglia following an attack of chicken pox. The resultant inflammation spreads to the peripheral nerve and eventually reaches the skin where it erupts as a rash and extreme pain.

Question 4

what are the signs of shingles activation?

Accepted Answer

Pain, itch, rash: Initially pain and/or itching occurs then with the development of a blister-like rash following the distribution of the sensory nerve where the reactivation occurs.  Sometimes the rash is the first thing noted. Rarely the pain/itching occurs without a rash (zoster sine zoster).

Question 5

can you be supposed to get shingles first?

Accepted Answer

Question unclear: Not sure what your question is. Can you get shingles before getting chicken pox (which may re-activate in later life as shingles)? No. Infection with the chicken pox virus cause pox, first. The virus then lives inside nerve cells for years before it can be re-activated to cause shingles.If that is not your question, please clarify.

Question 6

what are the warning signs for the onset of shingles?

Accepted Answer

Pain: Burning, sharp pain is the most common symptom, sometimes several days before the rash appears.

Question 7

what is the recurrence rate of shingles after the first occurrence?

Accepted Answer

Very low: unlikely to sustain another attack...esp if your are not immunocompromised. There is a shingles vaccine , but usually given to those over 50 yrs old.

Question 8

can you have shingles more than once and what are some of the signs?

Accepted Answer

Possibly: But it takes a very long time.  You get shingles because your immunity to chicken pox has waned, and you get a reactivation of the virus in a nerve.  This process generally takes decades to happen, but if you had the shingles in your 40s, and now you are in your 70s or 80s, it is possible. However, you are unlikely to get the shingles more than once in a short time.

Question 9

if you get shingles once, are you more likely to get it again, or are you at the same risk level as before you got the first shingles?

Accepted Answer

Reduced risk: It's unusual to get shingles more than once.

Question 10

i gave shingles again! i had them in january  2014 and now march 2014. is this normal? this second time is bad! the first round wasn't as bad.

Accepted Answer

Can get shingles mor: It is possible to get shingles more than once. If you were in a lot of pain you might want to talk to your doctor about taking no neurontin, (gabapentin) adrug that might help with the pain. When you get to be older you should also consider getting the shingles vaccine which is 50 percent effective.

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