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A member asked:
Can you get shingles from sciatica? there is crusty scabs on my buttocks.
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Stress can bring on : A case of shingles which can include pain induced by sciatica. Also, shingles can present over sciatic distribution as it lays dormant in a nerve until it is induced by some type of stress. So one could be doubly unlucky and have a case of sciatica & the pain could also cause a shingles presentation in the same nerve at the same time if one of the nerves contributing to the sciatic nerve.
Answered 3/28/2013
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Typically: No. Shingles can feel like sciatica. So likely you have shingles first irritating the spinal nerve causing the sciatica and then the lesions appear. Occasionally some people can have post-herpetic neuralgia afterwards and than can be the sciatica like pain without the shingles lesions anymore. See your doctor for treatment for shingles.
Answered 7/13/2014
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