Bob, I started out with an itch on my shoulder blade, it would come and go and sometimes it was kind of stabbing. This went on for 3 weeks - no big deal really then on the last day of Spyderfest I had a few bumps. Maybe 6 total in a couple of square inches. I got home from SF on Monday and went to the doctor on Tuesday. Again, I repeat, he said that the outbreaks you see on the commercials were the result of people not promptly treating the shingles. I never had any real bad pain, it was just uncomfortable sometimes and I used the lidocaine patches and took the full course of antibiotics.

Just go to the dang doctor.