I’ve had shingles. Nasty. You’ll live through it.
All this fear.
The biggest advice I got when I had the shingles was:
GO TO WAL-MART & buy a bottle of L-Lysine. Take a tablet before you leave the parking lot. The pain of the active nerves was settled down in less than 20 minutes. Amino acid supplement & it calms the nerves.
100 tablets cost me $5.40 plus sales tax. Cheapest & best medicine I ever had.