Had it on the right side of my head in 2015. Nearly reached my eye, and did reach my ear causing 25% hearing loss. After the shingles started clearing up the post-herpetic neuralgia started. Shingles was very bad, PHN is torture. 10 years later, I’m sitting here with a ringing right ear and stabbing/itching pain in my face. I took the Shingrix shots. Rather be dead than go through that again.
I got shingles during the covid scare.
I didn’t know what was happening and just hoped it would go away on it’s own.
I went to the doc when I couldn’t stand it anymore.
It was too late for antivirals.
My episode lasted 50 days. It was the most miserable experience of my life. Excruciating pain. It was on my left side of abdomen.
I could not sleep. I ate so much ibuprofen I got a terrible constipation. There were times I wondered if it was worth it to continue living.