Shingles is bad. Chicken pox of the nerves. It doesn't itch. You know that cold and clammy, alarmed feeling you get with the pain of the dentist inserting that needle into the soft tissues between the gum line and the cheek?
Just like that.
For two weeks.
And there's no anesthesia that kicks in.
It sounds dreadful. You have my sympathy and my hope that it doesn't happen again.