What are the most common symptoms of shingles?

What are the most common symptoms of shingles?

Rebecca Fitzgerald (Dermatologist) gives expert video advice on: What are the most common symptoms of shingles?; Who are most at risk for contracting shingles?; What can I do to reduce the amount of pain caused by shingles? and more...

The visible symptom of shingles is a very blistery rash that looks like a fever blister. This shingles symptom only occurs on one side of the body and runs in the distribution of the nerve. The distribution of the nerve isn't something that the patient would recognize; that's something that the dermatologist would recognize. What the patient could recognize as a shingles symptom, though, is that they'd get one streak of blisters down their leg or around their waist that has a sharp demarcation right in the middle.