Is that rash shingles or something else?

A streak of skin on the right or left becomes extra sensitive and then painful for no reason, followed by an itchy skin eruption. Is it shingles? You send a picture of the area via cell phone to your doctor friend, and you start immediately on a potent antiviral that he or she calls in.

This is done to prevent a long and painful disease called post herpetic neuralgia. Shingles is just a late manife…