How do you know if you have shingles?

• unusually sensation called parasthesias or pain, such as itching, constant aching and burning on the body where the rashes will occur.
• Some may develop fevers, sickly feeling, discomfort, abdominal pain and headaches.
• Within 1 to 3 days a rash red blister will appear on the side where the pain started.
• The rash disappears as the scabs fall off in the next two to three weeks, and scarring may result.
• Rashes on the face around the eye can cause eye inflammation causing you to have eye problems.
• Some patients develop postherpetic neuralgia which is an unpleasant sensations of pain that continue for four or more months after the zoster rash.