Yes but not in the way you may think.
Can you get shingles on your legs and arms.
The shingles rash also tends to clear up in a few weeks.
It most often causes a painful skin rash on the trunk abdomen or torso.
Shingles may also affect the head face eyes mouth or ear.
Felt like someone stabbed my arm.
Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash.
I had shingles a month ago on l arm.
People who ve never had.
Pictures of shingles rash on legs.
Thus answering the question yes you can get shingles on your arms and armpits.
Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.
To ease the feeling of soreness and itching a local remedies can be used ointments gels.
Your doctor can usually diagnose your shingles right.
Shingles or herpes zoster occurs when the dormant chickenpox virus is reactivated in nerve tissues.
Other symptoms of shingles on the legs are relentless soreness blisters a rash prickly pringling high temperature tiredness and migraines.
Wikipedia james heilman md typically the shingles rash develops initially around the side of your torso such as in the photo below.
If you felt pain in the areas described face neck arms stomach legs and have now started to develop a red rash such as the one below you likely have shingles.
Early symptoms include tingling and pain.
Shingles can be seen on practically any part of the body including the arm legs buttocks hips abdomen chest back face nose eyes.
Nevertheless with climbing numbers of cases also scarcer common regions like arms and legs are being reported more.
Now the same pain is on r arm but no sign of shingles.
Rashes due to eczema and psoriasis may last longer.
Less commonly the rash can be found on the arms or legs.
A rash due to allergies or eczema may develop anywhere including the legs and the arms.
Shingles on leg pictures.
The picture of shingles of the leg depending on the intensity of the manifestations may be unnoticed by the patient.
Shingles is a viral illness that affects a variety of locations throughout the body.
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox.
Small rashes although accompanied by itching do not create additional complications and do not require special treatment.
