What are the symptoms of shingles?

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What are the symptoms of shingles?​

Shingles typically starts out as a band of tenderness or tingling on your skin and then turns into a painful rash. “People will tell you, ‘It was the worst pain I ever had,’” Rapuano says.
What happens if you get shingles around your eyes?
If the shingles rash appears around the eye or forehead, it can cause eye infections and temporary or permanent loss of vision. If the shingles virus attacks the ear, people may develop hearing or balance problems. In rare cases, the shingles virus may attack the brain or spinal cord.

Can shingles cause one side of your face to droop?​

If you get shingles on your head or scalp, you may get headaches and weakness on one side of your face (causing that side of your face to look droopy). This usually goes away, but it may take many months – especially if you’ve had a lot of weakness of your face muscles.
Are shingles on the rise?
Over the past six decades, cases of shingles have been on the rise. The number of ocular shingles (shingles in the eye) cases in the United States has tripled from 2004 to 2016, according to Kellogg Eye Center research presented at the 2019 Association of Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

Shingles (herpes zoster) causes pain and a blistered rash. The rash can appear anywhere on the body but will be on only one side of the body, the left or right. It will be in a band, a strip, or a small area. The pain can be very severe. Shingles can also cause tingling or itching in the area of the rash.
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. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox.