New shingles a week later?

I am on the 4th week of shingles, rash went ages ago but I have the neuralgia now which is very painful, I didn't get a new rash, I did get a very  sore red rash on my forehead that I found out was re-infected, also this happened to my eye, where i first had it. I was given Aciclover for the second time., and anti biotics and it cleared it up. Good luck .

Hi Summer I have had this since 1988 and had monthly outbreaks it started on my middle finger of my left hand.  I still get it every few months but now in the palm of my hand.  I can get one outbreak and 3 days later start another cluster on the oppsite side of my hand so it is not unusal that this is happening.  As soon as I feel the itching and tingling I start my Acyclovir 800 mgs and take it every 4 hours for 10 days while awake.  This dose has really helped with my outbreaks and the reoccurance.  Talk to your doctor I see an infectious disease specialist for another disease I was just recently diagnoised with after a rape, Hep C and he put me on this dose and it is working.  Best advice I can give is start your meds at the very first sign and it does get better.  God Bless and hope you feel better soon..

Hi Summer, I do feel for you, I have had my first lot of shingles spots out break  under my right breast along the side to my back, my second lot have traveled along my back up to my shoulder.  and the heat is intense.  I often get the tingling but what I do find most painful it seems that the heat pain is  around my lower rib cage ( if you can understand where it is) I get a tightness as if there are muscles along the area it gets so tight and  painful that it makes me cry,,

I dont know what I can take as I am on a lot of medication for my arthritas., I have noticed that when my patches are starting to run out (mine are durigestic you keep them on for 72 hours), the doctors have increased my patches now to 125mg, I have noticed that the patches do help decrease the pain, but like with other medications  you can get fixed on these types of drugs.  Summer you mention that the scabs are starting to itch, please dont scratch them or rub hard after a shower with a towel, because it then leave open ended nerves, which then will cause you more pain.    I wish you well, make sure you take care of those areas,.

Jocelyne  from Cambridge  UK

Thanks for the responses! The new areas that I thought were going to break out never did and my original area on rib cage is nice and scabed over and healing well (I never touched it not even once) I tomorrow marks 13 days and I feel a lot better and am doing most of my usual things but still not feeling totally like myself . I'm hoping that being only 38 and taking antivirals ASAP helped .. I'm also hoping I never have this again. I'm going to cut down significantly on foods with arginine with hopes that will help. I feel for anyone that suffers with this regularly and I absolutely cannot imagine the emotional and physical distress of having this regularly. 1Lori13 I'm so sorry to hear you are dealing with so much ... I did up my Acylovir and I think that finally kicked it, but I think the Acylovir really messed with my stomach. I take probiotics , vitamins and more probiotics regularly because I have stomach issues and I went back to having a lot of stomach problems as well as shortness of breath. I'm assuming that's common but not sure. 4 months ago I was doing 9 fitness classes a week. I've injured my back and i still can't exercise and now this.... Just ready to get back to normal.