Shingles on Your face. What were the starting symptoms?

Hi my husband has recurring shingles. He found out that by taking 1000 mg B12.  3 times a day 

1000 mg of vitamin C

3 times a day in divided doses 

Zinc 

And olive leaf extract capsules seem to stop it before others a start. He travels lots with work and sometimes runs out of things and isn't near a health food store and then it starts to get a chance to develop into a more severe case. 

His starts with sharp shooting pains in his kidney

Achy

Itching on his side and tired

He knows that this is starting when he feels this anymore. 

My question is

Last year he had a bout that he didn't have vitamins with him and when he came home I made paste from raw unfiltered honey and olive leaf powder and tea tree oil

And applied it on the blisters a few x daily.   His takes lots of the pain and itching out. 

After a few days. I had a terribly bad headache forms few days. Ached and tired

Them my face hurt like I had been punched and my eye

Also the inner ear all the way down. The meat and all and my nose hurt but was numb. 

I had face pain in the bones and my eye socket and my eye. 

I was off balance

I noticed a few days later the hair hurt and was sore to touch. My facial skin was as sore. To touch it was too sore. Didn't understand how hair can hurt and didn't know what happened. No one hit me.  I highly since the do sleeps on the bed did  he kick me in the face. I thought I should have felt that or they're would be scratches form his nails if he had kicked me that hard.   

I had sharp pains going through my face and ear like a large spike.  

Finally one day I realized this was only on one side of my hair part. Right next to the part on the opposite of my head was nothing. No pain. Then it dawned on Me. It seemed like what my husband said about the shingles 

Only on his one side

Sharp shooting stabbing pain

Severe skin pain to hardly touch it

Fever and ache

I was feeling too worn out to do a thing.   But I didn't have any blisters. So I wondered. I read so many hours and finally came on a small article that says you can not catch it but it can activate your chicken pox virus to start up comMing through as  shingles. And that you can have No blisters 

I don't know that it was shingles but as days went on there was a bunch of light pink deep patches large patches on my face but no blistering.  I made my mind up then to start taking th vitamins that my husband uses and applied essential oils on my upper spine because the virus lives in your spine. So oils to kill bacterias and virus were the ones I used 

By morning it was about Hal the pain as it had been. So I kept doing this regimen. I babysit grand children and my schedule is hard so I forgot  a few times to do this and it came back but when I would do the oils and the vitamin regimen I could tell in two days a big decrease. 

I got up yesterday with the facial pain like before.  But my hair doesn't hurt and my ear isn't the same kind of pain but I have a slight fever

am very tired and

have been for two weeks and off balance and have had a head ache for two days.  The eye hurts and the ear but not my nose as it did before.

Both gums on the side hurt.

I wondered if any of you that have facial shingles have anything like this when it is starting. I'm starting the vitamins and the oils but wondered if this is another bout of this and again NO blistering.  

My husbands ALWAYS have the blistering and they get deep and sore if he is away and has no things to take. Hat hardly happens because we know better now. he has scars bad from the first time he had it

We have thought about a shingles vaccine but have seen too many bad side effects from it. So not sure we want to try that. 

Thank you

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