Shingles

On Saturday morning I noticed a weird rash starting to develop on my back. It kind of hurt worse than a normal rash but I didn't think anything of it. The next day I noticed a rash on the same place on my stomach that it was on on my back. Sunday night I put cortisone cream on it before I went to bed. I woke up Monday morning and they were both bigger with larger red bumps. I was at work that day and noticed a sharp pain that seemed to be going through my body from my stomach to my back. It was uncomfortable so I took Ibuprofen when I got home and finally started to think that this was something more than just a normal rash. I went to work on Tuesday and asked one of the resident doctors that works on our floor to look and see. The verdict...shingles. So he wrote me a prescription. The one good thing that came out of this...a free doctor's visit. All I have to say is shingles is very painful and this medicine has taken a lot of energy out of me. Yuck!