Shingles (herpes zoster) usually occurs on the torso and face, but it may also occur on other parts of the body like the groin, leg, and genitalia. Shingles affects the nerves and skin ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am a 70-year-old woman who developed shingles on my right leg last June and am now left with neuropathy. It went from the middle of my leg all the way down to my foot and toes.

Rare complications of shingles include vision loss, hearing loss or weakness in hands and legs. 2 Shingles requires immediate medical attention specially to relieve the pain and to minimize the ...

Cassandra from New York told me her husband had shingles: “It wasn’t that bad, just an itchy rash on his leg.” She is under the impression that neither she nor her husband needs the vaccine.

Think again. Chicken pox can reactivate in adults as a condition called shingles. In fact, "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez recently had a bout of shingles, which caused her eye to swell.

One implication could be that patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases are encouraged to get vaccinated against shingles before getting their COVID-19 shot. A man’s leg shows ...

Shingles typically causes a rash on one side of the body and in a particular location, such as a stripe of the torso or a part of an arm or a leg. The chicken pox you had as a child protects you ...

While the rash associated with shingles generally forms on the chest and back, it can sometimes appear in certain areas of the face as well. Shingles on the face Shingles, or zoster, is a common ...

For about one million American adults each year, that long-forgotten rash returns in a new painful form: shingles. "Postherpetic neuralgia can make people feel truly miserable," says Jeffrey ...

For most people, the symptoms of shingles usually fade away along with the rash that may have appeared along one side of their body or face. But for some people, pain persists long after their ...

Postherpetic neuralgia is a painful complication of shingles that affects the nerves. It results in painful sensations that continue after the rash has healed. Postherpetic neuralgia is the most ...