Can shingles cause leg pain?
Shingle starts as an itchy area followed by small blisters that are confined to a well- defined stripe on the body, and typically on one side of the body. In about 72 hours, the skin gets more blisters the skin pain begins, In a very acute infection, the skin will be red and weepy, and will burn like fire. Since Shingles lives in a single motor/sensory nerve root, the muscle that is controlled by that nerve will ache tremendously. The effects could take 6 weeks to return to normal.
