Can shingles be misdiagnosed?

Shingles is a common name for a viral disease called "herpes zoster" and is characterized by skin irritations including rashes and blisters which are limited to a select area of See also:
How Is Shingles Treated?

See all 79 questions about Shingles the body. Symptoms of this disease include nonspecific symptoms early on, such as headache, fever, a feeling of uneasiness or discomfort, which is then followed by more acute symptoms such as itching and burning sensations, a hypersensitivity of the area, and a feeling of pins and needles occurs this is then followed by a skin rash. Because of the early symptoms being non specific and also some of the later symptoms being similar to allergies it is very easy to misdiagnose shingles all the way up to the skin rash stage.