The other morning I woke with this stinging feeling under my arm, I checked it and found a rash. I thought it was chafing, but was confused for awhile because who the fuck has chafing under their arm ever unless they pitch softball which I don't. I've been working on my buddies house last week but I finished that so I guess I'll try not to exert much physical activity from now on. Then later on that evening I was experiencing the back pain I had been feeling for just a couple days (again thinking it was from the house work), then I noted that the back pain was on the left side, the same side as my rash. It then hit me when I also started feeling sore on spots on my left arm, the wrist, and left side of the palm, yup, this is probably shingles.
It's pretty common, obviously if you had chicken pox ever, but I didn't think it would come up till I got older. However so far it seems to be pretty mild (also common if under age 50). It hurts the most under the arm where that shitty rash is, which is pretty small compared to the nightmare google image search I looked at. Hopefully it doesn't get much worse than this, the pain hasn't gotten much more acute for the past couple hours so I think I can easily deal with it. It is very rare for a shingles attack to happen more than once, so yea, glad to get this out of the way.
