What do you do

[Kar]

Jess
If it is shingles - then my memory is that it will feel like a cross between pins and needles, a deep bone ache in the bones under the rash, and what you imagine a spider bite feels like - all rolled into one.

I got shingles in my left buttock and then running around my left hip and down the front of my left leg after bushwalking. Before I was diagnosed with shingles I was sure I'd been bitten by a spider. It felt so weird.

[Bathsheba]

Did you ever find out what it was Jess? It didn't sound like shingles... they usually run along nerves and have pain like Kar described... awful apparently.

[~Debbie~]

Jess, try dissolving disprin in abit of water, and using that. Mum treated all of us when we where kids with chicken pox, and it worked wonders. got rid of the itch, and treated the spots.

ETA - just realised how old the Original Post was...

[Bathsheba]

LOL I was digging around in the old threads looking for something else... and I got curious... but there's some good tips here anyway!