Shingles??

Looks like I'm taking a trip to Urgent Care.  The corner of my eye was bugging me yesterday -- started around midday.  Burning, itching, irritated.  Then it started giving few zaps.  Then a similar spot appeared around my nose and cheek on the same left side.  Then a spot on my forehead.  They itch, burn, red, raised bumps.  My eye and face was swollen this morning.

Maybe shingles??  Good lord.  I deliberately didn't do the shingles vaccine because of a doctor's advice to wait until I'm closer to 60.  

I have no idea what else this could be ... it's not rosacea.  That just feels hot -- no painful itching.  It doesn't look exactly like shingles, but it follows some descriptions of early shingles.  Still no blisters, I feel okay otherwise, but blisters don't always form immediately.

**** series of strong expletives****

Just in time for Spain and on my face where I can't cover it.  Doesn't look like much but it FEELS a lot.  Both my eye and nose are really painful and itchy.  Could I be making a mountain out of a mole hill?  Maybe, but it got worse overnight, not better.  That doesn't bode well.  And anything around an eye means pay attention. 

Total pity party happening this morning.  

Stay tuned for an update ...