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Sherryg683 · 08-29-2007, 10:05 PM

I don't want to blame everything on shingles, but about a month before my huge outbreak of shingles, I had this terrible continuous pain in my spine right about where you say yours hurts. It was more on the right than left side. It was this dull throbbing pain. Then when I broke out in the shingles it was radiating from that spot. I have read that some people will get this type of pain a month or two before the initial break out of the shingles. I was also told recently that I have arthritis, maybe this could be your case also. My bone MRI's were clean and boy do I have pain in between my shoulders in my spine..sherryg

08-29-2007, 10:05 PM	#10
Sherryg683 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,014	I don't want to blame everything on shingles, but about a month before my huge outbreak of shingles, I had this terrible continuous pain in my spine right about where you say yours hurts. It was more on the right than left side. It was this dull throbbing pain. Then when I broke out in the shingles it was radiating from that spot. I have read that some people will get this type of pain a month or two before the initial break out of the shingles. I was also told recently that I have arthritis, maybe this could be your case also. My bone MRI's were clean and boy do I have pain in between my shoulders in my spine..sherryg __________________ Sherry Diagnosed: December , 2005 at age 44 13+ positive lymph nodes Stage IV , Her2+, 2 small mets to lungsChemo Started: Jan, 2006 4 months Taxotere, Xeloda, Hercepin NED since April 2006!! 36 Rads to follow with weekly Herceptin indefinately 8 years NED now Scans every year Life is not about avoiding the thunderstorms, it's about learning to dance in the rain!