[header] How to live with shingles [title] Recognize the symptoms. [step] Shingles begins with pain, itching, burning, numbness, and/or tingling for 1 to 5 days. Then you develop a rash. 
In people with normal immune systems, the rash usually occurs as a single, distinct stripe on one side of your body or on your face. Some people with weak immune systems may have a rash all over their body.