@tliehr That DOES sound much more like shingles. I have zip experience, and was thankfully warned by my dear old auntie at least a decade ago to get the shingles vax. She was in a bad way and severely afflicted. My wife and I both got the two injections about three months apart, and so far so good. But the one-sided affliction, the searing pain, and so much of it spread around, is not like Herpes Simples, the common cold sore.