There’s some anti-viral you can take - I was given it - but IIRC it needs to be started fairly early on.
My shingles started one good Friday, with aches in the kidney area, so until I managed to see the GP on the following Tuesday, I thought I had some dire kidney disease.
But by then the rash had come out - I hadn’t even noticed it - so she diagnosed it straightaway. And I think the medication must have worked to some extent, since it was a relatively mild case.
Angela Rayner lashes out and calls Sunak “pint sized loser”.