Sitting in A&E, with piercing pain radiating across his forehead and his left eye, David Hadfield clutched his head, struggling to work out what was going wrong.The answer emerged during his hour-long wait at Manchester Eye Hospital. A ‘bumpy, burning rash’ began to develop down one side of his forehead, just above his left eye and eyebrow, a symptom which immediately ‘gave the game away’ to doctors examining him: he had shingles.‘I was absolutely astounded,’ says David, 76, who lives in Alderley Edge in Cheshire. ‘I didn’t know much about the condition, but I certainly didn’t think it could affect your face or eyes. It came out of nowhere.’
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