I'm no doctor, and it doesn't look like shingles, but my dad had a bad case of shingles on his leg. So even if it isn't common, shingles can happen below the waist. It fried the nerves in his leg and he has no feeling in it from the knee down. He has to use a walker now since he can't feel his leg or foot. Been this way for 3 years now.


May the sound of hounds never die!