on your face??? Ouch! My Mother used to get them often for a while. She would get them on her back and/or stomach. They looked like little blisters. They were terrible painful for her, she said it felt like someone was stabbing her with a knife in each sore all the way through her muscle. The doctor would give her high doses of valtrex (I think that's what she was taking), but they would come back very easily if she got stressed mentally or physically. It is a string of herpes, so are coldsores. I get those sometimes (you know the blisters on your lip) and I have a prescrip for valtrex for it. Sometimes I will get a coldsore on or in my nose too or below my lip.
Once you have gotten shingles/coldsores, the virus lays in your system until something triggers it...usually mental or physical stress. Chances are you could get them back again.
note - when my mom had the shingles, she would wash her clothing seperate from ours and disinfect the washer w/ a solution of bleach. I've heard they are highly contagious, but I'm not sure. I know coldsores are. The rest of the family never got the shingles, so if it was contagious, the bleach worked I suppose.
I hate when I get coldsores, I am so self-conscious of them...big ole nasty sores on my lip...yuck, I just got over one last week.
The vitamin Lysin is suppose to help w/coldsores, maybe it would help w/shingles too, you could check into it.
Good luck, hope they heal quickly (and don't leave scars) and you feel better soon.