Now I know for the future. I think the rash started yesterday, got the meds today. We will see. What scares me is the chronic nerve pain that stays with 1 in 5 sufferers. I wish your wife the best, sincerely said as a fellow sufferer. I think the "over 60" talk about shingles is overblown. So many I've heard getting it in their teens, 20's, and 30's.