@ neuroproblem.....There is no way to know for SURE you had shingles at all..
Many eruptions can look like shingles but are not.
Waiting a whole week just clouds the issue. Without a blood panel of antibody titres for herpes (simplex and zoster), you will never know for sure.
Here is a thread illustrating that a diagnosis may be quite speculative:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread220230.html
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