I do NOT have Shingles! So happy! What a relief. . Thanks to everyone and my apologizes for any melodrama. Still a good topic for awareness. So After three opinions you'd think I would've left it alone but I just didn't want nagging doubts and a month of anti-virals.

I am so, so glad I went to dermatology and had a biopsy. The doc was very surprised. Of all the possibilities for this rash on my foot it is the easiest to treat. Athlete's Foot. Yep. What an embarrassment. The location on the top of the foot and atypical appearance with blisters blew making an easy diagnosis. AF also explains the burning, stinging and itching.

So my husband fessed up today that he got AF three weeks ago but only treated it a few days "until it looked better" which isn't long enough. Hmmmm...what else is he keeping from me? Whether my CRPS foot was just more susceptible we'll never know. I suspect so. I sleep on my stomach with my feet down on the bottom sheet so probably transferred it that way. My healthy foot didn't succumb.

This whole experience just reiterates for me the vital importance of going to the right specialty to check things out. Three doctors saw my foot and thought the wrong thing. Even worse I think the PM was suspecting I maybe just had skin changes/CRPS rash. Ugh! What if I hadn't gone for biopsy?! I dread to think what I would've put myself through, having this stuff get worse and worse. Or having it clear and thinking I had Shingles and more nerve damage. Geez, ya can't trust anybody these days. Dermatology is my new best friend.

thanks again everyone. I am sending hugs all around.

that is very good news...well kind of... I also agree that it was a very good topic....