can shingles cause respiratory disease. i have been diagnosed with shingles and now have a sore throat nasal congestion and coughing. are they related or coincidental?
shingles can have systemic (whole body) effects like fatigue headache malaise etc. but it would be uncommon for shingles to directly cause a sore throat nasal congestion and coughing. my guess (and it is only a guess) is that your symptoms are coincidental. there are no rules in medicine that state a person can only have one health issue/problem at time or that all current symptoms are related to just one cause.