Yes, Ebbie, it can occur along many of the nerves in the body. In the eye means it was the trigeminal nerve that was affected, which involves the eyes and head. The chickenpox virus leaves copies in the nerve sheaths, which years later at times of physical stress or ill health can regenerate as shingles. I had shingles extremely badly. I was immediately given Acyclovir tablets, intended to diminish the virus' regenerating cycle, but to no avail. My entire back and left side were like raw meat, and after 2 weeks I had Post Herpetic Neuralgia, which doesn't begin to describe the intense pain. No painkillers did any good, and in the end I was given Amytriptillin, an old-fashioned anti-depressant which strangely removes the pain after 3 days. It works by blocking the nerve/pain pathways to the brain. (I wasn't depressed, just in agony!) But after 3 weeks on that, I was doped up like a junkie, my mouth was dry with a metallic taste and I could do nothing but lie on the sofa in a stupor. Luckily, on withdrawal of the drug, the pain had gone, but even now I get weird electric shocks around my side from time to time. So go for the injection please! You do NOT want shingles, you really don't! I'm too old to have it sadly, but (touch wood) never got the thing again and maybe won't.