Friday morning I felt what I thought was a mosquito bite on the top of my head through my hair. I felt small welt and it itched. I didn t think much about it until about 24 hours later when it started to hurt and had much more intense itching. After another 24 hours I went to the after hours clinic and they thought it was probably a staph infection. Shingles (which I ve had before) was discussed but prescribed a course of doxycycline and said staph was most likely since it was mostly in the center of my scalp and not on one side. Now its been 24 hours since I started the antibiotics and since it hasn t been long enough for them to start working, I m still not sure if its staph. Today the itching is very intense. It hurts, too, but the itching is most notable to me. I have also noticed about 3 very small itchy bumps around the main welt. The whole top of my scalp feels like its crawling its so itchy. When I had shingles, the main complaint was intense itching. And it was a very small patch on the back of my leg. Can shingles be on the top of my head and not on one side?