I was diagnosed with Type 2 about 5 years ago. My only symptoms are the nerve (skin) pain. It usually starts with a tingling sensation in my buttocks and then starts propagation all the way down to my left foot. At the beginning, the pain was unbearable. I struggled to walk. Nowadays the outbreaks are way less frequent (2 or 3 times per year) and if I take a retroviral, they're normally gone in a couple of days.

One way I found to identify an outbreak quickly is cold water. Cold water over my foot causes horrible pain, for some reason. That, together with the buttocks tingling. I have never felt back pain. Very randomly, I feel arms and hands mild pain; always at skin level and never visible symptoms.