It is up to each individual on what is best for them. I will probably not get a shingles shot. I will probably not get a flu shot. Will DEFINITELY have a mammogram every October. Pretty sure I will never do chemo or radiation if C comes back. I just can't see poisoning my body with more toxic crap just to kill one toxic disease. I lived my life. I am ready to go meet my maker. Who the hell wants to live forever? Not me.
Shingles Shot
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Mrs. Robinson
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- Nampa,Idaho
I DO get flu shots because after being deathly ill with flu in 1972,I swore "Never again!" I have had a shot every year since-except for years when there was a shortage and I couldn`t. Haven`t had flu since-but I haven`t had a cold in even longer so it`s possible I never would have gotten it anyway. I am diabetic,so supposedly have a compromised immune system, but you wouldn`t know it from my health history. Other than a lovely case of Bacterial Meningitis in 2000,I haven`t been sick since,well,since that flu in `72. I do have concerns about some of these vaccines ingredients though-it`s scary. A friend`s son`s pediatrician,just last week,admitted that her son`s Tourette`s,which he developed after a tetanus shot last year,was caused by the vaccine. He also developed other issues-I`ll have to look back and see what all they were. She is bringing him back around with a very strict diet with no additives whatsoever.
Mrs. Robinson
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- Nampa,Idaho
My sister was diagnosed with RA too-although now they say her latest tests say no. She has good days and bad,but is definitely doing better than she was a year or two ago. Because of all that,she passes on flu shots to,and I can`t say as I blame her. Something is going on with her immune system-why tempt fate?
Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
None of us planned on Shingles either SB in fact I presumed I would never get as I hadn't had Chicken Pox. But I was informed, when I argued that I'd never had C.Pox, that when babies get C.Pox they don't get noticably sick from it. They just get a few spots which look like flea bites and are ignored. Don't know in my case, but apparently, in the 40s, Mothers would turn up at the Drs with them, be told they were flea bites and never think another thing about it.
Explains why I didn't get C.Pox at school when just about everyone else did.
So technically, even if the shot had been available at the time, I certainly wouldn't have bothered getting it due to being convinced I didn't carry the virus. But I did! For 56 years!
I used to get H.S. cold sores a lot too, haven't had one for years and I have no idea why they stopped.
Put that inference down obsessive over reaction on my part SB. There's been a few of these anti-vac arguments over the years and I tend to hear the bell and come in swinging on it. I'm afraid the Vitamin C 'cure' was more than I could handle as it reminded me too much of some of the other out there arguments I've been in. I also tend to underestimate people's abilities to research and weigh things up for themselves. Too many 'discussions' with the ones who's sole knowledge of a subject was from what someone said on Facebook, or some loony website.
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....aaaand I don't believe unquestionably everything I read on internet sites, so don't need any UFO warnings. I'll never be the type of person who says 'if I want your opinion, I'll give it to you'.
Unfortunately I am that type sometimes..
.. sorry 'bout that.
Jambi
Genie in training
- Location
- NW United States
So if your body cannot conquer a virus you've carried for so many years, how does getting a shot of the dead virus deliver immunity?
Geezerette
Senior Member
I got the shingles shot a few yrs ago, think I had a $45 copay, only reaction was a little soreness in the arm muscle. I have osteoarthritis just about every place it's possible to have it (2 tin knees from it) & refuse a number of medicines because of the side eff of getting even more muscle & joint pain, & didn't get any from the shot. I know several people who has shingles, they felt horrible for months.
Katybug
Senior Member
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
After watching my normally non-complaining mom go through hell with shingles over a decade ago, I had every intention of getting the expensive shot before retirement so insurance would kick in....but for whatever reason that didn't happen. Then, within a 3-4 month period shortly there afterward 3 friends came down with extremely bad cases of it and I was scared right into my dr's office and paid for the shot myself. (My dr had never mentioned it nor encouraged it in any way...I asked for it!) It's not cheap, but if you'd seen what I saw on those who had it, money wouldn't be a factor.
My only regret is hearing the shot does not give a 100% guarantee -- more like a 50% guarantee, but from my first hand experiences in suffering, I'll settle for anything that lessens my chances for going through that torture.
My only regret is hearing the shot does not give a 100% guarantee -- more like a 50% guarantee, but from my first hand experiences in suffering, I'll settle for anything that lessens my chances for going through that torture.
I had this shot. Fortunately it was free. My husband retired from the Air Force after 25 years of service. We use his medical plan through the government. We have to pay a yearly fee to be in the program. Not sure the amount. Hubby takes care of that bill. For most things (doctor visits, prescriptions, eye exams, eye glasses, dental work, etc.)there is a co-pay, but occasionally at Patric Air Force Base they will be giving out free shots for things like the flu or shingles. It was on one of those occasions we took advantage of the free offer.
Ruth
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- Location
- Florida, USA
After watching my brother in law's continuing pain even after he was over the rash (the pain was with him until he died a couple of years later and he had to wear a pain medication patch 7/24) , I would have paid $500 for the shot,if necessary. I paid $200.