Who all had had the Shingles vaccine?

Thanks for the reminder, it's on my to-do list.
I had shingles in my late twenties, it wasn't nice but I'm sure it could have been worse.
Wifey got her first jab recently and felt pretty ordinary for a few days.
 

I got shingles a couple times and it was so minor that I didn’t bother with the vaccine. Then a year or so later, It came back….and it was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced! I have a high pain tolerance (e.g.5 kids home births no drugs) but that shingles pain literally brought me to my knees a couple times!

My doc prescribed Valtrex to help with the pain and duration, and strongly encouraged me to get the Shingles vaccine after I had recovered.

I did, the two shot series of Shingrix. Slightly painful, but worth it to not get Shingles again!
 

I had it also as I had begun to have some vague rash I attributed to may have been shingles beginning a few months
prior to Shingrex coming out free. The shot is a strong impact but it just lasts the blink of an eye. Sore arm for a day or so.
But no more rash has appeared since I had it. That itching of that rash lasts for days and weeks. I won't regret getting it.
 
My mother at the age of 60 got the
Shingles on her forehead. It was
Terribly painful for her. She suffered with
Significant nerve damage in the immediate
area of the shingles for a very long while..
 
This is true. So back when I had my last Shingles vaccine the pharmacist shared with me the following.

Said that exactly two weeks after he’d received his Shingles vaccine and the very last one, that he came down with Shingles
and it was a bad case as he described it.

I asked him how that could have happened
and why.

He explained the shingles was likely already
In motion at that time not beknownst to him,
and that the vaccine was unable to stop it
In it’s tracks.
 
I had the old type of shingles shot several years ago, and in spite of it I got a mild case of shingles (luckily just on a leg) which was painful but not horridly so. After I got over that I got the two dose shingrix shots even though I had to pay a couple hundred dollars for each.

When we got COVID shots my coworkers and I were all complaining about how miserable they made us, but then later on when I got the shingrix shots I changed my opinion, the COVID shots were nothing compared to how bad the shingrix shots made me feel (but still worth it).
 
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