Will you get the shingles vaccine?

Please get the shingles vaccine! The current one is about 90 to 95% effective. No matter the cost, it is worth it. I am in my 4th month of shingles--it has laid me low in every way.
 

Shingles vaccine recommended for over 70s in Australia and huz had his vaccination recently
I had Shingles as a teenager in the late 60s and laid me low but have not had a recurrence
I will have the vaccination when my 'use by date' or 'best before date' arrives 😊
 
I never had chickenpox. I was exposed many times but never got it. My son, too, only he had to take chickenpox vaccine for college.
 

peramangkelder said:
Shingles vaccine recommended for over 70s in Australia and huz had his vaccination recently
I had Shingles as a teenager in the late 60s and laid me low but have not had a recurrence
I will have the vaccination when my 'use by date' or 'best before date' arrives 😊
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You had shingles as a teenager?
Wow! I’ve never heard of this before.
How long did you have in for and what was it like?

I’ve only personally known one person who had this and she was a family friend. We met these people when we used to go camping and she was a painter and he was a woodworker. They had the nicest, most interesting house ever that was filled with art and she was ever so nice. I mean exceptionally nice. The kind of person who never gets upset. She aged beautifully, was kind hearted and always had a big smile on her face.

Yes anyway it was heart wrenching visiting her and seeing her in such agony. It broke my heart knowing she couldn’t paint or do any of her artwork any more.

The reason I mention her is that whenever the word shingles comes up I always think of her.
 
ms gamboolgal and I have had the Shingles shots that took a series of 2 X shots.

Shots have always knocked me down pretty good.
But these were not too bad for us.

We have known folks who had the Shingles, and our son had them as a young adult. It is terrible on adults or it can be

We do not want to get them, and the shots help to reduce the chance that we'll get them.

gamboolman....
 
I had the first one near the end of February and am waiting for the second dose. I called my healthcare system and they're not giving them yet but said I can wait longer than 6 months before getting the second one. I'll be checking back in with them late this month or early next month.
 
Well I’ve had the chicken pox as a child as well as gullian barre and I definitely don’t want to get this. I think my husband has had his. They are free at our pharmacy so I will check it out.
 
Last month I just got the second dose of the new two dose vaccine. Got the first in January, and the second has to be between 3 and 6 months after the first. Was able to get it at the pharmacy, and no co pay. Will be getting the second of my two pneumonia shots in August.
The only "side effect" if you want to call it that is some soreness at the injection site for a couple days,
 
jaminhealth said:
No it's not, she was about 66 and getting up all hours of the night with a crying puppy. It would be compared to having a baby at 66 and up all hours with it crying.


I don't recall ever shingles in my parent's generation. Today, there is so much fear thrown at by big pharma daddy warbucks $$$$..

Do you folks recall shingles in your parents' lives and their siblings?
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No shingles, or the vaccine, and I don't remember hearing of a pneumonia vaccine either. And I am going to be in my later 60's this fall.
 
Gary O' said:
I had shingles last year
More aggravating than painful
Sitting up to get any sleep was the most aggravating
The occasional shooting pain made me look like a Tourette’s victim
Folks shied away from me in grocery stores
Or maybe it was the sloughing facial skin

Anyway, my doc sez I don’t need the vaccine because I had shingles
I know that’s moot, but I’m goin’ with it


....and, to be safe, I'm not training any puppies
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Well, your doc is interesting. Most doctors will say "Get the vaccine so you don't get shingles again." (selling point - also used for flu shots)
 
win231 said:
Well, your doc is interesting. Most doctors will say "Get the vaccine so you don't get shingles again." (selling point - also used for flu shots)
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Yeah, I don't know enough to argue one side or the other

Speaking of sides......the right side of my face still itches from time to time
Been a couple years now
 
asp3 said:
I had the first one near the end of February and am waiting for the second dose. I called my healthcare system and they're not giving them yet but said I can wait longer than 6 months before getting the second one. I'll be checking back in with them late this month or early next month.
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Our healthcare provider couldn't get the shots but CVS could, so that's the route we went. So if your doctor is having inventory issues you might check with the drugstores, assuming your insurance will cover that.

The Shingrix shot hurt and my delt was swollen for a couple days, but that's nothing compared to shingles!
 
If you’ve ever seen someone with Shingles, you’d get one! Worked for a doc when we first started getting patients in with them. No thanks, they’re painful too.
 
debbie in seattle said:
If you’ve ever seen someone with Shingles, you’d get one! Worked for a doc when we first started getting patients in with them. No thanks, they’re painful too.
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Seeing our family friend with this , knowing all she had to give up has made me decide to get it. I’d hate to not be able to play music or do any type of arts and crafts or baking etc. It would drive me mad and I’m close enough there already
 
Keesha said:
I haven’t had a vaccine since I was a kid. Why do you say no more? Did you get deathly ill or something?
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This vaccine they are coming up with for this COVID virus, I don't trust. In the first place, it usually takes 5 years to be approved, case results to prove it or disprove it, and on and on. It hasn't even been a year yet. No, thanks. They don't even know what drugs they want to release to treat it with. Sure, some people have survived because of a drug or two, but then again they are just experimenting. That is why. To many if's.
 

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