Posted on 03/03/2021 8:16:30 AM PST by Fido969
Not an easy choice, and your doc may tell you not to, but you may want to re-think that.
Allergies easily countered with a few meds vs possible major pain for at least 6 weeks up to endless (post-herpetic nerve pain).
I’m getting the shot when things are clearer.
My husband and I just did all of that back in November. Shingles, pneumonia and flu (I typically don’t get the flu shot on a yearly basis, but I did this year, for whatever reason). Anyway, then...went back to get the 2nd dose Shingles shot.
Glad we got that out of the way. I had a slight fever and didn’t feel well, both times...only lasted about a day. My husband...same thing, but only after the first shingles shot. He didn’t experience anything after his second dose.
I got chickenpox as an adult, on my 25th birthday in fact. I had been exposed by my nieces and nephews who caught it from school. Mom thought all six of us kids had it when we were children, but she was wrong. Both my younger sister and I broke out as adults at the same time. I had a pretty severe case. I missed almost two full weeks of work.
Then when my kids were young, they each got it. The youngest had a very mild case with his siblings as an infant, but then got a full blown case when he was 7 or 8. So he had chickenpox twice.
I haven’t had the shingles shot but I’m wondering if my late exposure is keeping the virus dormant, or if I should go ahead with it. I want to wait until after I get my 2 doses of the CoVid vaccine, and I have to follow that with a T-DAP, so that I can visit my soon-to-arrive first grandchild.
It will be dumb luck if I come down with shingles before I can fit the vaccine in to the schedule. I hope that doesn’t happen.
Just talked to my doctor’s office. She wants me to get the COVID vaccine before the shingles vaccine (I am male but my doctor is female).
“Had the two shot variant last spring from VA. This winter I came down with a severe case that lasted two months”
The Shingrix vaccine does not contain live virus, so it could not have given shingles to you. The vaccine is only about 90% effective, however, so you were in the unlucky 10%. The Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are about 95% effective.
My grandma had them and had the life long nerve pain she could never get rid of.
My wife had them, twice. Not fun.
Some Doctors and RNs, we know, felt that I probably got the WhoHoo virus and gave it to my son and grandson before we knew anything about it.
The questions to us was it circumstance or did the Shingles shot trigger what was there and on me, or did I end up with the WhoHoo after my shingles shot set me up.
It lasted 7 weeks. I still have discolored scars.
And it was the worst experience of my life. Pain beyond anything I thought possible.
We have had several friends our age 80 something who got shingles and had your experience.
Fall of 2019 The WhoHoo was here in the San Francisco bay area and up to Seattle.
That was determined by Stanford.
There are a few others on line here who apparently or may have had the early stuff.
I've posted on other threads how my sister had COVID the week of Christmas and had to spend a week in the hospital. She also developed pneumonia and had to be on oxygen. Her husband never got at all sick. At some point he was tested for COVID and did have the antibodies. Shortly before COVID-mania started, he had the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella). There is a school of thought that the MMR vaccine may help ward off COVID.
In 2017, I had a flu shot in one arm and a pneumonia shot in the other. After work that day, I went home and mowed the back yard; felt fine. At some point, I woke up in the night freezing and shivering uncontrollably. My wife was scrambling for extra comforters to put on me to warm me up. She barely touched my right arm and I screamed in agony. One of the shots (don't remember which shot went in which arm) had mad my right arm so sore in the area of the shot that it could not be touched there. That was a Thursday night, and I had mild flu-like symptoms for a few days. By Sunday I felt fine and was back at work on Monday. Don't know if the reaction was caused by one or both of the vaccines. I do not plan to get two at the same time again.
The earlier shingles vaccine was only 60% effective (or so). The Shingrix vaccine is a big step up in efficacy.
“The earlier shingles vaccine was only 60% effective (or so). The Shingrix vaccine is a big step up in efficacy.”
Agreed.
The earlier shingles vaccine was only 60% effective (or so). The Shingrix vaccine is a big step up in efficacy.
Which is probably why MDs and RNs in the front line of health care often did not get the shot for them or their families.
I got my second shingles shot about a month ago now. Arm hurt some for about a week, but nothing compared to how much shingles would hurt. (My dad had it, and a friend had it in the eye).
Olive Leaf Extract is a natural remedy for shingles.
Just talked to my doctor’s office. She wants me to get the COVID vaccine before the shingles vaccine (I am male but my doctor is female).
Shingles is seldom fatal.
Covid 19 depending on our age can be fatal.
I intend to get the shingles vaccination at my next physical. I have had gout attacks and they are agonizing. None since I have started taking allopurinol daily. If someone has suffered through both gout flares and shingles, which is more painful?
When did Shingrix come out? I’ve been putting off the shingles vaccine but after reading this thread I’m ready...
Yes, which was only a year ago basically. 2 years was the winter of ‘18-‘19.
Did you mean just a year? Then yes, maybe there is a possibility.
A close friend died last fall with pancreatic cancer.
That was bad enough and toward the last he got Shingles. His wife said it seemed be more painful than his terminal cancer.
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