I got my flu shot in November, but my doctor advised against the shingles vaccine at this time because it causes a fever for awhile. Since my temperature is taken every day at work, and they take it if you enter a medical facility; I would have had to self-quarantine until the fever passed.
Maybe 1 day with a low grade fever. If that. I’ve had the one dose version in the past and more recently the 2 dose. No fever to speak of. You need to get it.
I had Shingrix #2 and Pneumovax last fall, same time, same arm. A lot of soreness and tenderness at the injection site, but no fever.
Shingles is awful. I’d get the shot if I were you and, if needed, take a day off from work. If you get a fever it will pass quickly.
“I got my flu shot in November, but my doctor advised against the shingles vaccine at this time because it causes a fever for awhile.”
2 years ago I got my first shingles shot and my wife got hers a day late.
The RN, whom, my wife, knew advised us to get the 2nd shots a couple of weeks apart. She said that sometimes the 2nd shot had some severe side effects.
Since I was the oldest, I went first. The next day I had a minor fever that lasted about 2 weeks.
I felt like I had been gang tackled. I had blood in my urine, I couldn’t smell anything nor taste anything. Our PPO basically ran every test known to man. Nothing organic was a problem.
Thanksgiving dinner at one of our local sons was a short and miserable time for me. I barely ate and didn’t want any left overs.
For about 4 weeks, all I wanted to do was snack a little and sleep.
We had Christmas dinner here so I wouldn’t have to ride/drive. I was still feeling like a bus had ran over me.
After Christmas, I was on the road to recovery.
Looking back, one of my sons got a “flu” that lasted 4 weeks, and he lost 35 pounds and had no appetite, sense of smell and had lower GI problems after our Thanksgiving. Our grandson had a mild case of whatever and went back to college shortly after New Years. None of the women had any problems.
This happened in the N. California area, when, we didn’t know about Covid 19. However, people who donated blood in this area at that time had this virus in their blood. We knew a few guys our age, who had a similar crud. One of them labeled the crud as the AT&T/Comcast crud as we had no contact with each other except online.
That son asked his PPO doctor (also my doctor) what he had.
The doctor, who was our doctor before going to the PPO told my son, that he apparently had whatever I had. Some type of flu.
Later in March 2020, we learned about Covid 19. Then later about its early visit to the San Francisco Bay area in Nov/Dec 2019, before it was “discovered” in early 2020.