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Got a Shingles vaccine today (ages 50+)
18-MAY-2022 | self

Posted on 05/18/2022 9:31:21 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Got a Shingles vaccine today. 2 dose vaccine, 2-6 months apart. Recommended for ages 50+


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KEYWORDS: antivaxhysteria; antivaxidiots; shingles; shinglesvaccine
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To: pierrem15; Mr. K
It's called 'shingles" from the cingulum or "sash". For some reason it often tends to show up radially around the torso.

Thanks, Pierre!

The German word for it is Gürtelrose, meaning "belt of roses."

Regards,

61 posted on 05/18/2022 11:20:48 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
I got the Shingles vax last year, and the 2nd dose in January - sick for a day both times.

But that was after seeing a few years of clean data - I don't see the Covid Vax ever putting together two years of clean data. So no thanks.

62 posted on 05/18/2022 11:24:10 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I had the shingles on my ass. It was very uncomfortable for several weeks and I have a desk job. The shingles weren’t as bad as I thought the would be but not fun. I got the shingles vaccine after it was over.


63 posted on 05/18/2022 11:28:55 AM PDT by dis.kevin (Dry white toast)
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To: Deaf Smith
"Experimental Gene Therapy? No."

Assuming you mean the Covid vaccines, they don't do gene therapy.

64 posted on 05/18/2022 11:31:35 AM PDT by mlo
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To: DannyTN
The shot I had a few years ago was two-dose. I'm not aware of a single dose version then or now, but I guess there was one since you had it. Based on a brochure I was given when I had the new version in late 2021, it uses a "recombinant DNA" technology, not an mRNA technology. I became suspicious, but I can't say I've heard of any significant problems with the new version.

I became suspicion because it was mandated in late 2020, just as Covid was (as yet unknown) beginning to circulate and because suddenly I was seeing TV ads for it in moid-2021 just as bad publicity about the mRNA vaccines was coming out. To my paranoid mind, I thought they were trying to round up mRNA refuseniks with a different trap - the new shingles vaccine.
65 posted on 05/18/2022 11:37:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Umm, objecting to the WuhanFlu vax is not same thing.

I’ve had at least half dozen vaccines (not counting the always worthless flu vaccines), including shingles.
These are vaccines — they use actual “dead” bugs and this prevents infection.
The Pharm provides protection against “death” (yeah, side effects) but gives you nothing to prevent infection. Lacking that last, it is worthless to society. Calling it a vaccine ought to be a crime.


66 posted on 05/18/2022 11:47:44 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Since second dose seems to be worse than the first I wonder if it is possible to get the first dose..have some protection but not get the second dose for those of us that might have a issue with the vaccine.


67 posted on 05/18/2022 11:47:58 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: mewzilla; LastDayz

Everyone is so literal. Geez, cool down.

One of my cronies was hospitalized for shingles and ended up scarred and blind in one eye and addicted to opiates. The wife of another had pock mark scarring on the entire left side of her face and has had many plastic surgeries. When I had shingles as a 20 year old, I was out of school for 6 weeks.

Now, it isn’t losing a child, but, you can’t get a vaccine for that and it sure is worse than Covid.


68 posted on 05/18/2022 11:53:14 AM PDT by anton
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To: mlo

Means you have never read the Label.


69 posted on 05/18/2022 11:55:13 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: PUGACHEV

The full cost was $200 and something for 1 shot. Already tossed the receipt. But my net cost was $0 with insurance. Maybe I already met my deductible. I lost track of that.


70 posted on 05/18/2022 12:01:12 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Ukraine published documents reportedly from Russia's 1st Tank Army showing its losses through March )
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To: Steve_Seattle

The shingles vaccine was mandated? Are you in the military? Or a workplace mandate?

Covid wasn’t even mandated outside of CMS and certain workplaces, mostly medical.


71 posted on 05/18/2022 12:26:27 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Did you also poop and pee today????


72 posted on 05/18/2022 12:31:12 PM PDT by Osage Orange (To be or not to be....................)
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To: Osage Orange

Did you also poop and pee today????

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That is one question, but.... should include, wipe & shake


73 posted on 05/18/2022 12:42:42 PM PDT by deport
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To: SpeedyInTexas

When did this vaccine first start .


74 posted on 05/18/2022 12:47:16 PM PDT by mulligan (an En bbnnEeThe to)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Cost was $0 with insurance at Walgreens.

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Yep all us ol’ folks need all the freebies we can get

75 posted on 05/18/2022 12:54:56 PM PDT by deport
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To: anton

It ain’t worse than congestive heart disease, metastatic cancer, dementia.

I’ll take shingles any day.


76 posted on 05/18/2022 12:57:41 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: anton

I meant that literally, BTW. :-)


77 posted on 05/18/2022 12:59:39 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I wore mascara today, first time in 10 years. In a few days I’ll try wearing it again. It used to make my eyes feel funny.

Perhaps I should start a post about it.


78 posted on 05/18/2022 1:20:28 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Got mine several years ago. Insurance paid it all at CVS. My grandmother had shingles. Pretty nasty.


79 posted on 05/18/2022 1:33:17 PM PDT by SubVet72
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To: mewzilla

Then, I can hope you get it. Forget the vaccine. Let me know how it goes.


80 posted on 05/18/2022 1:51:18 PM PDT by anton
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