Posted on 05/24/2024 11:40:56 AM PDT by DallasBiff
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am 70. I got my shingles vaccination in 2018. I took two doses of the Shingrix vaccine. I was invited to dinner at someone’s house where someone just got shingles. Am I still protected? -- S.C.
ANSWER: About 99% of North Americans are immune to the varicella-zoster virus that causes chicken pox and shingles, either because they had it as a child or because they got the vaccine. Exposure to the virus, whether it was due to chicken pox or shingles, can cause chicken pox in a person who does not have immunity.
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No you are correct. Acyclovir will work fine.
Notour fault your parents raised you in a closet!
Nope...Raised on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park on a cattle and tobacco farm...Had other farm kids to play with in the streams and woods...
Dad sold farm when I was 14 and we moved to Knoxville in a subdivision...BIG culture shock to me...But I had great teen years and enjoyed playing football and track in HS...
No closet for me.....
“But I thought having had chicken pox in the past increased the likelihood of getting shingles.”
Here’s my understanding. The virus remains in some nerve cells where it is normally dormant. As we age or experience stress, our immune system fails to counter the virus which it apparently normally does on a daily basis. The virus emerges as patches on the skin. My aunt eventually died because she couldn’t tolerate any of the treatments. Apparently, it was a hard way to go. My father had an outbreak while visiting family in Sweden and suffered horribly. I got special dispensation to get the vaccine because at the time the standard treatment model was to only give the vaccine after a certain age unless you met whatever the criteria were. I told my doctor I didn’t want to risk going through what my father and his sister had suffered and he made it happen for me. I have on occasion, had a horrible itchy sore which my doctor identified as shingles. It’s always in the same spot as it appears in whatever nerve is carrying the virus. It’s just one tiny spot and it hasn’t happened in the last few years. It happened when I was under terrible stress at work.
I plan on asking my doctor if I need a booster as I’m seventy now and I was fifty-something when I got the shot.
Viral reactivation following COVID-19 vaccination: a review of the current literature
...A total of 48 articles involving 2067 patients were selected. Of these, 32, 6 and 17 articles reported varicella zoster virus (VZV) reactivation (1758 patients), herpes simplex virus (HSV) (238 patients) onset and PR (71 patients), respectively (some articles discussed more than one of these three reactivations). Possible pathogenetic mechanisms underlying viral reactivation are still not understood...
In light of that, especially loved this bit...
...Certainly, vaccination should not be discouraged.
Note to Deep State, Big Med, and Big Pharma: In my case, please do hold your breath while you wait. 😄
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Do the exact opposite of what these lying grifters say.
Thx for the ping.
Ahhh, that is what Pharma tells you.
The roof fell to pieces? Never look up... just a joke man..JOKES OFF NOW... I couldn’t resist.
I got shingles at pretty much the same time you did. I has a burning sensation on my forehead at the hairline. I thought I had burned myself with my curling iron and dismissed it until I woke up one morning with my eyes nearly swollen shut. After seeing my primary Dr.,,he told me to hightail it to my eye Dr. He said I wasn’t in any danger of it moving into me eyes. I got lucky as my bout was pretty mild but it did scab up and left a scar.
To this day I still have numbness in my left chest area that I attribute to nerve damage from shingles.....and I guess I’ll always have it.
I had shingles and it was about a year after my husband died unexpectedly. Was in a pretty, dark place, not taking care of myself. Abusing myself really with alcohol and overworking a LOT to occupy my mind...not sleeping or eating right. Sound like a recipe for lowered immune system? Does to me. I had a mild case. Thought it was poison ivy. Fortunately my bi-annual check up was 2 weeks after it started up and I showed my doctor. She said, OH, that’s a classic case of shingles. Asked what to do she said Vitamin C and try not to scratch it lol!!
“For me it ran from my breast bone around my chest, under my left arm all the way to my backbone.”
that’s one of the classic meridians for shingles ... and that’s right where the hornet stung me ...
yeap, they both work but i *THINK* famciclovir may have a lower side-effect profile ...
Probably a good idea ... a mRNA “vaccines” now.
My mother claims I had chickenpox twice. Once at around 7 months old (don’t remember since I was still recovering from being circumcised- couldn’t walk for a year) and then again at 6 or 7. I remember that one. Anyway, I don’t believe it. Just like I really don’t believe I’m allergic to penicillin as I was told since a small child. Probably used too much during that time I couldn’t walk.
I am refusing all vaccines now.
I’m in my 80s, had chicken pox and measles at the same time as a child.
Also had both the single shingles shot and the 2 shot series.
Have to admit that the second shot of the 2 shot series made me pretty sick.
Ran a fever and joint pain.
I should be shingles proof.
Huge pills but it gets the job done.
yep, valtrex works great too!
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