Ditto. Widower who is immune, so I’ve never joined the church’s shingles group.
But I thought having had chicken pox in the past increased the likelihood of getting shingles.
Vitamin C is very effective against shingles. This was published in 1950, but of course there is no money to be made treating a disease with vitamin C.
Yup...we had gatherings.
I’ll take my chances and avoid the shingles vaccine.
I got shingles during the summer of 2021 and my doctor was insisting that I must be immune compromised. She ran a battery of tests and discovered I was actually in good health. Well, it just so happened that when I came down with it, my fully vaxxed mother-in-law was staying with us for a month. My wife and oldest daughter (the two younger ones haven’t hit puberty) have wild menstrual disruptions when my MIL is here as well. Now I’m willing to admit that her mere presence is stressful, but we get along. So, who knows?
“I had the chicken pox way back when I was 7 or 8, everybody got the chicken pox back then, was out of school for a week, no big deal, it was a rite of passage.”
which means the virus went into hybernation inside your nerves and can be reactivated around said hybernation site if said nerves are tweaked, damaged or jolted ...
a wasp sting on one of the chest meridians activated shingles for me along the affected nerve meridian ... a friend got a bad bump on the side of the head and developed shingles there ... and so on ...
trick is to recognize what’s going on ASAP and start taking an antiviral like acyclovir within a few hours of the outbreak ... also, some heavy duty prescription corticosteroid cream can help with symptoms ... the antiviral will shorten the outbreak ... after a shingles outbreak, i personally see no reason to take a vaccine since one will have natural immunity, despite the medical community pretending like a vaccine in such a case is BETTER than natural immunity
When my oldest brother started first grade he brought home chicken pox, mumps and measles (but not all at the same time). That was pretty much the norm back then. When the oldest sibling started school he would bring all of the childhood diseases home for the whole family to enjoy.
“I had the chicken pox way back when I was 7 or 8, everybody got the chicken pox back then, was out of school for a week, no big deal, it was a rite of passage.”
I almost lost an eye to shingles a few years back.
arrggg! NOT acyclovir but famciclovir ... darn spell checker
The absolute risk reduction for this blockbuster drug is 2.5% Plus it has been linked to necrotizing retinosis and -wait for it- shingles!
Confused. This is not new info.
Like tb the chix pox virus lives in body and reactivate when there is opportunity.
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. 😄
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.