Posted on 03/01/2025 5:07:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Harrison Ford reportedly stepped down as a presenter at the 2025 Oscars after he was diagnosed with shingles.
The “Indiana Jones” star received his diagnosis on Friday and dropped out of the awards show on Saturday morning, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Per the outlet, he has been resting and is doing OK. Harrison Ford reportedly stepped down as a presenter at the 2025 Oscars after he was diagnosed with shingles.
The “Indiana Jones” star received his diagnosis on Friday and dropped out of the awards show on Saturday morning, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Per the outlet, he has been resting and is doing OK.
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My fully vaccinated husband had shingles this past fall. He still has lingering pain in his right eye.
Mr. Ford, I hope you have a speedy and full recovery.
It is going around.
MIL had shingles and suffered immensely. Afterwards, she had terrible scars on her torso from the experience.
I had shingles on the top 1/4 of my head (classic symptom). It felt like electrical burning/pulses. Did not get the rash. Took antivirals.
Had the 2 dose vaccine (Shingrix) as soon as I could after that.
“Shingles doesn’t care”... And neither do we.
Both my wife and I had shingles both pretty mild cases. Mine a little worse than hers. We never had the vaccine. Had a friend who got the vaccine then had terrible recurring cases of shingles... I think it really just depends
Re old bs new;
Understood; my point was that they damaged people’s trust so badly that all vax are suspect to a lot of people now,
“Had a friend who got the vaccine then had terrible recurring cases of shingles... I think it really just depends”
I suspect there may be several biological conditions or circumstances that could lead to what we call shingles. Say A or B or C. The vaccine may prevent A and C but not B. People tend to have a simplistic view of what their insides look like. But with each increase in magnification a whole new galaxy of complexity is revealed.
A lot of people take that all the way back to the Apollo landings.
Got shingles a couple of years ago. Made me very tired for weeks. Not painful though. Would never get vax after whatever the convid thing was all about.
You can believe that about Shingles but it isn’t a one and done situation, you can get it repeatedly. The Shingles vaccine is safe, I had it, took without a qualm after watching my wife and elderly mother go through it.
Anybody that skips the shingles vaccine is an idiot!
I got shingles in my 30s. I had chicken pox when in was in second grade. My father and I developed shingles at the same time. We had visited my mother in the hospital. Turned out her hospital roomie had chicken pox. I got it on my torso very painful to wear clothes. I would never get the shingles vaccine.
Your father and you must have poor immune systems to have shingles thay young.
I have had multiple friends get shingles in their optic nerve requiring massive and expensive antivirals to save their sight. They had lingering eye pain for years.
I got the shot.
My oldest son had shingles. He was miserable for about two weeks.
Growing up my family moved a lot and were not good at keeping records, medical records in particular or always keeping up with my medical checkups although I do remember getting some vaccines – Polio and Smallpox when I was young.
I was talking to my brother (12 years older) some years before he died, and he claimed I had Chicken Pox, but I didn't remember ever having it.
I do remember getting Measles when I was in the 3rd grade when we lived in Elizabethtown, PA. The school I went to, had a number of Mennonite and Amish kids. When I went back to school, I learned a lot of other kids had it but one girl I knew, an Amish girl didn't come back to school because she had died from Measles. This was in the early 70's.
A few years ago, my old doctor asked me, as I was now over 50, if I wanted the Shingles Vax and I told her I wasn’t sure if I had ever had Chicken Pox, so with my routine blood work, she ordered a titter. It turned out I never had Chicken Pox.
So now the question was do I get the Chicken Pox vax or the Shingles vax? Getting Chicken Pox as an older adult can be quite serious and one can catch Chicken Pox if not vaccinated or immune from a prior infection, from someone with Shingles, but my insurance wouldn’t cover it.
I keep getting conflicting advice – do I get the Chicken Pox or the Shingles vax?
At my age, I don’t want either. But I do know of some people who developed Shingles, and it was extremely painful and in a few cases debilitating and unlike Chicken Pox, can come back repeatedly.
I have an appointment with my new doc later this month and I'm going to bring it up with her.
I was raised on a farm in the East Tennessee mountains...I never had any of the “childhood” diseases...Chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough......
Just lucky, I guess....
I think Acyclovar (sp) is the anti viral
I hope never to find out.
I have never met anyone that had a case of shingles that said, “boy, am I glad I didn’t take the vaccine for it”.
It is what it is.
Trust is hard to earn back once lost.
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