Thanks for this post.
I have been seriously considering getting the Shingrix jabs.
Put if off because of guillain-barre worry. Doctor and PA assistant say not to worry. As of Tuesday this week.
The old shingles version vax CAUSED a painful outbreak of shingles in my late wife. She had never had shingles before.
“Zostavax (Zoster vaccine live), a single-dose, live-virus vaccine that was approved in 2006.” I had that vax and was fine but it only has been proven to protect 20%-40% of the outbreak possibility. Earlier bragging was faulty.
She had the worst luck in being in the “small number” of side effect cases with other Rx’s before, twice directly going into the hospital for them. A doctor said “maybe it’s bad luck.” One drug had the black box warning put on the year after she was admitted to the hospital for weeks. Relative said “That black box warning is partly because of victims like you.” True.
Shingles is NOT FUN...my husband and I have both had shingles and got the shingles vaccine when it came about. We kept telling the pulmonologist and pharmacist NO but about 3-4 years ago, they had a different one that came out and that was the one we got..The pharmacist - not the doctor - warned us about the one that was being given and had us hold off.
I don’t as a rule take any vaccines - never have in all my 80+ years until COPD diagnosis for both of us and we got the flu and pneumonia vaccine for that reason...My husband is gone now but we didn’t have any adverse reactions...Said NO to the COVID one!!
A dear family friend of ours took the Shingrix jabs after friends of hers had Shingles, and she said she did NOT want to get shingles.
She said she immediately didn’t ‘feel right’ ... had a constant metallic taste in mouth, felt tired a lot ... then, a year later was dx’d w/ovarian cancer. :-(
She repeatedly blamed her cancer on the shingles jab.