I got the shingles shots earlier this year. Friend who had shingles and said it was utterly intense pain, very unpleasant. Anyone who had Chicken Pox as a kid can have a shingles outbreak as an adult and by all accounts it is to be avoided.
The thing about the shingles shot is its 40 percent failure rate of
I had similar reactions to the shingles shot in the Nov, before we knew about Covid.
A good friend and I both had a similar unusual reaction to the 1st Covid shot. We both developed the classic shingles red/rash crud on our chests and abs. Which disappeared before the second Covid shot. Both of our drs thought that our shingles shots did its good thing with both of us.
My wife a retired RN, recently had her first and only shingles shot.
She felt crummy for about a week.
The good news not being reported: A single Shingles shot will protect over 30% of us against Covid.