Posted on 05/11/2025 9:06:05 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The list of potential benefits of the shingles vaccine continues to grow.
Beyond protecting against the viral infection and resulting painful rash, the shot has also been linked to a reduced risk of dementia, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
And now, a new study has found that the vaccine could lower the risk of heart disease for up to eight years.
DEMENTIA RISK COULD DIP WITH COMMON VACCINE, STUDY SUGGESTS
In the long-running study, researchers analyzed up to 12 years of data for more than 1.2 million people aged 50 or older in South Korea, focusing on shingles vaccination rates and 18 different types of cardiovascular disease.
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"The study used a live vaccine, whereas the U.S. uses Shingrix, a recombinant (non-live) vaccine," Dalawari noted. "It’s important to note that Shingrix is over 90% effective against shingles, compared to the live vaccine's 51%."
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Can you say “stock market manipulation?”
Pfizer? Manipulation? Perish the thought! /s
PURE BS to sell more product! Any friggn product!
Shingrix is a recombinant vaccine.
You can’t get Zostavax in the US anymore.
I’ll opt for a therapeutic if the issue arises.
My doc really wanted me to take the 2 shots. Good idea?
What’s so bad about getting shingles?
It looks like you have figured out the secret of good health.
Trust nobody.
You are on your own.
It can range from a mildly irritating skin rash to something almost debilitatingly painful. Length of time it lasts various a great deal also. That said I have no idea of the efficacy of the vaccine
I had an extremely mild case about 30 years ago caught early and treated with antivirals. But I have known some people who have suffered. I guess like everything in life it’s a crapshoot
Got my first shingles in November of 2020, the same week I got mild Covid. It was burning pain, like a horrible sunburn. Looked nasty, too. Anyway, flash forward to today as I'm on a kidney transplant so I volunteered to be a Shingrix test monkey since I'll have lower immunity after the surgery. Caused aches all over for two days but better than the shingles. Yikes.
I got the Shingrix vaccine, and five months later, I was suffering from idiopathic pericardial effusion, which required going in twice to have the pericardial sac drained before they put a window in it.
Shingles is a miserable experience. I had it for years, followed by persistent post-herpetic neuralgia (nerve pain) for which there is little remedy.
I’ve read that Ivermectin does all of that too...
There is no way way I would believe this. It is BS.
Come on fellow old people. We to take this crap and die. LOL
I paid attention to the words. “could lower” does not mean “does lower”.
I got the shots 6 years ago. No problems at all.
Two of my elderly relatives got shingles - one told me it isn’t just extremely painful skin lesions, it can be internal as well, she said her bones and joints ached with every outbreak. She said she couldn’t get comfortable and was miserable every time it recurred.
My neighbor said shingles affected his heart - he thought he was having a heart attack b/c of the pain - but all tests produced normal results. Doctor said it was a result of shingles.
Still, I’m very hesitant about taking the vaccine and so far haven’t done so.
“need to take”
Why does my text disappear so much?
argh
We haven’t used ivermectin, but the antiviral a loved one got worked very well.
You just have to get treatment within 72 hours, IIRC, of onset of symptoms.
Hasn’t been a recurrence, either.
Oddly enough the docs pushing the vaxxes in our neck of the woods never mention therapeutics.
Just vaxxes.
Go figure.
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My dad had it on his scalp and it was around his one eye.
Other than the pain and the horrible itching that won’t stop because there is
no real way to treat it, it’s a walk in the park.
But seriously, he was miserable.
Shingles is awful.
So I would like to bypass that if at all possible.
And yes I had chicken pox when I was a kid.
I’m researching the vaccine(s) at present.
I am very hesitant about ALL vaccines now, understandably.
Shingles is whaa ... ?
I googled shingles and just got pictures of roofs.
So I googled shingles disease, and boy did I get an unpleasant eyeful.
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