My doc really wanted me to take the 2 shots. Good idea?
What’s so bad about getting shingles?
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.
Shingles is a miserable experience. I had it for years, followed by persistent post-herpetic neuralgia (nerve pain) for which there is little remedy.
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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.
Bull Halsey was in the hospital with a condition that might have been shingles during the Battle of Midway.
“ What’s so bad about getting shingles?”
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I have spoken to a number of people who have had shingles. You really do not want to go through that experience. One person in particular, the father of a lifelong friend of mine, got shingles. He was a pretty tough and stoic guy, but my friend reports that he was crying like a baby because of the immense pain that shingles caused him. Again, you really don’t want to get this.
I am not a doctor, and I am not your doctor, but suffice it to say that I got the two shingles shots within the last few years (and I am not a huge advocate of vaccines by and a stretch of the imagination). If I didn’t get them yet, I would get them before they become part of the inventory of mRNA “vaccines.“
I took both shots more than five years ago. I have seen people who have had shingles that have disfigured facial features. It affects you is sort of like Bell’s palsy does. It’s very painful. Right or wrong I’ve had the shot.
Shingles is horrible. My neighbor got it and was in excruciating pain for a year. Takes a long time to get over it.
I had shingles about two years ago.
It was a painful experience that lasted for several weeks.
I thought I had poison ivy at first. I usually wipe poison ivy off with a single swipe of an alcohol wetted facial tissue. That didn’t work. Normally for me, a flare up for about 12 hours is followed by near complete remission.
If you get shingles on your face, it can be very severe.
There is a unique pain response in the face that is claimed to be the most severe in the entire body.
People literally go for several weeks with ZERO sleep because the pain is so intense.
In addition, shingles around the eyes can cause permanent vision damage, and even blindness.
Shingles can also result in permanent scar tissue.
“My doc really wanted me to take the 2 shots. Good idea?”
multiple docs i asked about this ... and they all swore that the vaccine provided better immunity than a natural infection and swore i needed to take it even though i had already had the shingles ... i didn’t believe them because i still seriously doubt that natural infection is inferior to vaccination ... nonetheless, this was pre-covid and i wasn’t as skeptical as i am now, so took the first dose, which made me VERY ill, so did NOT take the 2nd dose ...
“What’s so bad about getting shingles?”
in most cases it’s not a big deal IF treated early, that is, pretty much in the first 24-48 hours start taking famciclovir OR valacyclovir ...
however, if near the eyes or is more systemic than just a single area, it CAN be a big deal, plus sometimes the pain lasts much longer than a couple of weeks for some people, and some people are prone to repeated attacks ...
I got shingles on my face/ near my eyes. Doc-in-a-Box sent me to the emergency room for antiviral IV's.
Possible blindness if it erupts in or near the eyes.
That is extremely rare.
Ordinary shingles is extremely painful. The vaccine (Shingrix) requires two doses some months apart. They cost about $400 per treatment.
The side effects of the vaccine can be very painful in some unlucky patients.
That is very common.
This information came from my pharmacist. It put me off the vaccination, even though she was selling it per company directions.
What’s so bad about getting shingles?
yeah thats what I said till I got it..miserable two months...
I had shingles. Its pretty painful but the doc gave me anti-virals and pain pills and it was pretty well gone in 10 days. I had no lasting effects but I know my Mom had some numbness in one finger after she had shingles.