[Hildy]

I think if you HAD chicken pox as a child, you are more apt to get shingles later in life. Is that correct?

[EEGator]

Yep.

[nopardons]

You can ONLY get shingles IF you’ve had Chickenpox.

[kara37]

I think if you HAD chicken pox as a child, you are more apt to get shingles later in life. Is that correct?
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You are now. Shingles was pretty rare until the chicken pox vaccine. The older population was constantly re-exposed to chicken pox through children, grandchildren, ect. It was like getting a chicken pox booster, and that kept shingles away.

We are just not exposed very much anymore, so now they had to come up with another vaccine, which is really just a chicken pox booster.