A question about shingles (The Disease)

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Please see the recent thread about one of our posters and their severe pain (@BippityBoppityBoo provided good information there as well).

So I Have Shingles

I’m 53. My doctor told me, when I turned 50, that I should consider the singles vaccine if I had chicken pox as a child. The thing is, I didn’t know if I actually had chicken pox (I do now, of course), and Mamahomie didn’t either. The pharmacist told me to get it anyway, as the worst it could do is nothing. But I kept putting it off. Big mistake. I think we caught it early enough that antivirals will help and this won’t last a month, like it can when it’s untreated. I’m taking Acyclovir as pre…

I mean, I’m concerned enough that I got the Shingrix vaxx despite blood work a few years ago that indicated I hadn’t ever had chickenpox, and therefore got the Chickenpox vaccine. If said bloodwork is correct, I’m not going to ever develop shingles (well, unless I get a direct exposure to the virus and the vaccine fails (it does have a reported 92% efficacy overall) and I still took the precaution just in case the bloodwork was wrong.

I felt moderately bad for 48-72 hours both shots. Worth it.