I’m considering the Shingles vaccine. Yay, or Nay, and why?

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Really lucky here. Immune to chicken pox so will not get shingles 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼😁

@ann_perkowski @sgee4me um... and please don't read into this here- but while it may be related to chickenpox, it's closer to herpes than chickenpox. talk to a doc- let the guys with letters after their names give you better advice than a twitter-rando

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Family member had it on his penis and rectum and the surrounding area and couldn't take anything because of a prior opioid addiction.

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@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Talked me into it.

@B_Dean_ @sgee4me y'ever get a bad sunburn? multiply that by a factor of 10-1,000 depending on the location and severity of the outbreak, then scrub it with a wire brush. for weeks, if not months or years. ...then imagine it in your eye, which is a common location

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Great answer!

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me I second this. Got it over the summer at age 38. Worst. Pain. Ever. Mainly because *NOTHING* helped & it lasted for 10 days straight. Way worse than the bone marrow biopsy I had done without sedation. And I was on vacation 9 hours away when it happened too. 😑

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me I had shingles and it hurt nonstop for five months. Get the vaccine.

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me If you have had shingles, do u still need to be vaxxed? I don’t need to relive that agony, worst pain of my life and I spent 32 hours in labor with no meds.

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Exactly why I got the first of the two-part long-term shingles vaccine earlier this week. It was a rough vax, but it was nothing compared to the agony that shingles inflicted upon my mother.

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Any thoughts on scheduling shingles vax around the Covid booster? Same time, weeks apart, month??

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me If I had a case of actual chicken pox as a child (there was no vaccine available at that time), am I statistically MORE likely to get shingles, as opposed to someone who has been vaccinated? Does anybody know or have a study for this? It's such a horrific disease😢

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Sounds about right .

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Yes!!! Because I knew a woman who got Shingles on her vagina. I’ve had 2 bouts and can’t imagine that horror.

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me I was sick for three days with each shot. But better that than shingles!

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Thank you, I came to say something similar. While shingles might not be fatal, it is incredibly painful and can last awhile. I haven’t had it, but I know several who did and wished there had been a vaccine made available at the time.

@AlacritysWhatev @sgee4me Almost killed me. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks and they told my parents I was not going to make it.