For anyone who has had chicken pox, are you taking the shingles vaccine?!
Question: I've seen firsthand the pain and mysery that comes from shingles, so I'm hoping everyone will take the vaccine.
Answers: I've seen firsthand the pain and mysery that comes from shingles, so I'm hoping everyone will take the vaccine.
I found this fact sheet on the internet:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/dow...
Will it make me sick? Just curious...if it will make me more sick and in pain than with shingles.
EDIT: just saw what the cdc site says about it, and I can't get it. Guess that's why my doctor never told me about it.
I don't know about that. Last year on New Years eve, I got a very bad case of Shingles on my butt. When I went to the emergency room the doctor gave me a prescription which I took. I did a follow up with my regular doctor but he did not say anything about a vaccine.
Around June of this year, I got what I thought was an ant bite in the same spot. I didn't do anything about it cause it isn't the same as last year. But, now, it has spread a little and itches like heck. It keeps me awake some nights.
Odd, how it is acting up almost a year later. But, I will go to the doctor and see what he says.
I've had the shingles 3 times in the last decade and I'm only 56.
I would LOVE to be vaccinated, but my insurance doesn't cover it and it's very expensive.