2nd shingles vaccine dose

[Lionheart]

Shingles vaccine is quite different from the Covid vaccine.

How so? And I thought the best way to be immunized from something was to actually get the virus and when recovered your body had a built-in natural immunity?

 

[DadWil]

How so? And I thought the best way to be immunized from something was to actually get the virus and when recovered your body had a built-in natural immunity?

Only works IF you recover. If you don't it was nice to have met you.

 

[Jason Snyder]

I had the two shot series. I’m not sure which one was worse. The first one was terrible but I also got my flu shot and Covid booster at the same time. The second one was also terrible. Glad they are done.

 

[Lionheart]

Only works IF you recover. If you don't it was nice to have met you.

What is the recovery rate from the shingles? Are you saying shingles is killing people?
Or are you referring to COVID here?

 

[Jason Snyder]

My grandpa got shingles. He said they were absolutely miserable.

 

[bhovda]

I had a little bout of shingles in my early /mid 30s. Smaller circle on my left side. I don't remember how painful it was now. But after reading some of this I might look into the vaccine .

 

[North of 60]

I'm posting on this because a friend of mine died from the Delta variant of Covid. Possibly incidental to that is he had refused the Covid vaccine after having a bad reaction to the first dose of shingles vaccine a year or so earlier.

The reality is most vaccines are good for most people and vaccines have prevented much misery compared to eons of human history before.

On the other hand, adverse reaction responses to vaccines do occur and vary both by specific vaccine, and person to person. Some of us are the unlucky few per million who have had very severe adverse reactions to a vaccine.

If anyone is unsure about taking any vaccine, before deciding consider getting medical advice from a physician who has actually treated patients who have had severe adverse reactions to a vaccine. The challenge to that is not many physicians have...simply because it is such a rare occurrence.