re: Shingles Vaxx. What to do.

I agree with many posters here, shingles is brutal, and I would probably take 4 or 5 Covid cases over getting that. My first shot just had arm sorenesses, second one the same plus sluggishness that night, but woke up just fine. Glad I did it, and I didn’t even have to change my avatar to the Ukrainian flag.

I took the prevnar for pneumonia.

I had no choice. Kept getting pneumonia. I was AT RISK.


I Had Covid three times. Survived it.

At my annual physical in 5/2018, my doc talked me into it as he said he'd just given it to both of his parents. Did it at that appointment and within an hour it went from feeling like I gotten a shot in the arm to feeling like I had gotten shot in the arm, maybe 9mm. As the day went on, it "upgraded" to .45 ACP. The following afternoon, I started feeling feverish, weak, and generally unwell; it was really uncomfortable. Symptoms lasted 4 - 7 days.

The vaccine was in short supply at the time, such that it took me a year and a half to find a drug store with the vaccine in stock for the second shot. Repeat the original symptoms for about the same duration. The first shot was so bad and the vaccine became so hard to find that I nearly said screw it. Friends reminded me that shingles can be really bad, can recur, and can lead to blindness or hearing loss if it gets in you eyes or ears. That convinced me.

Silver lining for me, or so I've heard...a more severe reaction to vaccines in general means you have a strong immune system as the reaction you're experiencing (assuming it's not allergic) is you body's defenses/immune response rising for the fight.

As for me an vaccines, I had the typical childhood shots, the first two doses of COVID but planning not to get any boosters, and I've never had a flu shot.

YMMV, but the above is my experience. Questions/concerns are probably best addressed with your doctor.

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I've reached that age of the shingles vax but admittedly am worried about the side effects. Please share your experience.

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Shingles is f**king painful. Only a certified retard (FYI, most of the regular posters in threads about vaccine here are certified retards) would turn down something that reduces the chance of having to suffer through shingles pain.

Bite the bullet and endure as best as you can using traditional meds, noninflammatories and salves. You'll never second guess yourself.

AVOID THIS VAXX LIKE THE PLAGUE (which is what it is -- and likely "fortified".)

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FYI, most of the regular posters in threads about vaccine here are certified retards

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Sorry boss, didn't know I was posting in a mud blood circle jerk thread. Continue with your "muh anti-vaxxers are retards" coping mechanism.

The shingles vaccine (Shingrix) is mRNA

ETA: Never mind, I thought I had read somewhere it was. Apparently it’s the one they are working on now

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That’s simply not true

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I don't know. Just relaying what she told us.

i had light flu symptoms. get the vax, its a real vax not the covid bullshite.


you dont want shingles

Had the shingles in 1997 or so. Mostly around my waist so it wasn't too painful. Got a vaccine in 2005 and haven't experienced it again.