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On 8/30/2025 at 9:42 AM, Willfully Horn said:

I haven’t agreed to shingles vax yet. My younger brother claims his shingles vax resulted n tinnitus. He had suffered through shingles once, though, while I have not. Probably will get one, and will probably learn what a vaccine kicking one’s ass is all about as I’ve never had ill effects from any vaccine.

I took 1 shingle vax (it's 2 doses, shingrex) and it floored me.

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27 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If shingles didn’t wreck most people, there wouldn’t be a market for a vaccine that is so rough. 

Other than a sure left arm for three days, it was a breeze compared to what I expected.  But that was the first one.

What is the Surly consensus on the second shot versus the first shot?

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28 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If shingles didn’t wreck most people, there wouldn’t be a market for a vaccine that is so rough. 

I was told by my physician that the Shingrex vaccine is the most effective vaccine there is. 

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

Other than a sure left arm for three days, it was a breeze compared to what I expected.  But that was the first one.

What is the Surly consensus on the second shot versus the first shot?

My second shot was worse than the first.  Better than shingles, though.

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4 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

My second shot was worse than the first.  Better than shingles, though.

I guess that makes sense, as your immune system got amped up on the first shot to look out for what was coming in the second shot.

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1 minute ago, texasdago said:

OK... so on Shingrex... should anyone over 50 get it or just someone who had Chickenpox?  I keep reading both sides and I'm still not clear.  

I think if you can be sure you have never had chickenpox, the chickenpox vaccine is what you would take.  Blood draw would be the way to be sure. 

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22 minutes ago, texasdago said:

OK... so on Shingrex... should anyone over 50 get it or just someone who had Chickenpox?  I keep reading both sides and I'm still not clear.  

I asked my GP this question last year just to be sure (I never had chickenpox and then got the vaccine in my 20s). He said I didn't need the Shingles vaccine.

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12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I wonder how much the pharmacist’s wife paid the doctor to tell him that his burning privates was “shingles”.

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Thread Tangent warning:

About a decade ago I got poison oak all over my man parts from carelessly pissing with my work gloves on during a battle with an unkept corner of our property...   Thw wife was NOT buying what I was selling when I spent the first evening relentlessly itching my balls.  Total agony for a week.

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2 hours ago, Deej said:

I was told by my physician that the Shingrex vaccine is the most effective vaccine there is. 

that's good news. it was prescribed to me but since I am under 50, I couldn't find a pharmacy to administer it (I have fixed that part - now to get a new scrip). I had both chickenpox and a mild case of shingles in my 30's, so I am motivated to get it. even the "mild" case was hell. 

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4 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

that's good news. it was prescribed to me but since I am under 50, I couldn't find a pharmacy to administer it (I have fixed that part - now to get a new scrip). I had both chickenpox and a mild case of shingles in my 30's, so I am motivated to get it. even the "mild" case was hell. 

Genuine question, if you already had a mild case would you already have some protection against future shingles infection?  I mean, was that effectively like you already had a vaccine from an immunity standpoint?  Isn't the shingles vax intended to be once and not repeated every few years?

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21 minutes ago, Skipper said:

Genuine question, if you already had a mild case would you already have some protection against future shingles infection?  I mean, was that effectively like you already had a vaccine from an immunity standpoint?  Isn't the shingles vax intended to be once and not repeated every few years?

Possibly, but I'm not equipped to answer that. I'm not at all against taking a vaccine if it's fairly certain I won't have to experience that again - and I'm guessing the next one won't be so mild

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So as far as I can tell, 20 years ago I got the first of two chicken pox vaccines, but didn’t get the second shot after I broke out with a few spots. But when the doctor did a blood test I didn’t have the chicken pox marker. So now I’m wondering whether I should just take the chicken pox vaccine again. 

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Genuine question, if you already had a mild case would you already have some protection against future shingles infection?  I mean, was that effectively like you already had a vaccine from an immunity standpoint?  Isn't the shingles vax intended to be once and not repeated every few years?

I had shingles 25 years ago. Just turned 50 last year. My pharmacist wife told me I needed the shot at my age, despite having shingles previously. I didn’t ask why. I just took her advice. She’s a lot smarter than I am and my life insurance policy is not very large (intentionally). She needs me alive.

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