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01-18-2023, 05:15 PM | #35657 | |
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01-18-2023, 11:15 PM | #35658 | |
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Hitch, my brother had shingles and still got the Shingrix vaccines. So his doctor thought it was still worthwhile. Double, triple check whether the new vaccine won’t still give you some benefit? |
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01-19-2023, 02:07 AM | #35660 | |
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And unfortunately, stress-triggered "victims" are in groups that are most likely to reoccur, apparently. So I will ask about the vaccine. I'll pay it if she says it's a good idea. (Most people only have one bad episode in their lives, apparently. But not some lucky winners, especially those who have had severe onsets and continue to have stress. Lucky me! How anybody figures that someone gets severe Shingles would NOT be massively stressed, effed if I know.) Hitch |
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01-19-2023, 02:32 AM | #35661 | |
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--- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...e/faq-20057859 So it looks like it's not too late to get the vaccine to (probably) prevent a reoccurrence. And thanks for your post - in the UK the NHS offer shingles vaccination when you're 70, but since I have some time to go until then, I'm looking into getting it privately. |
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01-19-2023, 04:30 AM | #35662 | |
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01-19-2023, 05:31 AM | #35663 |
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Checking Spain situation , I see they have began to recommend it for people 65 years old, and I guess that it will advance to older people (reading recommendations, I see it), but it will take time.
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01-19-2023, 05:33 AM | #35664 |
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I think my province began covering it a few years ago. Alas, only for those of a certain age.
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01-19-2023, 07:21 AM | #35665 |
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You absolutely can get Shingles again. As a child, my brother had chicken pox and then Shingles. He had a reoccurance of Shingles just a few years ago, nearly 50 years later. Thankfully mild.
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01-19-2023, 07:45 AM | #35666 | |
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My operating assumption is that I will absolutely get it again. I'm not willing to wishful-think otherwise, at this point. The bloody things (ha) have started to blister--I must have had this longer than I knew--and OMG. Hitch |
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Do you plan on getting the Shingrix shots?
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If indeed I do learn officially that the Shingrix shots will help me from recurrence, (which I agree seems to be the case) you effing betcha. I never, never, never want to experience this again and I'm not willing to bet, again, that a) I'll never reoccur, or b) that some reoccurrence would be weaker, less awful than what I have right now. I rolled the dice once--which was mind-boggling stupid--and I'm not going to do it again.
Honestly? I don't care if the bloody things are a thou apiece, at this point. My ambulance ride is probably going to cost me that and only god knows what all the hospital ER tests will run me post-insurance. Hitch |
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I never thought my insurance was the greatest, but it does cover pretty much any and all immunizations. I hit it pretty hard last year: Tetanus, multiple covid, flu, shingles, and hep b -- all covered. My sister's insurance didn't cover Shingrix so she paid $300+ for each of the two doses. Happily paid, I might add.
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01-19-2023, 10:26 AM | #35670 |
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I had shingles the first time when I was 46. The pain was so excruciating that not even morphine touched it. I had nerve pain for several years after, the worst in the first year. Then I got it a second time a few years ago, not quite so bad. Hydrocodone provided relief. I paid $200 for each Shingrex shot and consider it a bargain.
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