Vaccinations
 

This past week for the very first time in my adult life I took a flu shot . In 2 weeks I will be taking my first ever pneumonia shot .

I'm sure that most people take these shots regularly .I am wondering if you have taken the shingles shot ?

My internist believes that every adult over the age of 60 should take same.

I've been getting a flu shot every year for some time.


Last year I had both the pneumonia and shingles shots.


If you got shingles (I know people who have) you'd be wishing you had got the shot. Very painful... the shingles... not the shot.

I had the pneumonia shot several years back, this year I got the shingles shot...I always get a flu shot. Remember these?

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I also get the flu shot every year and i did get a pneumonia and shingle shots.

TM

Vaccinations
 

I get flu shots yearly and have had a pneumonia shot in the past couple of years. I am due for the shingles shot, but waiting for proper timing. I get infusions for RA, so it must be timed in between infusions.

My DH gets yearly flu shots and recently had the shingles shot. He was recommended by our doctor to get shingles at 50 (he is 54) and, amazingly, the insurance covered it!

As a nurse, I have been getting the flu shot for the last 30 years. Required from some of my employers UNLESS you have a religious or medical reason (allergy to any of the ingredients in the vaccine). I'm not old enough to get the pneumo vax or the shingles vax. But, I have taken care of patients who have had the shingles who were in extreme pain....crying and screaming at the pain. If you can prevent yourself from getting the shingles, do whatever you can to do it!

I get a flu shot each year and had the pneumonia vaccine a number of years ago. About fifteen years ago, when I was a "healthy guy", I had shingles. It hurts like hell. Ecyclovir, Denavir, Dermboro and oxycontin were my friends. It put me out of work for over a week. I highly recommend the shingles vaccine for anyone who doesn't have an allergy to it. It's something you don't want to catch. I had pain for over a year but it wasn't severe.

BTW: If you have never had chicken pox you will not get shingles and do not need the vaccine. Also, the vaccine is only about 60% effective. That means that if you do get the vaccine you still have a 40% chance of getting shingles.

It is also "possible" to get shingles from the shingles vaccine.

Take care,
Mike

Question
 

My wife is an RN .Her question is whether you are injected with a dead or a live virus for shingles ?

It is a live vaccine. That is why it is "possible" to get shingles from the vaccine, especially if you are immune compromised. i.e. Chemotherapy, autoimmune disease, on immune suppressing medication such as prednisone.

Take care,
Mike

I had a flu shot about 17 years ago, and had a terrible reaction to it. I am not old enough for the shingles shot. I have been very lucky with illiness. I haven't had the flu in years.

Yes Trip, I have one of those on my arm.

I've had the pneumonia vaccine and I have to say: It didn't work.

Take care,
Mike (Hacking away as I type this)

The only time I have gotten the flue in the past 20 years was the one time I got a flu shot!