Pharmacist here. YOU DO NOT WANT SHINGLES. Get the vaccine. FDA is compromised.
Edit: Thank you for the award. The best reward will be knowing I prevented someone from getting this disease.
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Dry-Amphibian15 days ago
+128
Ask anyone that has had shingles what the experience is like. Can’t believe this vaccine is even controversial. Let em get shingles. They can wear it like a badge of honor
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Rat_Rat5 days ago
+3
Family member is legally blind in one eye due to shingles. Get the vaccine.
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bebopbrain5 days ago
+25
The shingles vaccine isn't fun. My doctor explained how he himself got the vaccine on his birthday, the first day it was recommended. I was like, yeah, gimme that, too.
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knobunc5 days ago
+34
The first dose is fine. The second can be rough for a day. But everyone who has had shingles and the vaccine say the vaccine is a walk in the park compared to shingles.
Also got the first dose on my birthday.
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mittenknittin5 days ago
+5
First one made me shivery 12 hours later and I just curled up under a pile of blankets and slept through the worst of it. Second was a breeze, just a sore arm. It's different for everybody.
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Sweaty_Assignment_905 days ago
+3
Depends, you feel a bit bad on one. My 1st got me, 2nd was a breeze.
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SkyThriving5 days ago
+3
Just got my first two weeks ago. Hopefully the second is like you said. This one hit me like a diesel locomotive. I am smart enough to know that if my body reacted so roughly to vaccine, the actual disease would be a horror.
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Sweaty_Assignment_905 days ago
+5
That is what my PA told me. One gets you, the other is fine
My neighbor had it, it looked like agony. He said he actually wanted to scratch his eye out it was so bad. No thanks.
I actuall know of a few anti vax people quietly took this one.
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alwayssunnyinskyrim5 days ago
+1
What age do they recommend it?
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bebopbrain5 days ago
+1
I believe it is 50yo.
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KathrynTheGreat5 days ago
+27
I'd love to get the vaccine! But I'm not 50 yet, so getting insurance to pay for it could be tricky.
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Oilpaintcha5 days ago
+4
Might be worth checking with your insurance to find out what their policy is. Your doctor’s office might be able to find out if you can’t find it on the insurance website.
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KathrynTheGreat5 days ago
+4
I'll check once I get my insurance back (in between jobs right now)
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nechronius5 days ago
+9
I got shingles 1.5 months before I was eligible for the vaccine. I was lucky enough to only get the common type that goes halfway around the torso, not some other rarer type like the one that can make you go blind. If you're close it might be worth talking to a professional about it.
It wasn't fun, wouldn't recommend.
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janosslyntsjowls5 days ago
+2
I'm immunosuppressed and insurance still won't pay. Good luck hope yours is better than mine o7
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lifting_cardio5 days ago
+16
I got the shingles at the fossilized age of 39. ON MY ASS !!!
You. Do. Not. Want. Shingles.
It can manifest literally anywhere!! And f*** I remember chicken pox sucking as a kid but this was so much very worse.
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Nameless_American5 days ago
+8
Yeah well it’d be nice if people below 55 or whatever were allowed to get it. Worst experience of my life and I just have to hope it never happens again over the next 11+ years before I am old enough for a vaccine.
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54fighting5 days ago
+7
Got it the first day I could. It’s Opposite Day when it comes to the FDA.
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crewserbattle5 days ago
+3
If I had the chicken pox vaccine as a kid do I still need the shingles vax?
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Oilpaintcha5 days ago
+8
It is still recommended to get it, though the chicken pox vaccine reduces the risk of shingles significantly.
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mittenknittin5 days ago
+6
The fact is...we don't know. People young enough to get the chicken pox vaccine aren't old enough yet to get the shingles vaccine. We're still watching the first generation of adults who for the most part didn't all get chicken pox as kids. I mean that's how it used to be, we ALL got it. And as it went around almost every year, we were getting reexposed all the time, and THAT'S something that's not happening now either, and there are theories that that's part of the reason we're seeing more cases of shingles in younger people than we used to, that our immune systems aren't getting reinforced to it. But anyway, it's going to take a little time to see if people who had the vaccine and never had a case of chicken pox can still get shingles later in life if they were exposed to the virus at some time. There's not enough data yet.
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crewserbattle5 days ago
+2
No one over the age of 50 had the chicken pox vaccine fwiw.
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Hrmerder5 days ago
+3
FDA has been compromised for a loooooong time... Also.. Thanks cap! I will go get the vaccination (didn't know there was one).
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Uturuncu4 days ago
+3
Upping as someone who had a comparatively tiny patch of shingles at age 18, _you do not want shingles, you do not want shingles, you do not want shingles_. If you can get the vaccine, get it, jesus christ, for a patch of skin around the area of a gatorade bottle lid, the pain was intense enough to drive me to the doctor in terror despite being 18, invincible, and uninsured.
Pushing 40 now, and the area of skin is still markedly different than it was before. Visibly it doesn't look scarred, but it's got a different texture to it, it grows head hair(not beard hair! Soft, fine, top of head hair! Despite being on my jawline!), and if someone touches it without warning, I have an automatic reaction to jerk away and clench up to protect it as if their hand was made of red hot metal. It's really hard to explain it, but there is no pain there now that it's healed, and touching it doesn't cause pain, but an unexpected touch there gets a reaction as if it was very painful before I've even consciously registered there was contact. So something's crossed in the nerves and skin there, somehow, and I'm really paranoid one day I'm gonna swing on someone just trying to take my temperature or something(some nurses at my doctor's place swipe across the forehead, temple to temple, then down past the ear to the corner of the jaw, and if they do that on the wrong side I can't promise I won't have a kneejerk fight response).
(I eagerly await the day I can get this damn vaccine without having to pay out of pocket, I do not EVER want this again, and I'll take unpleasant vaccine side effects ten times over to avoid the absolute Hell that was shingles. Especially since my initial outbreak point is on my face, since you can get shingles in your fuckin' eyes and go blind from it. Every time vaccination comes up at an appointment I give a big ol' smile and go "Shingles~?" and they go 'No you're too young insurance won't cover it, even with prior infection', and I pout.)
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06_TBSS5 days ago
+2
I got shingles at the age of 39. It was horrible and my case wasn't even that bad compared to others I've seen. That said, I still can't get the vaccine until I'm 50. I'm just hoping I don't have another outbreak before then.
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ImpulsE695 days ago
+2
I apparently had it on my face during COVID. The worst pain I've ever experienced behind my eye. The ER doc I went to had no idea what it was and refused to give me pain meds. I turned to weed (which I don't like and don't do) to try to kill the pain some. Worst 3 weeks of my life. Didn't know it might have been shingles until it started popping up here recently with all the people posting pics of their faces. Fortunately, it didn't seem to do any damage, but I am scared as hell that I will get it again.
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PrestigiousSeat765 days ago
+210
Right-wing corruption strikes again.
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LowerRhubarb5 days ago
+15
You still know what they're going to do. Just imagine the most greedy, degenerate and morally bankrupt behavior possible, and they'll do ten times worse than that every time.
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No-Shopping-44345 days ago
+5
It’s greedy at the top of the pyramid and dumb at the bottom
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Show_Me_Your_Cubes5 days ago
+1
It's a weird twist; basically Trump goons got off on not getting vaccines since it pissed off the libs, so trump 2.0 made it part of their platform to take advantage of that mindset.
you KNOW trump himself has all of the vaccines.
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bigredthesnorer5 days ago
+8
Right wing fear
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GetsBetterAfterAFew5 days ago
+97
Remember when the right wing fascists were complaining that Bidens administration was modifying information because they asked Twitter to remove Hunter Bidens illegally obtained d*** pics from their app? Years theae people whining about the federal govt destroying the truth?
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dabeeman5 days ago
+34
it always is and has always been projection
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NoMayoForReal5 days ago
+30
Be a shame if they all got shingles in their eyes.
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alwayssunnyinskyrim5 days ago
+1
Don’t be silly, they’re all vaccinated. They just think *you* should suffer.
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Glait5 days ago
+26
What makes it even more ridiculous is that there are some studies recently showing that shingles vaccine may significantly lower the risk of developing dementia and slow it's progression.
So much research lately showing additional benefits of vaccination especially in the 65 plus population. We should be pushing for increased vaccination rates.
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Nayko2145 days ago
+67
Not surprising considering they’re run by anti vax morons who don’t know how anything works and don’t care.
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tomgratz5 days ago
+18
Keeping health and medical information from the public is a Nazi move. Disgusting !
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fox-mcleod5 days ago
+18
I fear we wouldn’t have the guts to do what needs to be done even if we get the fascists out.
This entire era needs to be declared illegitimate and treated as an occupation — even if just to make it possible to do science at a federal level again.
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Finchypoo5 days ago
+30
Remember when the FDA looked out for us.....yeah that was nice.
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dontrike5 days ago
+10
It's like that time flat earthers paid for studies to make sure that the Earth was flat, but in doing so only prove themselves wrong multiple times. In this case we had a pedophile and Dr Worm decide not to put this information out because that would make them look stupid.
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DeadJango5 days ago
+3
Well of course they had to block it. The dumb dumbs started with the data and drew conclusions. You have to start with the answer you want and work your way back. It's the GOP way.
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Euphoric_Anxiety_1625 days ago
+3
What is for the good of the American ppl is a lower priority than what makes trump look less like he's correct. 🤬
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MsMoreCowbell8285 days ago
+3
Got the shingles vaccines when I was 57- no way was I going to go through shingles after the pain was described to me. I can't grasp how anyone doesn't! Get the shots ppl!
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monkeypickle5 days ago
+4
Like being stabbed by an ice pick over and over and over and over again.
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Stigma-Key5 days ago
-2
I ended up getting shingles but was extremely lucky with it. It looked terrible but in terms of pain there was very little, just itchiness.
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MsMoreCowbell8285 days ago
+2
You are like, the only one who got off easy, lol!
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Stigma-Key5 days ago
+1
I was truely lucky with it. The area on my leg that was affected is still often itchy and is discoloured for the scarring. Price im will to pay considering how painful they are for most folks
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MartyMacGyver5 days ago
+2
I'd wish shingles on RFK but he is already shingles manifest!
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scenr05 days ago
+2
They'll be coming for tetanus next!
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Previous-Narwhal-9925 days ago
+1
Boggles the mind that these fantastic preventative tools are being suppressed. I can't see the financial motive. And the rank and file conspiracy nuts in the public won't take them anyway. So why go through the trouble of hiding research? It's insane. And this taking place at an institution filled with highly trained people devoted to the scientific method. They must want to riot on a daily basis
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Addy_Rose3 days ago
+1
See I don't get it...like obviously big companies have massive influence in US politics. Are the pharmaceutical companies just...not playing the game right?
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_Soup_R_Man_5 days ago
+1
Covid trial data is locked up for 70 years.
For 70 years they will not make it public!!!!!
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