I had the shingles 30 years ago while in the Navy. Today I see that vaccinations for it are available and, as you stated, they can give medication for it.
When I had the shingles it was very painful. I was stationed in southern Spain, it was over a 100 degrees in August/September, and I was under a great deal of stress in a new position. The situation was uncomfortable, to say the least.
Glad to see that there today exists some treatment for it.
I had the shingles shot a few months ago. I was talking to my 83 yr old mother about it and she said she’d had shingles when we were kids. She dealt with it and if I got it, I should just deal with it.
Insanity. You can lose your eyesight. You can have lingering nerve pain for years... I have enough things I have to deal with. I hope shingles won’t be one of them.
Heat and stress - two awful things to deal with when you have the shingles!