Bingo. Question is will Medicare/Tricare cover the vaccination?
I Don’t want to go through another bout.
Good question. As I understand it, the Shingles vaccine is the same as the children’s Varicella (chicken pox) vaccine (although probably a different concentration).
I’ve seen a lot of patients with Shingles, and rarely, you will get one that has the post-herpetic neuralgia-very miserable. The acute illness is no walk in the park either. I also know of a teen who was immunosuppressed for a systemic Rheumatologic disease, and had shingles to her perineum/labia. She was hospitalized and on a morphine drip.
I had Shingles once, but they didn’t blister. Burning pain on my upper back on the left side. It must have been mild, because it was more of an annoyance (although I have a high threshold and tolerance for pain).
Unfortunately, I can’t get the vaccine, because it’s a live virus vaccine, and I had a transplant.