Posted on 02/14/2019 4:00:48 PM PST by tkocur
Shingles is the result of exposure to the chickenpox virus.
You either get the chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine. Both involve the live virus. So the chickenpox vaccine does NOT prevent shingles. Ask me how I know that...kiddo in my children’s sunday school missed several weeks of school, at age 7, with a GIANT shingles outbreak on her stomach.
If you didn’t develop titres after multiple vaccinations, I am not certain that the actual diseases would cause immunity, either. But those diseases could be very dangerous for you. Mandatory vaccination is to protect people who don’t develop immunity or who can’t be immunized.
The current version of shingles vaccine requires two shots, but because of the scarcity of it, they are giving priority to those that have already had the first of the two shots. Not sure of the cost but as painful as the disease is, I’m definitely going to get it regardless.
Your post because of your FR name is awesome!
I guess I’ve been lucky. I don’t have anesthesia: I just listen to music and do labor breathing while the nurse pats my hand.
I’m on a waitlist at Kroger. My mother had a horrible shingles attack.
Even after my wife’s death from late-diagnosed cancer I would never go in for the big “C” on voluntary terms. Only way they could subject me to that would be to sneak it while I was already highly sedated, like they did with an upper GI one time. And thanks for your earlier condolences on my wife. Four kids from 11-16 are still living with me and doing fine thanks to one of Martha’s friends who stops in frequently and does the grandmotherly thing.
Maybe they’ll get the supply up to meet the demand soon. Or maybe shortages are localized; I’ll talk to my GP. My husband claims he never had the chicken pox as a child, and he didn’t catch it when our oldest daughter had it in 1993. He’s German, so I make jokes about the Master Race which would probably get me arrested if anyone overheard.
It’s likely a family thing wrt vaccinations.
My dad had 4 smallpox vaccines when he was in bootcamp. none of them took. army protocol was vax till it took. Fortunately he ran across an MD who wrote in his report ‘if it hadn’t worked by now it won’t work’ and recommended he not be stationed in any country with endemic smallpox. otherwise dad would have been stuck in an endless ‘if, then, else’ loop LOL.
Dad survived all the MMR diseases just fine though.
Since the Wife is not a Trump Aide, why is Trump mentioned in the Headline?
It’s OK, we already know.
Well I itched like a bytch, wore dark glasses in a darkened room and had to lie flat on my back for what seemed like an eternity which for a hyperactive kid was hell on earth......but my kids and grands didn’t so Mrs. Shine just shut the hell up. We’ve just about wiped out all of these childhood diseases but now with the immigrants, some are coming back and the last time I heard, a certain kind of measles strain can cause pregnant women to have afflicted children.......remember Gene Tierney?
I think if all the stars are aligned you can develop cancer as a result of vaccination. If a tumor is in its infancy, a challenge to the immune system can divert resources it needs to destroy that tumor, thus allowing it to get a toehold in your system.
YOu don’t really know if you’ve been lucky. Just that nothing diagnosable like HIV or Hepatitis was involved. It’s thought that colon cancer involves microbiome dysbiosis.
Just hope the guy using the scope before you doesn’t weigh 600lbs. You might weigh 600lbs next year...
Or the lady before you is diagnosed with colon cancer.
Either Shingrix or Zostavax® can be used if you are over 60. There is no shortage of the latter one, the older vaccine, to the best of my knowledge. Some people have had both over time.
Measles was NEVER a catastrophy.
Excuse me? As I stated in another post, a certain strain of measles (German I think) caused birth defects to the babies of pregnant if they were exposed.......like Gene Tierney?
You’re welcome, Steve. I think of you and your family often and remember you in my prayers. I’m sure it’s lively with a group of children that age. My pack-of-wolves boys are 17, 15, 13, and 9 now. Patrick, the oldest, is being aggressively recruited by universities, although not yet with enough financial aid for him to go away. And my Elen is in the Marine Corps!
I got my first colonoscopy at 40 after a fellow Girl Scout leader and a man from my church died from colon cancer in their early 40s. Both left young children, and both were diagnosed too late to have much hope of surviving. Frank was still nursing when I went the first time, which is why I didn’t have anesthesia. Dr. Zeydman said, “If you’ve been through labor nine times, it will be nothing,” and he was right. Labor breathing can get you through anything but dental work, because you can’t breathe in your nose and out your mouth while they’re drilling your teeth!
“Measles” is one disease, and “German measles,” technically “rubella,” is another. The birth defects or miscarriages (the plot of “The Mirror Crack’d”) were from rubella.
I got that. My Hub is still waiting for his. He’s a transplant patient and the docs haven’t given him the green light yet........sigh
It’s been over three years since my last colonoscopy, so if I were going to hit 600 lbs., I’d have noticed by now. (I was back to my WW goal of 135 on Tuesday, having cut back on the wine and pretzels.)
Does “labor breathing” work on boys? Lol
Today, Valentines’s Day, is predictably a little hard on me. My medication management ARNP just quit, too. Drat!
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