Shingles is a terrible experience at 38, but wait until he’s around 50+. That is life changing pain.
I had the weirdest experience with shingles in my 30s. It didn’t hurt. It itched and was uncomfortable, but not painful. Doc said it’s unusual but not uncommon.
But just because it didn’t hurt me doesn’t mean I go around telling people shingles isn’t so bad and people shouldn’t get vaccinated.
I had the same and a terrible headache, my doctor said it was “shingles light”. The headache alone made me throw up a few times.
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So sorry you had to go through that. Side effects of the vaccine are pretty much always preferred Vs the actual illness.
My friends father was the kind who declined vaccines but begged the doctor for medications when he got shingles. He eventually got the vaccine but described the pain as someone holding a hot iron against your face…for months.
I hear now that they treat with antivirals it is not as intense. Usually.
If they get there in time, the pain lingers
my understanding is that instead of having an outbreak for a month, you have an outbreak for a couple weeks instead. and it still hurts like hell, just not as long. as far as pain lingering, i’m at eight years and yeah it’s still there so couldn’t tell you.
I’m so sorry
I got a bunch of different jabs. I’m still alive and kicking. No need to avoid vaccines.
You probably just built up an immunity to autism/5G/whatever else they think vaccines are gonna give you except resistance to disease.
Uhh shingles keep coming back. I wish I had the chicken pox vaccine honestly, but it didn’t exist when I was a kid
Guess which kids don’t experience chicken pox anymore? All of them that get the vaccine.
You can still get the shingles vaccine usually around age 50.
Now watch as they unironically agree with this.
I was gonna say, that isn’t going to be the gotcha they think it is. Definitely the kind of opinion an anti-vaxxer would hold.
Chickenpox at 16 left scars all over my body that I still have at 54. Of all the crazy shit I’ve been through in life, I have never been more miserable than those two weeks, and rarely as scared for my health. I remember going out to the garage and popping water blisters that hadn’t been there 5 minutes earlier, and they kept coming and coming.
Scared shitless of shingles. I think I need a third vaccination?
And now he’s immune to getting hit by cars. They just bounce right off of him.
Everyone should get hit by a car once in their life so they are immune to getting hit by a car
I got shingles at 40 and it was terrible. They don’t vaccinate people who are that “young” for shingles here. I was sick for weeks, it was brought on by stress from a surgery I had removing a tumor (luckily lab test confirmed not cancer). I was recovering from the surgery and the shingles hit my face. I had immense pain and high fever for weeks. The doctors did what they could, but set me down for the talk. I was most likely going to lose at least one eye and might lose both, I should prepare to go blind and be disabled for the rest of my life.
Turns out in my misfortune I was actually lucky, I didn’t end up losing an eye. My vision in one eye did degrade a little bit, but it was at above 130% of perfect before (probably even better, but they don’t bother testing beyond that). The right eye had issues for a bit, but in the end returned back to perfect vision. In my experience worse than it was, but still very good.
So imagine me laying in bed, super high fever, worst pain I’ve felt in my life and all the while waiting for the lab results to figure out if the tumor they removed was actually cancer. I might go blind and I might have cancer. Worst few weeks of my life right there.
Afterwards I was a lot better, but still had terrible nerve pains. It started as a tingle where I had scarring from the shingles blisters, then intensify into full pain. Over the years it has gotten better, sometimes it gets irritated or hurts a bit, but mostly it’s fine. I wouldn’t wish shingles on my worst enemy, that shit is hell.
Just grab the pan out of the oven with your bare hands
You know what makes campfires fun as fuck? Cheap leather welding gloves (they were 8 bucks when I got mine a decade ago). You can just pick up a burning log and move it, and if you do it right your hand doesn’t even heat up. Do it wrong and you have 2-3 seconds to drop the log and take the glove off before the heat propagates to the inner layer of the glove.
I fucking wish I could get the damn vaccine. I don’t have the spare money. Shingles suck. I only had them on about 10% of my body and I’m still waiting for them to stop hurting almost a decade later.
