Get Your Vaccines | TheaterFire

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banksy_h8r@reddit

what's the mechanism?

hordaak2@reddit

Wow that aint cheap!!! Im surprised they dont give it to you as the care you'll need if you got it is probably alot more expensive!!!

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Starbreiz@reddit

Yeah welcome to how stupid US Healthcare is.

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Personal_Secret_234@reddit

Ditch uhc and get a different carrier!

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Starbreiz@reddit

How would I do that? In the US, health insurance is tied to employment. I couldn't afford the plan on my own.

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IKnowAllSeven@reddit

If you want the vaccine, still ask the pharmacist. I found out that my asthma counts as a pre existing condition, and because of that I can get the vaccine before age 50.

Komaisnotsalty@reddit

If you've never had chickenpox, do you need to get it?

I know very little about it, but thought that if you're immune to chickenpox, you can't get shingles.

Is that true?

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Pristine-Lawyer-3260@reddit

Get the damned vaccine!

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

Chill, bud. I had it quite awhile ago. I asked a question, not plot the downfall of the planet.

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Pristine-Lawyer-3260@reddit

Dude, we just worry about you, that's all ... :)

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Sweaty-Blacksmith572@reddit

When you get chicken pox, the symptoms go away, but the virus lives in you forever. (It’s called Varicella zoster virus, or VZV.) Shingles is just the chicken pox virus reactivating and causing symptoms again. So you are correct- if you’ve truly never been infected with the Varicella zoster virus, then you won’t have shingles. Can’t have a virus reactivate if the virus isn’t even in you!

However, you should still look into vaccination and talk to your doctor. It could be you did have chickenpox as a child; sometimes symptoms are mild or are mistaken for something else, or the illness was forgotten. Your doctor may want to test, and if it turns out you did have chickenpox, they will likely recommend that you get the shingles vaccine. But, if you really never had chickenpox, your doctor will likely recommend that you get the chickenpox vaccine, because you could get it as an adult, and the shingles vaccine, although it prevents reactivating of VZV in someone who already has it, will not prevent you from getting an initial infection of VZV. Or did you mean you already got the chickenpox vaccine, and that’s why you never caught the chickenpox? Is that what you meant when you referred to being “immune to chickenpox”?

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Komaisnotsalty@reddit

What I meant:

I nwver got chickenpox as a kid, despite the good ole chickenpox parties of the '70s.

Oh well, if hospitalization or death and not severe discomfort and potential permanent disability is your calculus, then by all means don’t get your fucking vaccine.

This is a do not dumb zone. Please stop dumbing here.

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Practical_Wind_1917@reddit

I bet you believed Covid wasn’t real too

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Go to the doctor? Of course. I am in the medical field. I went to primary care and they prescribed me valtrex. No relief. Then I went to a neurologist and got three MRI scans of my brain. All good. Ophthalmologist. No shit in eyes. Good to go. ENT? Good to go.

400mg of motrin erases the pain for 7 hours then I get home and eat a 10mg gummy.

Get your vaccine.

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Ok-Limit-9726@reddit

Mother in law got shingles in her right eye (boomer) and it practically blinded her.

Plus she was on ‘hillbilly heroine’ for months, needs help walking now.

Yeah, the doc walked in the room and said you have shingles. I didn't even get to say much before that. The first script he wrote was for Dilaudid, which was funny to me, because I'm here to see you for a head ache...

The second time I got shingles - in the same place, I knew what it was. The first day, it was hot and sore. None of the shooting pains, though when I think back, I had complained of increased pain a day or two prior, from the PHN I was still suffering. I was also on a boat load of gabapentin, so what I'm actually feeling is very very muted. It still hurt like mad. I was in a foreign country, and knew I needed treatment.

I now carry a course of valtex on me when I travel, just in case.

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RUN_DMT_@reddit

You’re lucky they gave you good pain meds! That was not my experience 😭

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Reddisuspendmeagain@reddit

I’m sorry that happened to you. I can’t imagine the pain. And no one thinks it could be Shingles in your ear. So glad I got the Shingles and pneumonia vaccines.

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Gulfhammockfisherman@reddit

Damn, that absolutely sucks.

Bad enough that you need hearing aids? The good news is a lot of Gen X needs them anyway

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I had shingles in 2019, and I still get pain. There is one particular spot on my scalp that is sore to the touch all the time. Sometimes it's so much worse than sore. It's a burning feeling. My doctor said any pain after 18 months is permanent.

It's about the size of a dime, I think. It's in the back so I can't be sure. All the hair came out there when the rash scabbed over.

I'll ask my doctor about getting the vaccine! I remember reading that the younger you have it the first time increases your chances of getting it again. 🤬

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miata90na@reddit

Jesus. I'm sorry you're suffering that :(

Great - new fear unlocked!

I haven't planned on the shingles shot since I had such a mild case of chicken pox. I was convinced the school nurse was conspiring with my mom (also a nurse) to keep me from trick-or-treating. I literally had like 3 pocks, no fever or other symptoms, but I did get a week vacation from school.

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Own_Celebration5462@reddit

Haha, conspiring to keep you from trick or treating. Kids are funny. I had a mild case as well, but still got the shingles shots. A mild case can still be reactivated as shingles. My sister and brother in law both got shingles, and it was no joke.

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LisaLisaPrintJam@reddit

Yeah, I should have been a comedian 😄 You're right, the severity doesn't matter, and I've been counting on my luck (never sick until Covid knocked me down in the pre-vaccine days). I also understand there's a genetic component, and the most unhealthy health skeptics sharing my DNA haven't had shingles.

It varies by insurance provider, but it’s typically 50 in the USA. How much does it cost out of pocket for you?

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sabrinajestar@reddit

I had chicken pox at 34. The doctor didn't believe at first that's what I had. I don't remember what he gave me, but I spent most of the next three days sleeping, and glad for it, because being awake was hell.

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Good_Grief_CB@reddit

Shingles in the eye???? FFS can’t I just relax on my sure predisposed route to a heart attack and not worry about everything else?

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Fight_Tyrnny@reddit

thanks for a reminder, Im 52 now and still need it. Ive only been to the doctor like once in the past 15 years so I should probably get going eh?

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Last_Pick_2169@reddit

Please

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Ok-Limit-9726@reddit

Had flu shot yesterday,

Booking covid next week,

And second shingles !

Just had shocking new respiratory infection going around in east coast Australia 🇦🇺! 2 weeks raspy chest! Negative covid, rsv, influenza A/B

The reason to get the vaccine is NOT to have an attack of the shingles. If I can still get it it defeats the purpose of the jab.

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ActionCalhoun@reddit

It’s much less likely to get it and it much less worse if you do but it is still possible. Like how getting the flu shot or the Covid shot doesn’t guarantee you’ll never get those, it builds up your resistance.

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adashiel@reddit

I had a nurse told me of her experience with shingles. It got in her eye, traveled up her optic nerve and gave her a stroke. I was in the hospital at the time recovering from a stroke. I got Shingrix double quick.

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mjh8212@reddit (OP)

He had an eye stroke back in November the Dr thinks it was a contributing cause. It can’t be detected unless flaring which is scary.

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silvermanedwino@reddit

Got the vaccine after a bout of shingles.

Get the shots.

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Successful_Visit6503@reddit

This.

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FabricArsonist@reddit

Having never got them, I don't have to take a shingles vax.

My daughter is vaxxed from CP and caught chickenpox anyway when she was 8, which her doctor said if she was at least 20 years older he would swear it was shingles. She's 14 and had shingles last year again. A third time and he's going to vax her.

Meanwhile...I have to avoid those with any variation like the plague.

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banksy_h8r@reddit

Had you considered the possibility that you had an asymptomatic case?

Also, you might want the vaccine anyways. I've heard full-blown chickenpox as an adult truly sucks.

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FabricArsonist@reddit

I had one with my son and it put me in icu.

I don't have an immunity to it as far as they can tell. I do have an immunity to TB and small pox and some other bad nasties (weird testing for not coming down to both when heavily exposed....so they had fun with my blood), so I guess it was a bio trade off?

I catch it every few years and other than when I was a baby, have never gotten more than 4 areas of it. I catch it, and my immune system goes nuts.

It is classified as a weird autoimmune disorder. My immune system is fantastic except for vitiligo, and another autoimmune disorder, but on the other hand...I'm a middle aged woman and my bone density is better than 99% of people. This "weird" autoimmune dis is a lot like the movie unbreakable. Although I have broke bones, what takes 6 to 8 weeks is usually healed in about 2. And I really have to break it, i don't get hairline fractures. Like falling 20 feet on my elbow or having a car fall on me from a jack (broke my arm).

When my immune system goes into overdrive, I don't get sick as such, but I get extremely fatigued, run a fever (my body temp naturally is 100.9, this is like 102-103 area), and have no motivation for anything.

I also don't hardly bruise, i rarely bleed (i do, but i cut my finger and wipe it off and it's done or will seep for a minute or two), and have very little feelings in my fingertips. Yes, I can turn food without a spatula.

littlescreechyowl@reddit

I never had chicken pox but I’m immune compromised so I got my shingles vaccine at 43ish.

VonGrippyGreen@reddit

I got my shots at 47. Too many horror stories floating around about how bad the affliction is. Plenty of stories of the shots being tough as well, but I asked my doctor for the shots, and she was fine with me getting them "early".

FTR, my first shot was nothing. Second one was sore arm for a couple days. Everybody's different, but I can vouch for some of us not having the awful three days or whatever.

I am so sorry to hear this. A friend of mine suffers from this and he was quite miserable for a long time.

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AdEastern9303@reddit

Worked with a guy about 5 years older. He got shingles on his head. After seeing him go through that, my wife and I got the vaccine as soon as we turned 50.

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Silvaria928@reddit

Just got my second shingles shot two days ago. Had fatigue for about 36 hours and now I'm feeling better. Well worth it.

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That sucks. Shingles in the eye is very painful and can kill you. Learn from this guys mistake and get all of your vaccines