Feeling sickly from my second #shingles jab.
This is the appointed hour for me to awkwardly gush emotional and tell you that you're all brilliant and lovely and I love you all.
(I get seriously sappy when I'm sick. Like, literally lying on an ER bed, listening to Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" and blubbering like a loon.
A friend described it as my superpower. My immediate response was "I DID NOT ASK FOR THIS!!" ๐)
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Itโs 2 days later & so far Iโve had no bad #reaction to the 2nd #shingles #vaccination at all. ๐ค
Maybe Iโm just lucky like @feather1952 ?
The 1st of the 2 shots I definitely reacted to. My arm was inflamed for days & the heat coming off it was very noticeable.
I totally forgot! I was also just given the 2nd #Shingles shot!
THATโS supposed to be the bad one re: reactions & pain.
Oh well. ๐๐
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If I might add a personal note on the horror of the child abuse inflicted by #PlagueLover #antivaxers: I was born in 1957, before an effective vaccine against measles, much less chickenpox, even existed. If those vaccines HAD existed, my parents would have made sure I got them; whatever their flaws, they were staunch believers in modern medicine, including vaccination. They told me that I came very close to dying of measles before I was old enough to remember it. Unfortunately, I DO remember getting #chickenpox at age 6. Even today, more than half a century later, I remember the ghastly, relentless, tormenting itching โ as well as the pain of the attack of #shingles, a recurrence of the same virus, that I got at age 44.
And these #antivax fools would voluntarily force their children to embrace these horrors??
The FDA Takes Its Turn Burying Studies Showing The Safety Of COVID, Shingles Vaccines
The Backward Logic of Chickenpox Parties
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/chickenpox-parties-and-the-pre-vaccine-internet/
@shansterable also, getting shingles is pretty terrible even if it's not life threatening. Can confirm. Direct nerve stimulation ain't fun.
the study about #Shingrix protecting from the brain decay of #Alzheimer's #dementia was done at Oxford University and, interesting enough, the benefit was more conclusive in women:
New shingles vaccine could reduce risk of dementia | Oxford University - https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-07-25-new-shingles-vaccine-could-reduce-risk-dementia
link to the paper:
The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia | Nature Medicine - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03201-5
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The new recombinant shingles vaccine โShingrixโ is associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to an earlier shingles vaccine, according to a major new study published in Nature Medicine. It is also more protective than vaccines against other infections.
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