kimuAn occasional reminder that if you’re 50 or older and haven’t gotten two doses of the shingles vaccine, this is an effective vaccine that helps to prevent an extremely painful and potentially debilitating disease. While the vaccine gets a bad rap for being rough to deal with (not my experience, personally), literally every person I know who has had shingles has talked about getting shingles being really horrible. https://www.npr.org/2026/04/06/nx-s1-5745209/shingles-symptoms-vaccine-treatment
Jeremy DuBois@kimu The vaccine hit me pretty hard, both doses. But I've also had (a pretty mild case of) shingles, and the vaccine was absolutely nothing at all compared to the stabbing knife-like pains from the shingles. Definitely still recommend the vaccine.