kimu1d ago
An 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
Show threadPaul_IPv6

@kimu

there's also some research into the shingles vaccine helping put off dementia. but just not getting shingles sure seems to make it worth it.

Apr 6 at 5:38pmWeb
Show threadNazo23h ago

@paul_ipv6 @kimu More and more and more it's starting to look like certain sorts of diseases that everyone thinks of as perfectly normal to keep getting when there are ways they could avoid them may just contribute towards stuff like dementia and Alzheimer's.

But darn, if you avoid all those diseases you'll be stuck with the unfortunate condition of "living healthier and with less suffering." Darn it!