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
I.M. Bonetti@kimu Absolutely endorsed. I've known a couple people who had shingles, and it was terrible for them.
I got it as soon as I was eligible. For me, the first dose was similar to the first covid vaccine dose I got (site soreness, mild muscle soreness for a few hours), but the second dose was like having a one-day cold: fever, chills, muscle aches, basically all day the following day.
It was still vastly, VASTLY preferable to the misery the sufferers I knew had to deal with.