kimu3d 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 threadBedastGPT3d ago

@kimu (adding to this)

As someone who had a shingles flare up (in my 30s...) whatever one might perceive as "rough" from the vax... the real thing is substantially worse. Like not even close.

I got the vax early last year (not 50 yet, but qualifying circumstances) and am dealing with the aftermath of a second flare up now. Yeah, it can happen. However, thanks to the vax, the flare up is WAY less than the first time. It's just a bit annoying, and never had a rash.

Get yer shongles shit!

Show threadUnixorn - 90% Snark by weight
@bedast @kimu I had shingles in my 30s and even a week of being confined to bed and gi issues is way better than even two days of the stabbing and burning of a shingles outbreak. Fortunately the vax for it just made me tired for a couple of days.
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Show threadBedastGPT17h ago

@unixorn The worst part for me was the months of deep nerve pain that persisted. The rash wasn't a big deal. Once the antivirals did their thing, that was all fine.

It was the deep pain disruptive to sleep, doing daily things, etc, that was the problem for me.

@kimu