Shingles vaccine

So - they can give in your right arm.



I very well could be confused but I was told that you need to get the shingles vaccination before you deal with it for it to work.

My primary suggested I get the shingles vaccine after I developed a case of shingles not long after my exchange surgery. I was 50 at the time, but the pharmacy (where they administer) said I had to be 60. Recently heard age for vaccine has been lowered to 50. I am bilateral mast, and I will definitely get in thigh.

WinterStorm: hoping for a clean scan tomorrow.

They did lower the age to 50, I'll have to ask my PCP about it at my next physical.

Kira

WinterStorm: wishing you all the luck and good news.

Kira

Mindy--Good luck on vaccine.  I had shingles 20 yrs ago from the back of my head to the tip of my nose.  Horrible!  I was told the vaccine was only for people who have not had shingles.  I called the CDC and they said only testing was done on people over 60 and had not had shingles BUT they recommended it for all over 60.  I dawdled and did not get it until after surgery, radiation, and LE.  I had it last fall with no after effects.  I only have LE on one side so had it in the other arm.  I hope you prevail on where you want the injection.

Tina--Good news.  Maybe they did a study on those who had had shingles.  I would hate to get them again.  I had to see an eye doctor for three weeks because it was in my eye.  So six years I may redo just to be safe.  Thanks.

I got shingles on my left lower torso (cancer side) a few months PFC (last April) and had to postpone my exchange. I was 50. My PCP said that the shingles vaccine doesn't always work. Also your chances of getting shingles again are very low unless you had the outbreak for more than 1 month (I had it for 5 weeks. Really sucked too). I believe it was just approved for age 50 and above a year ago but insurance will only cover for 60+. Not sure if it will cover for immune compromised.

I did not get the vaccine but I made my husband (over 60) get it.

  I got a shingles vac a month ago between changing chemos. I am 53 and insurance would not pay. I got a prescription from my PCP and got the vac at a Walgreens Take Care Clinic. it cost me $219. I had no problems from it.

  I have wanted to do it for a while because I have seen what shingles can do. The biggest problem I had was the nurse at the clinic did not want to give it to someone in cancer treatment. I told her I would not be there without the blessing of my different docs. She kept looking up stuff on the internet-I finally told her give me my script back and I would go somewhere else. She finally did agree to it.

Glad I found this post as I have had this for the second time in three months during chemo, exact same spot, lower abdominal area.  Of course I'm not sure, but the blisters look exactly like photos I've found on line.  I'll go to the doctor tomorrow, but I'd rather it be shingles than some of the other possibilites I imagined but rules out, such as flesh-eating disease!