Shingles fuckin sucks. Had it crop up when I was in 6th grade, only like 5 or 6 years after having chicken pox. Miserable week or so. Not that I’ll have to, but I wouldn’t make my kids go to school if they had shingles.
The vaccine was just after I got it. Miserable. I lived in an oatmeal bath. My poor mother got it as an adult (when we got it and gave it to her)
She was worse up in all ways.
I’d have gnawed someone’s ankle off to have gotten the vaccine instead. But especially for my mother to have gotten it.
Chickenpox isn’t quite as bad as some of the other viruses but Shingles is horrid and you can only get shingles if you’ve had chickenpox which is more that enough reason to vaccinate your children. All I can wish on her is chronic chickenpox with exposure on her face and scalp.
I have a older relative whose shingles affected his nervous system and it led to encephalitis.
I wonder if she has natural remedies for that.
It’s awful as an adult, though. I got it when I was older and ended up in the hospital when I complained to my parents about how the walls had started melting. I had a raging fever and pneumonia.
That’s a normal Facebook post for you.
And people are fucking supporting this shit. Fuck Facebook this fucking malware is brain washing people.
By the way, even if you don’t remember if you got smallpox as a child, vaccinate now against shingles!
Yes, there is a vaccine and based on people who have shingles, you really don’t want to get it.
Had chicken pox when I was young and recently had shingles. It was so painful but I got lucky and it was over in about a week. Still visible where it was though. But in general I still think making your children just have chicken pox instead of vaccinating them is a common occurence here in Sweden as the vaccine isn’t part of the normal vaccination plan.
Then you’re immune for life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingles
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV) that also causes chickenpox.
I had chicken pox twice.
Once the normal variety when I was like 6 or whatever, then when I was like 11 or so I got it again when visiting my grandma who just hosted young kids. It was largely the same, except it had rings around the spots. They did tests and confirmed it was a mutated variety of common chicken pox.
I’m terrified of shingles outbreaks because I may have two strains lying dormant in my body, but I’m “too young for the shingles vax”
Yeah, I’d get the shingles vax in a heartbeat, but I’ve gotta wait another 6 years. Meanwhile I know several people who developed shingles in their forties and have lingering issues from it (particularly ophthalmic). The vaccine needs to be tested and approved for younger adults. But I doubt that’ll happen. They’ll just wait until those of us who got chicken pox as a kid are old enough for the shingles vaccine, and who cares if we get shingles in the meantime!
I’ve always wondered if there’s a chance we make the shingles virus extinct, but never looked into whether the chicken pox vaccine prevents it entirely
I had chicken pox really bad as a kid. I had from the tips of my toes to the top of my head … spots in every part of my body - EVERY PART OF MY BODY! … I even have a few left over scars from that ordeal.
I’m middle aged now and I had shingles about five years ago and it was horrible. It burns and itches and at the height of the infection it feels like you suffered from third degree burns and the damned skin itches and you keep wanting to touch it.
My experience with chicken pox mirrors yours - they were everywhere. I’m approaching middle age (or there, depending on who you ask (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉), and I’m hoping it doesn’t happen to me. But I know it’s just hanging out there in my spine… waiting.
Brought about by stress … I was going through a fairly stressful time with work, travelling to a new place and trying to make ends meet. Keep a good diet, exercise, eat healthy, sleep well and keep the stress down … if you mess any of those up, you’re increasing chances of that infection just creeping up. Like others have said, it’s probably best to just get the shingles vaccine.
Get the vaccine when you can. Because you’re right, and depending which nerve path it chooses it can be bad or it can be worse
Get that shingles vaccine asap. My Dad is the most stoic person I know when it comes to sickness and he literally CALLED ME ON THE PHONE howling about how bad it hurt. Don’t be my Dad, y’all.
Shingles can get in your eyes and cause you to go blind, too.
Thank you. I have a friend who went through this as an adult and ended up with nerve damage. A vaccine would have spared him that pain.
A colleague got shingles with … 55? He had stroke-like symptoms, i. e. half of his face is drooping, he lost control of one of his eyelids, and his mouth doesn’t close completely anymore.
What’s the point of giving every virus the chance to thrive?
Kate is all 7 of those things. 30 years ago it would have been fine to tell her so. What happened to society?
“long-term complications of childhood chicken pox” is one search that they don’t do
Profound hole in the “do your own research” theory: not knowing how to do thorough research
Or even having the time to do all this research I apparently need to do.
Not to mention that some research ends up behind pay walls and knowledge barriers.
Even if they get the right search terms, they’ll just keep scrolling till they find an obscure blog with an anecdote from 2 mothers which confirms their existing bias.
What do you mean I have to “read a book”? I’ll just find a wellness blog to tell me the thing I want to hear.
Chicken pox was. Miserable, and I’m didn’t have it that bad.
Give the kids the vaccine
Now do AIDS.
AIDS denialism is very much a thing.
Here’s my copy of Tom Bethell’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.
It’s absolutely better to get chicken pox than shingles, but if you get the vaccine, you get neither. But hey, I get it, big pharma is a monster, but many that rally against vaccines also use Ozempic, and plastic surgery etc. Is RFK really onto a thing with vaccines when he’s taking steroids?
It’s absolutely better to get chicken pox than shingles
It’s not one or the other though. If you don’t get chicken pox you can’t get shingles
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It’s also an anti-vaxx lie that vaccines somehow abuse the immune system in any way. The immune system is immensely complex to understand, let alone control. The most effective way for vaccines to work is to allow the immune system to do its thing. The immune system works to its full effect with vaccines, you simply do not get advanced symptoms or complications with vaccines compared to the real disease.
Chicken pox vaccine is a relatively recent invention. Before vaccination we knew that chicken pox was bad in kids but very bad in adults so better to get it as a kid if you had to get it at all. The vaccine changes the equation and not being able to evaluate that is a sign of stupidity. The vitriol from other parents is because she is hurting kids because she’s stupid.
I had chicken pox when I was three and it’s one of my few memories from that time in my life.
Fuuuuuck these people abusing their children.
