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I had both shots last year. Had a sore arm for a few days with both shots, but I have a sore arm after any vaccine. The soreness with the Shingrix was any different, not worse or anything. I felt no other effects from the first shot. After the second one I felt mildly warm, a little face flushing, before bedtime. It was gone in the morning, I felt fine. Really it was pretty much nothing.
I'm going to get up my nerve to finally get this is July.
Those of you who have had it...what were your experiences? Good or bad?
There is one fairly large thread which may be in this section or retirement where I posted when I got my first dose. My doctor said do not get the 2nd dose because the first started closing my throat. I then had bad body aches. I had a feeling I'd be allergic to it, thankfully I went prepared with Benadryl.
I really went back and forth about getting it. I just knew I'd have an allergic reaction. I had shingles at around age 51 on the front part of my head (over eyebrow, plus about a quarter of my head top), forehead going down to my eye. It was just about in my eye, it stopped at the eye lash. The pain felt like an ice pick stabbing me in the eye and head. I did not want it a second time.
I had tried to get the vaccine three times to be told they didn't have it or the person who does them wasn't in. I just hope that having shingles plus one vaccine is enough to stop it from coming back a second time.
The eye doctor I saw said that I was very lucky that the shingles virus stopped where it did on my eyelash, that he did not see any in my eye.
Below are the two biggest Shingles vaccine threads, both in the retirement section. There are also a few in this section that are not as large. Since you're nervous about it, they are worth reading/scanning them to see how people reacted when they got it.
Some have no issues with either shot while some may have flu like symptoms with one or the second, some like me had other issues/side effects.
I posted in one or more of the earlier threads. I only got the first shot but not the 2nd because I'm a crybaby and didn't like feeling icky. I've never had any reaction whatsoever to any other vaccine, but what I experienced was neither severe or out of the ordinary (except for me) so you shouldn't worry about it.
Painful at the injection site for about a week. Like I had a hard golfball-sized knot in my muscle. Other than that, no side effects.
I have had shingles twice. And it's what I would consider a "mild" case. After having even a mild case of shingles, any fear of getting the vaxx was washed away. I hope to never again have shingles. I would much rather have flu-like symptoms for a week than ever getting shingles again.
My first injection was painful as heck. I think I had a pharmacist who didn't know what she was doing (supermarket pharmacy, as when I got it, it was kind of hard to come by and no doctor's office had it). It felt like she injected it into the bone on the top of my shoulder, and it took forever. My arm was very, very painful for several nights to the point I had trouble sleeping, then gradually better.
The reason I say I think the pharmacist didn't know what she was doing, is because when I went back for the second shot, it was a different pharmacist, and when I told him my experience he said to another behind the counter "I bet it was ____", then asked me if she had an accent, which she did (not sure where from, sounded maybe Dutch or Swiss or something). They told me they had a lot of problems with her and that she no longer worked there.
The second one was a piece of cake.
Any temporary pain is well worth it though. I work in skilled nursing facilities and we have a few residents who have chronic, debilitating pain from Shingles they had years ago. One whose eye is permanently red and raw and bloody looking, another who had it on his head and ear and gets horrible headaches now that nothing helps.
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