Shingles is the adult manifestation of the chickenpox virus, a herpes virus that once you have it, you have it forever. it can flare up later in life. the vaccine for it is incredibly effective at preventing heart disease (source: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/03/16/19/33/shingles-vaccine-drastically-cuts-risk-of-serious-cardiac-events ) so please help yourself and your community and get vaccinated today!
It’s so frustrating to me that the vaccine is 50+, as if the rest of us can’t get it. I WISH I could get my shongles shit today.
Protop: contract a debilitating autoimmune disease and get on immunosuppressants that don’t suppress the disease but do qualify you for all the niche vaccines from an early age
Or just work in healthcare
I had a shongles flare up when I was a teen. Can it also happen only once like chicken pox, or can there be a round 3? Wondering if I still need to get the shit or not
Fun fact, the shongles vax is also linked to lowering dementia risk https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
Clearly due to shongles causing dementia, thus not getting shongles reduces your chance of dementia! Dementia is likely often brain inflammation, so shongles just cooks ya gourd. Super cool thanks virus
Edit; Even cooler, for shongles vax to reduce the risk of heart disease that also has to mean that shongles causes heart inflammation. Super cool super cool, covid causes heart inflammation and you’re at risk for heart issues at least 9 months out from an infection (maybe life, could be perma organ damage sometimes, again very cool viri) I do not like that so many viri apparently do this
I think COVID cooked my immune system. My body attacks itself and I end up with welts when exposed to cold now. Very cool virus indeed.
🅱️ruh that’s ducked up, try antihistmemes H 1 and 2 (H1 allergy: Loratadine; H2 tum tum: Famotidine) at the same time next time you’re going into a sitch that causes the welts. They’ll reduce select inflammation that might cover whatever the fuck that is 🤷♀️ seems long covid inflammation is related to H1/H2 receptors often
Be wary H1 haves have major side effects, some (Zyrtec, Allegra) are addictive and you’ll have withdrawal symptoms. Loratadine/Claratin might make you depressed. All gen 1 will bulldoze your brain, light af touch with them.
That took me quite a while.
I got my shingles vaccines done last year because I saw how devastating shingles was when my mother-in-law got it. Yes, the shingles vax side effects can be brutal (they were for me), but a few days of suffering are a small price to pay.
What side effects are there?
For me it was fever, ache and pains including strong joint pain, skin sensitivity, inflammation of the lymph nodes found in the arm put area (also very tender to the touch) and severe headache.
Thanks. How long did the overrall symptoms last?
I decided to find out what a shongle is; From the word shoe, containing “sho”, which means a low-cut fabric for the foot, and dangle, meaning to hang loosely. A shongle is most likely a type of loose sock. Makes sense–you could, most likely, have your sock shit in.
