My wife was wiped out with the flu symptoms and sore arm for almost a week and I had large hives occur from the beltline up my back to about my shoulders that lasted for almost two weeks after the first shot. The doctor said it would behoove us both to skip the second one. This was only a few months ago.
Been three months with my outbreak. Feels like the nerve damage is permanent but perhaps that is just a function of how slow its lifting. I’m told by a friend his nerve pain lasted the better part of a year. I’ve been waiting for it to clear up before I got vaccinated but this last post scares me a little. Nobody wants to see this fat belly but I took the picture so you have to see it
. Btw, the nerve pain was over my whole back, all the way to my armpits and down the backs of both arms, every bit as bad as where it surfaced. But the stubborn pain is only where the rash surfaced.
. Btw, the nerve pain was over my whole back, all the way to my armpits and down the backs of both arms, every bit as bad as where it surfaced. But the stubborn pain is only where the rash surfaced.Attachments
I got my first shot 2 years ago and I was sicker than a dog. The nurse prepared me for it though. Before I got the shot she told me I was going to hate her later. Yeah, I’m not getting any more of those shots. I had a lot of shots in the military and the Shingles vaccine was by far the worst vaccine I’ve had.
Supposedly the vaccine will at least lessen the severity of the outbreaks if you do have another bout of Shingles.
I’ve had shingles once, with no external signs, but half my head felt like it had been on fire and was put out with a bucket of boiling water.
Don’t want to go through that again, so got the vaccine.
wife and I had the shingrix vaccine and she had flu-like symptos and I had none. We told our Doctor and he said the second part that we are to take wont hit her as hard.-the side effects are lessened.
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Funny how doctors are so different in what they say. The Shingrix website says the second dose is usually harder on people than the first. It certainly was for me.
Your reaction to the 2d injection is pretty much a carbon copy of my experience. No problem with the first one.
I've had 2 older shingle vax and never had problems...
Was in Dr. office Tuesday and inquired about Shingrix. Nurse said strong, tough, and healthy guys are having a very tough time with the second shot. And what do they do for pain? Seems in this day and age that should be a standard treatment. Just like after a surgery.
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