Post #957716
2026-04-06 13:17 UTC
Replies (21)
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@bytebro@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-06 13:22
@kimu@wandering.shop Here in the UK, I can't get the vaccine on the NHS until I'm 70, but I can pay for it privately at £250/shot if I choose. So at the age of 68, it's just a risk assessment of the chances of getting shingles in the next 2 years!
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@tsturm@famichiki.jp 2026-04-06 13:38
@kimu@wandering.shop @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social Co-signed. My reaction wasn’t worse than a flu-shot. My wife was hit pretty hard by it, but it’s still way better than shingles.
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@technothrasher@universeodon.com 2026-04-06 14:01
@kimu@wandering.shop The vaccine hit me pretty hard, both doses. But I've also had (a pretty mild case of) shingles, and the vaccine was absolutely nothing at all compared to the stabbing knife-like pains from the shingles. Definitely still recommend the vaccine.
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@aachrisg@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-06 14:31
@kimu@wandering.shop It's also the closest thing we have to a dementia vaccine.
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@coatilex@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 15:51
@kimu@wandering.shop It's only available for 60+ over here 😢
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@draNgNon@hachyderm.io 2026-04-06 16:27
@kimu@wandering.shop my reaction was super bad, fever and overnight shakes and shudders, but I know people who have gotten shingles. A couple nights of fever and shakes, far preferable to shingles and its lifetime effects.
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@bedast@beige.party 2026-04-06 16:37
@kimu@wandering.shop (adding to this) As someone who had a shingles flare up (in my 30s...) whatever one might perceive as "rough" from the vax... the real thing is substantially worse. Like not even close. I got the vax early last year (not 50 yet, but qualifying circumstances) and am dealing with the aftermath of a second flare up now. Yeah, it can happen. However, thanks to the vax, the flare up is WAY less than the first time. It's just a bit annoying, and never had a rash. Get yer shongles shit!
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@ChrisFerguson@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 16:46
@kimu@wandering.shop And it likely helps prevent Dementia/Alzheimer's too. (recent studies correlate this!)
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@Photo55@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 16:50
@kimu@wandering.shop I've had one dose so far. I was aware that my immune system was working quite hard after it. This seems rather good, it is the purpose. If I spent a while exercising my musculoskeletal system in some slightly new way I would expect to be aware of work having been done, and adjustments continuing. #immunity #exercise #body
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@not3ottersinacoat@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 17:04
@kimu@wandering.shop I got shingles when I was in my 30s, and I was very lucky that it was "mild". I wonder if that affects whether/when I should get the vaccine.
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@LovingFalloutLondon1954@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 17:19
@kimu@wandering.shop I was still employed when I got my doses. I waited until Friday to get it and laid around watching TV all weekend while sick with the side effects. Nice excuse to goof off.
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@xenophora@mastodon.art 2026-04-06 17:35
@kimu@wandering.shop Yeah, I got worse side effects from these vaccines than from any other. But also, no I DON’T want shingles again so...
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-04-06 17:38
@kimu@wandering.shop there's also some research into the shingles vaccine helping put off dementia. but just not getting shingles sure seems to make it worth it.
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@tarabara@indieweb.social 2026-04-06 18:38
@kimu@wandering.shop I now know of two people *under* the age of 50 (32 & 43) who have had it and both are screaming to go get the dang vaccine even if you aren't yet 50. The antiviral pills are the size of exotic beetles (2" long, thick baddies) and the rash is awful. I'll be bringing this up with my doc next week. Stress has a strong correlation as well as other immune suppressing factors so don't assume you can put this off for later.
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@bonetti@mstdn.social 2026-04-06 19:09
@kimu@wandering.shop Absolutely endorsed. I've known a couple people who had shingles, and it was terrible for them. I got it as soon as I was eligible. For me, the first dose was similar to the first covid vaccine dose I got (site soreness, mild muscle soreness for a few hours), but the second dose was like having a one-day cold: fever, chills, muscle aches, basically all day the following day. It was still vastly, VASTLY preferable to the misery the sufferers I knew had to deal with.
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@cathos@merveilles.town 2026-04-06 20:05
@kimu@wandering.shop also, if you're immunocompromised at all, you can and should get it, no matter your age. I got shingles at age 28, and managed to get the vaccine a couple years later. It hasn't popped up again, so far. But yeah. Do not recommend getting shingles.
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@Cetraria@neurodifferent.me 2026-04-07 04:53
@kimu@wandering.shop for me, the first vaccine was the roughest I've ever had. (I tend to over-respond to all vaccines) And yet, having watched young loved ones go through shingles infections, I'd get the vaccine every month for a year to avoid that pain and suffering! Twice is no problem at all.
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@kaffando@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 08:13
@kimu@wandering.shop Also a reminder that you can only develop shingles if you've had chicken pox / varicella-zooster. In addition, #COVID19 has been shown to re-activate dormant viruses like varicella, which is why there appears to be (well, there is) more shingles around than prior to COVID.
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@cbuddenhagen@mastodon.nz 2026-04-07 08:47
@kimu@wandering.shop In NZ, the two shots cost more than $700. Would love to get it, but I might wait until it's free at 65. #vaccine
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@nolsen311@infosec.exchange 2026-04-07 16:15
@kimu@wandering.shop It is. Shingles is absolutely fucking terrible. You will look like you have The Plague. You're only a risk to unvaccinated ppl/infants. I was unlucky enough to have shingles 2 years ago along my jaw. It felt like dental surgery without anesthesia. It's direct nerve stimulation. Excruciatingly painful. And it can be anywhere on/in your body. [Removed unnecessarily antagonizing antivaxx assignments] Shingles is one of the only immunizations that are live virus. I can't get the other one. 😭 @shansterable@ohai.social
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@eedly@mindly.social 2026-04-08 14:24
@kimu@wandering.shop Also, if you're like I was and you forgot to get the second shot and you feel like it's too late and you're a bad person for forgetting and and and... Just. Get. The. Second. Shot. The window for getting the second shot is a LOT bigger than what the recommendations say. Get it done.