A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia by reducing the risk of varicella-zoster virus reactivation.
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Just had shingles. Do not recommend. Get vaccinated.
Side note: If you do get shingles near your eye, go to the eye doctor, it can blind you if bad enough
Yup. Also, shingles presents on one side of the body, not both. This is because it’s following a branch of your nervous system.
Also if you have a rash that’s “tingling” then call a doc and get on some antivax, it will cut down the length and strength of your symptoms significantly.
Shingles isn’t usually contagious to people that have had it or chickenpox.
The chickenpox/shingles lifecycle amazes me. It’s like it was designed to not be stamped out like smallpox through normal methods.
The chickenpox vax changed the game though, and it’s possible the generation that got vaxd will result in a significant reduction in shingles and more importantly a reduction in shingles pharmaceutical advertising.
had at 20, although it was only shocks and pain a small rash. it did have permanent damage though, but its not severe like a huge rash. numb right where the scars are, and hypersensitive right outside the rash(this was more than 10years ago), and spinal stiffness. i did get phn for a couple years though. (the nerve damage is permanent though,outside of the phn)
I had a shingles outbreak a few years ago during a time in my life that I had extremely high stress. It covered half my chest and was too painful to touch to do anything other than lay or sit still. Putting on a shirt felt like getting sliced by razor blades, and something like putting on ba seatbelt felt like being stabbed. Would not recommend.
did you spine ever get stiff, mines did so i could bend properly, so it was quite difficult. apparently mines went to the spine.
Thankfully I didn’t have any lasting effects, just 3 days of awful pain
im guess mine went long enough to reach the spine, it doesnt take much since the dorsal root ganglion is right next to it.
I got chicken pox only a few years before it was widely available. Rip
Chicken pox was always widely available.
Very true. I meant to say chicken pox vaccine lol
It’s chickenpox, which can resurface as shingles in adulthood.
Before there was a vaccine, parents would deliberately expose their kids to chickenpox, reasoning that it would confer long term immunity at an age when an infection was unpleasant but didn’t seem very dangerous. (As opposed to in adulthood, when an infection was likely to be a greater danger.) I don’t think anyone had linked it to neurological problems yet.
Since then, we have found correlation between the varicella zoster virus and multiple sclerosis, and now apparently dementia. I don’t know if it has been proven to be a contributing factor yet, but I think it’s pretty clear that getting vaccinated is the right thing to do.
Yeah my mom didn’t believe in vaccines an exposed me to chicken pox. Dementia already runs in the family too. What a jackpot for me.
