Friday, August 15, 2008
Shingles Vaccination
They have a new vaccination for Shingles prevention. I had my checkup this morning and my doctor advised getting it. So she wrote me a prescription and we stopped at the pharmacy at K-Mart and I got it. Took about 10 minutes in all with insurance check to see how it was covered. If you should get shingles, it will be painless with this vaccination. They are advising it for everyone who had chicken pox as a child over the age of 50 or 60, not sure on that. Anyway I got it. My husband had shingles some years back and it was very painful on his back. It is called Zostavax.
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You can't get the vaccination until age 60. I had shingles for the first time this year (58) and yes it is very painful. What I'm not sure about now is whether you can still get the vaccination after you have had shingles.
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