So maybe some here knows the answer to this. Since you brought up shingles.
I somehow avoided getting chicken pox as a kid when everyone in my family and all my friends had it.
When I was 30 I got a chicken pox vaccine.
My endo told me I can’t get shingles because I never had chicken pox, but my NP told me I should get the shingles vaccine. I get a different story from every person I ask.
I’ve been told shingles vaccine is live virus and could then make me susceptible to getting it, and taking it is a big mistake. While others say it will protect me.
@Frantastic, My shingles were on my face and side of my head, I even had them in my mouth, luckily they did not infect my eye. I had the worse headaches of my life, I do not have migraines but I can’t imagine any worse headache.
@Timothy, before I got the shingles I thought I was immune because I did not remember getting chickenpox as a child. When I asked my mom she said I may have had a very mild case with only one breakout spot. I remember all my brothers having them but not me.
I was thinking the same thing. So my doctor tested me for antibodies. I had none, so I never had it. Then I got the vaccine. I was retested a few years later showing no antigen but now I have antibodies cause that’s what vaccines do.
I don’t want to introduce live virus into my body if I don’t need to.
