As I am turned 70 I have been offered the Shingles Vaccine,I have just read the symptoms of Shingles,which are not very nice, I also read the side effects of the Vaccine which can be nearly as bad as the disease. Does any one have any experience of this,vaccine/shingles.
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Started with a rash on the side of my head but I didn't feel particularly ill, just really tired. Then the pains started! Attacks the nerve endings and was cuasing some pretty severe shooting pains in my head and ear. Fortunately being young(ish) and generally healthy I saw it off fairly quickly but if you're offered the vaccine I'd take it as when you get over a certain age the odds of those pains taking a really long time to go aren't particularly favourable. There's also potential complications with your eyesight, hearing and even encephalitis depending on where the virus attacks.
They were on the left hand side of the top of my head, VERY painful but I felt fine really.
I hated missing games so played my regular Saturday football as a striker and although a target man managed to keep all headers on my forehead, away from pain zone.
About 10 mins left and our right back pings in a back post cross and I get over the top of the left back for my header BUT he crumbles and I fall forward so rather than hitting my forehead the all hits me smack bang on my Shingles patch.
The ball looped into the far corner but the pain was UNBELIEVABLE, like a thousand sharp needles being plunged into my skull.
We won the game 1-0 but it was the most painful win ever.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/who-can-have-the-shingles-vaccine.aspx
Imagine being hit around the ribs with a one wood and then a million tiny bugs crawling around under your skin in the same spot.
If you qualify, get the vaccine!
The nurse at the first appointment told me to come back in a little over 6 weeks and the nurse at the second said it should've been more like 6 months. As I was leaving the nurse said, 'You're pre-diabetic aren't you?' 'No' I said, 'I got out of that'. She then checked my other conditions and decided I qualified for the second jab early anyway.
I'm not entirely sure if that was for the best as I didn't question it - I'm a complete wimp at the Doctors. Anyway it's done, next stop RSI jab at 75 - if I make it
I hope you recover quickly its a malicious basterd!
While the pain wasn't as bad as some mentioned here, thankfully, I was misdiagnosed with infected insect bites so didn't start treatment early (first three days).
Means I now get a feeling of a numb face every so often on my left side and behind my ear. It's called PHN and apparently can last for years. Let's hope not.
Would highly recommend anyone gets the vaccine if eligible (unlike me).
Edit: I'm also rarely physically ill!
Had it to the left of my forehead and around my left eye. As others have said i'm not someone who goes to the doctors unless I feel I really need to and the way it suddenly came on, I had an online doctors appointment in the morning to confirm what it was and by the evening I was taken to Queen Mary's hospital as my left eye was beginning to close up and I could barely stand up for feeling feint. Was told to go up to Moorfields Eye Hospital the next day to check there was no damage to the eye, thankfully there wasn't. Don't think i'd ever felt so sick and unwell ever. Took a week off work sick as it exhausted me so much along with the side effects of the meds. For context i'd not gone sick from work in 10 years until then!
This was all as a 40 year old at the time so if you can get the jab I would highly recommend doing so.
Had turned down the vaccine only because I didn't want to have loads of vaccines at the same time Regret that now!
Mrs cafcfan has recently had hers. They said she would need a booster as they were now using a non-live vaccination.
Anyway, do it. The virus is horrible.