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[Rockycoast]

Both my husband and I went to our local pharmacy in our grocery store and got our flu shot a few weeks ago.  We will get our Shingles shot tomorrow. Have had the flu shot every year for as long as I can remember. No problems with it and no flu.  Shingle shot we started last year. No problems with that either.  Both were covered by our insurance.

[lovesrecess]

I have been getting a flu shot for years...never any side effects other than a slightly sore arm. The past two years I have had the stronger vaccine for seniors. Both times I have had my arms and legs stiffen up and ache so much I could hardly move, chills so severe my teeth were chattering..lasted 3-4 hours and then I was fine both times. It has to be from getting a stronger vaccine?

[SharkE]

my husband knew a gal who had the shingles shot and was in pain from the shot and some report they get a mild case of the rash.

That changed his mind. LOL

Everybody is different and obviously all Medicare insurance is different

Private insurance I have no idea about they might pay for everything.

LOL

probably genetics can predict if one gets it where the other one don't.

I called my FNP gal and they don't give them at all. Have to go to a pharmacy or supermarket.

[lovesrecess]

It just takes getting a bad case of the flu once to convince someone the flu vaccine is a good thing after all.

[gidgetgh]

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@Rockycoast wrote:

Both my husband and I went to our local pharmacy in our grocery store and got our flu shot a few weeks ago.  We will get our Shingles shot tomorrow. Have had the flu shot every year for as long as I can remember. No problems with it and no flu.  Shingle shot we started last year. No problems with that either.  Both were covered by our insurance.

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@Rockycoast - I'm confused.  The shingles vaccine is a two part vaccine, given just one time, not a yearly shot. 

[SharkE]

2 parts. 2 vials.  You wait couple of months apart from when you take the

first shot.   Shinglix, is the better of the 2 products. The other one is called Zos something or the other can't spell it.

[lovesrecess]

I had a colleague who had shingles and she was 42 years old. She missed 2 weeks of work and came back to the office looking like she had been through a very bad time. Could be that if the vaccine is in short supply, they try and give it to older people instead of those under 65 or whatever the “ senior” age is. If you want the shot and are turned down due to age, I would check elsewhere.

[Anonymous032819]

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@SharkE wrote:

2 parts. 2 vials.  You wait couple of months apart from when you take the

first shot.   Shinglix, is the better of the 2 products. The other one is called Zos something or the other can't spell it.

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@SharkE 

The two vaccines are called Zostavax and Shingrix.

[lovesrecess]

It took weeks for me to find Shingrex. I was on three call lists and never got a call. Finally went to a neighboring town to pick up something else, and stopped in a Walgreens, and they had it. Walked right up and they gave it to me. Never did get a call from the three pharmacies I had signed a list for,

[noodleann]

I would never get two vaccines at the same time because if I had a systemic reaction, there'd be no way to know what had caused it. I also want my body to deal with one at a time. With MS, my immune system is already plenty confused.

I have had influenza vaccines, regular dose, for years, and never had a reaction. I have never had influenza in the years I had the shot. In years prior, when I was younger and didn't have the vaccine, I had it twice.

I had an unpleasant reaction to the pneumonia shot when I had it a few years ago. I didn't view that as a good thing and no medical person said it was or told me it indicated it was "working." When I was told I needed another pneumonia shot, I said no to the one that made me sick and they gave me the kiddie version. No problem. Have never had pneumonia.

No one has mentioned the shingles vaccine to me. I'll bring it up at my next checkup, along with the HCV test that I want to get checked off my medical to-do list, since I'm in the Boomer cohort.