Wellness

[drizzellla]

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@Calgal2too wrote:

Yeah, that's curious.  Unless it's an exposure concern, but if you're masked up, it shouldn't be a problem.  

Only other thing I can think of, is that he feels that pharmacies are overloaded with administering covid shots at the moment?  I don't know what kind of 'traffic' you're experiencing at the moment.   

Is the shingles vaccine still a 2-jab thing?  

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My husband got a shingles shot last Thursday. Yes he has to go back for the second shot. I forgot the time frame.

He still has a large red welt on his arm from where he got the shot. 

[Shelbelle]

Got my Shingrix at my local Rite Aid last fall.  Most doc offices dont have it in stock. I had to pay 50 for each dose, I have Medicare and a RX supp. if you have Med Part D it is covered 100%

[Shelbelle]

The time frame is one dose, next one 2 to 6 months later. 

[Mj12]

I would personally get the shot at the location of your choosing.  My husband got his first shingles vaccine at Walgreens; 2 months later he had to go see his PCP for something so she gave him the 2nd vaccine just to save him a trip to the pharmacy.  I just had my first at Walgreens too.  There was no charge to us for any of our shots.

[D Kay]

Sounds to me like he was saying that because of the high level of covid in your city,  to avoid the pharmacy right now.

[Katcat1]

@jubilant   I had my Shingles shots 2 years ago at the Osco Pharmacy.  You may want to call a couple of drug stores and ask what their procedures are for the Shingles shots and if they are separate from people getting COVID shots.  I have no idea what your doctor was talking about and going Orange.  Or, call his office and ask.  Shingles shot is in 2 separate sessions.  If I remember correctly about 2 months apart.

[Mindy D]

@jubilant @High spike in the virus right now, plus pharmacy is where sick people go, so you would get more chance of exposure. You could wait until there are less cases.

[teganslaw]

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@Mindy D wrote:

@jubilant @High spike in the virus right now, plus pharmacy is where sick people go, so you would get more chance of exposure. You could wait until there are less cases.

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There are sick people at the doctor's office, also, so I don't see the difference. I haven't gotten a shingles shot and will hold off awhile before getting one. The side effects sound bad. 

[SilleeMee]

I got the shingles vax at Walgreens before I went on Medicare and my insurance covered it 100%.

[jubilant]

Thanks everyone. I just thought it was a little "weird" (as another poster mentioned) that the doctor would talk about me getting a shingle's shot then discourage me from getting itat a pharmacy.  That is why I asked him if it was covid related and he did answer with a yes. He also said he was seeing a lot of sick people and covid is back on the rise.  Still, it was confusing, considering I had to wait 15 minutes in a waiting room with some young man lying on a bench, coughing, with his mask pulled down to his neck!