MaC
Moderator
I've had chickenpox. I was 29 when it finally caught me. Absolutely miserable and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. My primary school aged sons caught it and passed it along.
We had a family friend who had shingles, it was on her head and all her hair fell out and never re-grew. F. was a beautiful lady and this was just such a shame.
Forty five years she lived like that, and the shingles came back twice more.
Anyway, I've lived sort of in dread of the shingles.
On Friday I got a letter with an appointment for a shingles vaccination....sounds good, but there's a lot of evidence piling up that auto-immune disorders are kicked off by virus' issues.....and funnily enough I went down with RA shortly after I caught chickenpox.
No idea how true it all is, or is it just non linear, non joined up bits of 'evidence', assumption and coincidence.
In two minds about the vaccination. I'm pro vac, but I react so badly to them that I am beyond wary these days.
I have a fortnight to make up my mind.
Anyone else had this one ?
M
We had a family friend who had shingles, it was on her head and all her hair fell out and never re-grew. F. was a beautiful lady and this was just such a shame.
Forty five years she lived like that, and the shingles came back twice more.
Anyway, I've lived sort of in dread of the shingles.
On Friday I got a letter with an appointment for a shingles vaccination....sounds good, but there's a lot of evidence piling up that auto-immune disorders are kicked off by virus' issues.....and funnily enough I went down with RA shortly after I caught chickenpox.
No idea how true it all is, or is it just non linear, non joined up bits of 'evidence', assumption and coincidence.
In two minds about the vaccination. I'm pro vac, but I react so badly to them that I am beyond wary these days.
I have a fortnight to make up my mind.
Anyone else had this one ?
M