Not Real Smart

[shouldazagged]

I had a comparatively light case of shingles on my face and head the first of this year. About a month ago I got the flu and shingles shots the same day and had no problems except a little redness and tenderness where the shingles vaccine was injected.

With my lungs in the shape they are, a case of flu could all too easily put me out of business. Both my primary doc and lung specialist stress the importance of the vaccine.

I damn sure don't want shingles again.

I inquired about whether I needed to have another pneumonia shot, but was told that after 65 (I'll be 77 in less than a month) I don't have to repeat that one. I may get a second opinion on that.

 

[kaaskop49]

Thanks for the skinny on the shingles shot. Had never heard of such a shot. Absolutely am not going to take anything I don't know about or had not been recommended by my doctor. Sorry, but I don't live in a "They're gonna get you" world. Am more concerned with my steadily worsening emphysema, the main reason I moved to the desert.

Patient Fusion: I Googled it: seems to be an independent system of medical records and appointments. You'll garner much more by reading it than my post.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Wasn't that how "Walking Dead" started?

 

[scooter123]

Ill bet it was the pneumonia vaccine. A couple of years back my family doc gave me that shot and it darned near felt like someone had shot me in the arm with a 22 for about a week. I get a flu shot every year and never have a reaction to it and next year I'll get the Shingles shot after I turn 60.

I've come to the conclusion that getting old really isn't much fun. Can't See Stuff, Can't Remember Stuff, and every time I see the doctor he has some new reason to poke me somewhere.

 

[wbraswell]

I was worried. The title made me think this thread was about me.

 

[labworm]

In 1967 before going overseas, my shot record was not up to date.

Walked in, compliments of the US Army, 3 shots in my right arm 2 shots in my left.

Rubber arms for the next few days.
Kept an eye of my shot record after that one.

 

[handejector]

You should have gotten the ebola and trench foot vaccinations while you were there.