Originally Posted by
ajGoes
While we're on the subject of traveling after receiving a vaccine, I'm suffering my fifth day of very uncomfortable side effects from my second Shingrix (the new, more effective shingles vaccine) injection. I'm really glad I'm not traveling. I had severe chills the first night, then gradually increasing neck stiffness which is quite painful now. I don't know what percentage of recipients suffer these symptoms but Google tells me I'm far from alone.
DH and I got our 1st dose of Shingrix, and then the 2nd dose, 2 months later. The dosing for the 2nd is 2-6 months after 1st.
He had bad reaction. Flu like symtoms. Fever, chills for a couple of days. I didn't have any of that. We BOTH had "chicken pox" type itchy bumps. On our lower side of back. That lasted about a week and a half. I wonder if we should have spaced the 2 doses farther apart??
I'm glad we got the vaccine. My Dad had shingles and he's very tough. He said it was one of the most painful things he's ever had.
As an interesting side note. We just had our titer tests ( to see what immunizations we had as children). We were born in late 1961 and late 1962 and in the "gray area" of Measles immunizations. I had the anti bodies. He did not. So he got his immunizations recently. Wonder if there is a connnection??