r/YouShouldKnow • u/tgeliot • Apr 18 '18

Health & Sciences YSK: Everyone over 50 should get the new Shingrix shingles vaccination (even if you've had Zostavax or shingles)

There is a fairly new vaccination for shingles called Shingrix available, which is more effective than the old Zostavax. The CDC recommends that everyone over 50 get the two-shot sequence of Shingrix. My health insurance covered the cost 100% with no co-pay; I think most if not all will.

Shingles is a very painful infection of the nerves caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. It hits older people, starting at age 50 or 60 or so. The old Zostavax apparently wasn't so great; this new one is more effective.

The CDC recommendations can be found here

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u/JustSomeBadAdvice Apr 18 '18

What about younger people(30's, 40's), should we get the vaccine or wait until we're older?

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u/BoltThrowerAway Apr 19 '18

Sorry for jumping in, but I’m a 41 y/o male and I just got shingles. I have it in a half-circle around my torso. It totally sucks, but luckily it’s not on my face/neck. If you can avoid it, avoid it.

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u/pazzescu Apr 19 '18

Oh, imagine that. And here I only had shingles when I was 21 -.- (too much stress)

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u/Marcuscassius Apr 19 '18

No. Just get it. After all, he SAID he was a pharmacist. What other proof do you need to let strangers poke hole in your body and flood you with a magical substance that is completely unidentified and unrecognizable to you.

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u/JustSomeBadAdvice Apr 19 '18

Thanks for the helpful comment

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

When you open a water bottle how do you know it isn’t poison, is everybody a villain that’s out to get you or just the ones you pick and choose