I have had long covid since 2022 and had both doses of the shingles vax this year, about five months apart. The first vax was easier than the second - you will need a day or two to recover from that one. However, shingles vaccine has always known to be rough, long before Covid. I think I felt some recurrence of LC symptoms for up to two weeks after the second vax, but nothing that set off alarm bells. Totally tolerable. I had a bigger setback after an infection with a common cold virus. That really shocked me.

A shingles infection post covid scares me a lot more than feeling crappy after the vaccine. Our immune systems are shredded - that’s why the common cold now floors us for weeks. But I’ve heard that shingles after covid, much less with long covid, is pure hell. I am not a doctor but would get the vaccine over the infection, no doubt.