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Grover's Disease tied to Shinglix Vaccine
A member of the Grover's Disease, GD, discussion questioned if he could have acquired GD from his Shingles Vaccine as he began having GD symptoms after the shot. It made me realize my last outbreak began 3 days after my Shinglix vaccine shot. I read nothing about this on the literature for this shot I studied on the internet. I saw my dermatologist yesterday to ask if there was a tie in and he said, "Yes, 100% this vaccine can initiate or cause GD symptoms to return". For those not familiar with GD look it up. It is an intensely itching and painful torso rash that comes and goes for life. The collagen in the skin is changed. I can't believe Shingles is any more miserable. I so wished I had checked with my dermatologist first. Presently a prescription is not needed for this shot and can be given at any pharmacy which has it in stock. I also did not read anything on all the pages I signed warning me that it could trigger this disease before I got this shot at Sam's Club. My dermatologist is Jonathan Bellew, DO of the Mohave Skin and Cancer Center in Arizona and Nevada.
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Shingles can be more miserable than GD by a long shot. I had a case that covered my entire right torso. I have never experienced greater pain; I felt like I had been doused with an accelerant and set afire. My doctor put me in the hospital and on a morphine pump for a week. The initial outbreak was followed by two years of post-herpetic neuropathy which was also very painful and required heavy painkillers. I was lucky not to have become an addict.
I've had Grovers outbreaks in 2007/2008 and September 2021 to the present. I had NB UVB light treatments last summer which seem to have helped, but not eliminated, the itch. I had shingles last July. The blisters lasted several weeks and were followed by a couple months of postherpetic neuralgia. I had a prescription the first day of blisters which may or may not have helped. The remedies for the blisters work pretty well. Gabapentin helped with the postherpetic neuralgia. Gabapentin also gave me 13 years of remission of my first bout with Grovers but it just stopped working. I would say the shingles pain is worse but, fortunately, it does end. Grovers is a life sentence.