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Have you experienced severe reaction to Shingles shot?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: 5 days ago | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
Two weeks after my Shingles shot, I got Shingles. Neither my Primary nor Dermatology physicians could believe it. After six weeks, when everything calmed down, my Primary told me that a new Shingles shot was now available, and that now I needed to get this one. I was most reluctant, but I figured what are the chances. I should have known. Two weeks later, six more weeks of shingles sets in - in the same area, no less, UGH!
Obviously, the Shingles shots are stronger than they thought.
The best to you in coping with your particular reactions.
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@ellece Like you I got what I consider a mild case of Shingles several weeks after the shot .
I have had 3 types of eczema, all in remission now for years. At first I thought I was having an outbreak of Transient Acantholytic Dermatitis , AKA, Grover's Disease, GD which is a wrap around torso rash. This new rash was plaque like and looked like photos I have seen of Shingles and only on my abdomen one of the areas the GD would manifest on, but it didn't have the individual papuales typical of GD. People mention the pain and itching with Shingles, yet this reaction rash was not as itchy or painful as GD. Miserable yes, it itched and hurt but not in the extreme like GD, and I was able to sleep at night. I saw my derm who told me I should have consulted with him before getting the Shingles shot, as he had seen this reaction before from eczema patients and it was not of an outbreak GD or my other 2 forms of eczema. Perhaps the autoimmune disease component in eczema allowed this vaccine to give me a mild case of Shingles. That was about 6 years ago and have never had another outbreak.