You can have them at the same time.

I am 70 years old and my husband 71. I am allergic to some medications… he is not.

We had our first Shingrix vaccine last Friday. We had our flu vaccine a week before and was offered the Shingix vaccine at same time. Because of me having allergies or severe reactions to some medications ... and had no idea how I would react to the Shingrix vaccine … I said I wanted to wait. My husband waited too. A week before the flu vaccine we had our covid booster vaccine. I ran a low grade fever for a few hours after the booster and a bit buggy for a couple of days.

Friday evening after having the Shingrix vaccine we both had very sore arms, felt buggy and had a headache. We felt even more miserable Friday… he was nauseous and I was nauseous and vomiting. Not a good thing when you are keeping your 7 & 8 year old grand-girls. By Sunday evening we were feeling better. Our arms were not sore to move.. but sore to touch by then. Those girls know how to find the sore spot when hugging.. they hug a lot! I think Tuesday the soreness was gone.

I looked up the side-effects of the Shingrix vaccine and these are more the side effects of the second vaccine than the first. Most people do not have such reactions. We are just weird. Usually it is just me that has the weird reactions and not my husband… guess I'm growing on him. 😂

What happens to others will probably not happen to you. You know you best. … how you react to medications.

To me this discomfort from the vaccine will be worth it to never get Shingles again. I had it on my face in Sept of 2017 and had a milder case of it on my face again earlier this year. Shingles is very painful! It is also scary near my eye. Shingles can enter the eye.

My goal here was not to scare you .. but maybe help you decide what is best for you.

ZeeGee