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Shingrix and peripheral neuropathy
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Hi Betty - My SFPN symptoms started in February 2023 (this year) - at least that's when I first noticed something was up. In the fall of last year (6 months before noticeable symptoms) I had my second Shingrix shot in Sept 2022, a flu shot in Oct 2022 and a COVID-19 booster in Oct 2022. And a Prolia shot in Dec 2022. Coincidence? Who knows. Did all that kick my immune system into high gear? Who knows. I'm still symptomatic and it's actually a bit worse now with the infernal itching/electrocution at night.
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I know about the itching and burning. It seems a long time since the shots to make a correlation. Do the doctors know what caused the neuropathy? Sometimes they can guess. Neuropathy is one of those fields that is evolving. For people and like and you, it is frustrating to be told that they don't know the causation and that the symptoms will only get worse. Still in my case I was able to lose weight, drop and A1C, and thereby have some reason to believe that I was delaying the onset of more severe symptoms. We do all we can to mitigate! Try that!