It looks like I’ve got shingles (appt later to confirm since I’m developing the symptoms my specialist on Wednesday said to keep an eye out for)… What a pain in the fkn arse!
That’s going to be an embarrassing email to my new section since it’s contagious to those who’ve not had chickenpox.
@bananafungus@bot001 if they were born before 2005, yes, there’s going to be a cohort who could potentially be vulnerable to chickenpox who didn’t get vaccinated before it became part of the 18 month NIP vaccines.
I’m planning to get the shingles vaccine as soon as my GP gets stock, the rules changed on Nov 1st and now some are eligible for free. I don’t think I am but it’s meant stock has got stretched =p
@bananafungus tbh everyone should be eligible for either shingles or chickenpox vaccine for free, because otherwise the scenario you are now in is going to crop up repeatedly for quite a while. I got shingles in my early 30s, and was lucky it wasn’t painful, but realised as I’m now older it will get more common to crop up and I might not escape the neuropathy 😬
It looks like I’ve got shingles (appt later to confirm since I’m developing the symptoms my specialist on Wednesday said to keep an eye out for)… What a pain in the fkn arse!
That’s going to be an embarrassing email to my new section since it’s contagious to those who’ve not had chickenpox.
@bananafungus @bot001 if they were born before 2005, yes, there’s going to be a cohort who could potentially be vulnerable to chickenpox who didn’t get vaccinated before it became part of the 18 month NIP vaccines.
I’m planning to get the shingles vaccine as soon as my GP gets stock, the rules changed on Nov 1st and now some are eligible for free. I don’t think I am but it’s meant stock has got stretched =p
Yeah I am old enough to not have been vaxxed, so will many of folks I work with.
You’d be doing well to have avoided Chicken Pox as a kid, though. I got Chicken Pox at 20: do not recommend chicken pox as an adult.
@bananafungus tbh everyone should be eligible for either shingles or chickenpox vaccine for free, because otherwise the scenario you are now in is going to crop up repeatedly for quite a while. I got shingles in my early 30s, and was lucky it wasn’t painful, but realised as I’m now older it will get more common to crop up and I might not escape the neuropathy 😬