@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 😬
Yeah I am old enough to not have been vaxxed, so will many of folks I work with.
@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 😬
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.