Shingles Vaccine and mask sensitivity

Just because other people had no problems with the shingles vaccine doesn't mean that some people will. I know people who have really had bad reactions to this vaccine, and it's not unexpected, according to the literature. Still better than the actual disease.

I've had vaccines where I've gotten very mild symptoms of the thing the vaccine is meant to prevent. When I got the MMR vaccine, I had mumps symptoms for a few days, very mild, but definitely real. I got it as an adult because when I was a kid they weren't combined vaccines, and I got a mild care of Rubella from that vaccine--I was actually pretty sick. So they never gave me the mumps and measles vaccines. And when I was pregnant with my first child, there was a big outbreak of measles where we lived, so I got my MMR the same time she got hers. MMR is an attenuated virus, and some people, like me, have an exaggerated immune response (ask me about all the vaccines to move to Okinawa when I was 5 years old--yellow fever, typhus, typhoid, smallpox--sick as a dog with every single one, I still remember).

Shingles is NOT a live vaccine, but it can still have adverse side effects.

I wonder if it would help Robin to use a mask liner? Robin does not say what mask she uses, but Pad-a-cheek, run by a member here, uses a soft, satiny material that might be good in this situation. Or you can jury rig your own from a cut up T-shirt. That might help and hopefully the side effects won't last too long.

With respect to So Clean--enough of people beating up on the OP. If she didn't know this before, she knows it now. So just STOP. It's not helping her original question.

Robin only posted once. Back in November, 2023.
Chances are the sensitivity is long gone.
At least she was not trying to plug noclean . . .
I hate people who do that.

jmedwards619 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:35 pm

I have a rare permanent form of shingles, and it comes and goes. I have it under my left eye near my nose, and the mask irritates it. This flare up is entering its third month due to this. I have moved to another room so my snoring doesn't bother my husband.
As I have this rare condition, I cannot take the shingles vaccine. Sigh.

Is it that close to your nose that you can't even use these masks https://bleepsleep.com/