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General Category => AN Issues => Topic started by: ChipsFL on August 16, 2012, 06:17:53 pm

Title: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: ChipsFL on August 16, 2012, 06:17:53 pm

Anyone gotten the vaccine ? Noticed on the FDA site it said, "Zostavax is a live vaccine and should not be given to individuals who have a weakened immune system caused by treatments that they are taking such as radiation, a class of drugs called corticosteroids, or .................... "

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: james e on August 19, 2012, 03:26:28 am

Talk to your doctor. I had the vaccine 2 years ago, 6 months after my surgery, and there were no complications, but my immune system was not compromised.

James

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: JerseyGirl2 on August 19, 2012, 06:11:36 am

Received that vaccine a couple of years ago -- about two years post-AN surgery -- and had no problems.

Catherine (Jersey Girl 2)

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: CHD63 on August 19, 2012, 06:48:12 am

Had mine in Fall, 2007 ..... three months before I was diagnosed with an AN ..... hmmmmmmm???

No reason whatsoever to connect the two, however.

Clarice

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: sunfish on August 20, 2012, 07:51:19 am

I had shingles the month after I was diagnosed with the AN, and a month before CK.  I didn't even know there WAS a vaccine for shingles.  Will have to learn more about this . . .

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: leapyrtwins on August 24, 2012, 06:28:41 pm

I was vaccinated last year with no problem.

I'm a little over 5 years post op.

As James suggested, you should ask your doctor.

Jan

Title: Re: CK & Zostavax (Shingles Vaccine)
Post by: skipg on August 24, 2012, 06:33:03 pm

Went for my yearly physical (no co-pay now, thank you Obamacare) and the doc suggested the shingles vaccine. I bit and had it with no aftereffects. So now I am protected, if they only had an anti-AN vaccine.
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