Dear autoimmunies-- do you get shingles vaccine?

Boomer13
Boomer13 Member Posts: 1,931
edited 11. Nov 2013, 11:45 in Living with Arthritis archive
As I contemplate going on anti-TNF's sometime in the next few months, I came across info about shingles vaccine. I know healthy folks don't get this vaccine until later in life, but what about us immuno-challenged types?
I had severe chicken pox when I was forty and don't want to re-visit the virus in any way, shape, or form ever, if possible.

I know I'm supposed to get vaccines before I start anti-TNF's, is this one of those? (I will check with my doctor next visit, of course).

Thank you in advance,
Anna

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  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Anna,I posed the same question a few weeks ago and was told as the vaccine is a live one auto immunies should not have it indeed we should avoid people with shingles. Mig
  • Boomer13
    Boomer13 Member Posts: 1,931
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks Mig. That's settled then, I didn't realise it was a live virus vaccine.

    Anna
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yup, it is. I was not given some 'crucial' innoculations in my childhood for the same 'live' reason but I cannot remember what they were; I was too young to know or care. And I'm still here. :? DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • Susiesoo
    Susiesoo Member Posts: 358
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Shingles vaccine has never been mentioned to me.

    Susie
  • dibdab
    dibdab Member Posts: 1,498
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I was told it's a no go for us autoimmuners when I went for my flu jab.

    Deb x

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