Hank Green has shingles
3Hank Green is 45.
/youtube scishow 18 hours
Also you should know who hank green is/what scishow is cause. It’s very good.
And
/youtube Hank green comedy special
But the recommended age for shingles vaccine is not till 50. I really need to start seeing a doctor for the first time in 20 years lol
Do not want
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Just some info from the Guardian
Strong evidence’ of lowered dementia risk: the benefits of shingles vaccination
A growing body of evidence suggests the vaccine may also lower risk of stroke and heart attack
@jkawaguchi would like the source link but I mean everyone who had chicken pox should get the shingles vaccine. Which has come up on meh before. It’s interesting both he and his wife got it that early way before the recommendation for the vaccine.
The under 40 group probably are safe for the most part
Granted cancer and chemo may have messed with him a little. I think my sister got it early and she only 4 years older than me lol they maybe should lower that recommendation
@unksol
You can Google The Guardian and search for the article on their website. Also, cancer treatment will definitely affect your immune systems and you need to discuss with your doctor what vaccines you should get and when. My grandson has/had leukemia and has gotten all his childhood vaccinations again plus Covid & pneumonia & RSV. He finished chemo at 12 and is 17 now. Still wears a mask in public settings. He’s doing great now but it was hell on 4 year old to get diagnosed with cancer on Christmas Eve!
Sorry I can’t get the link to work
@jkawaguchi yikes. That would be a sucky Christmas. Glad he’s doing ok
@jkawaguchi
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/mar/17/shingles-vaccination-benefits-dementia-risk
The guardian will of course ask you for funding support but you can click through the support options and still read it
@jkawaguchi @unksol I’d bet chemo had something to do with it as your immune system is shot to hell during that. I got shingles during chemo. 5 nerve roots. Lasted 6 months with some residual problems. No fun.
Thank goodness it’s not cancer (again).
/showme Unhappy human covered in little roof shingles.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Unhappy human covered in little roof shingles.”
I never had chicken pox or measles. Do I still need the vaccine?
/8ball Do I need shingles vaccine?
My sources say no
@cfg83
Look up what getting the disease does to you then decide if it’s worth the chance. Safety belt or no safety belt? Your choice and your risk but that choice affects all the people around you especially the very young and old as well as people who have immune compromised systems. Just a thought point no judgment.
@jkawaguchi Thanks. I am pretty sure I need it anyway. I saw the effect on my Dad. Agony.
@cfg83 check out the article in The Guardian about the vaccine and how it looks like it might help prevent or delay dementia. It’s a free article, Google it to read it. I tried but couldn’t get the link to work. Hope your dad wasn’t scared too much from the disease out brake.
Good health to you and yours.
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi
This article?
Per that article,
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick
And it’s basically dead now because of the chicken pox vaccine. That’s why most people under 40 don’t need a shingles vaccine.
I think if you never had it and you didn’t get the chicken pox vaccine… You would just get the the chicken pox vaccine to cover your ass lol.
But EVERYONE got it when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. when one kid got it we will all got it lol. If theyd pushed that vaccine a little harder/sooner…
@jkawaguchi @phendrick Thank you. My friend told me that if I am exposed to chicken pox as an adult, it’s pretty dangerous, so I may pull the trigger anyway.
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick You’d need to pull the trigger on the chicken pox vaccination. The shingles vaccination won’t help you not catch chicken pox.
@jkawaguchi I’d forgotten about the dementia angle but I heard that too.
@jkawaguchi @phendrick Here is another one from bbc.com …
New shingles vaccine may help delay dementia, study suggests
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99weq1ylzvo
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi yeah… I forget why but chicken pox is more dangerous to adults. Kids kinda shrugged it off . But catching it as an adult can be way more serious… But that should have been near zero because it was stomped out.
But we are just letting measles loose again/not medical advice. Check with your doctor
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick I mean any disease is going to impact you in some way. Especially a virus that hides in your nervous system. Probably not great? But still causation vs correlation.
I would not think this was related to Alzheimer’s which… Really can’t have a single cause. But the guardian and the BBC do generally better reporting than the click bait “scientific study says blah”.
Wait for the peer review reporters… This is how the autism vaccine myth started
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick As for the “You cannot get shingles if you have not had chickenpox” statement, bear in mind that many chickenpox infections produce few or no actual symptoms and are therefore undiagnosed. Ergo, you may have had it and be unaware of that fact.
Knowing this, do you still want to roll the dice given that the vaccine has an extremely low risk in itself?
I went for the vax.
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi
Well and obviously if you travel out side the US there are some things that are not eradicated. In specific countries. You need to vaccinated for. But it’s dead in the US. But we absolutely could and were helping till DOGE shut down US AIDE
Then there’s the anti vaccine lies in the US causing measles flair ups
You should definitely get a tetanus shot if you haven’t caused those only last 10 years
@jkawaguchi @phendrick @werehatrack Yeah, I need the shots. Nothing is easy.
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick @werehatrack
/youtube shots shots shots
@jkawaguchi @phendrick @unksol @werehatrack Wow. I need to change my pharmacy.
@cfg83 @jkawaguchi @phendrick @werehatrack IDK. Might be some STDs at that kind
As for the link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and developmental issues in children, which Wakefield termed “autistic enterocolitis”.
Fraud and Retraction: The study was later found to be fraudulent and based on falsified data. The paper was fully retracted in 2010.
Consequences: Wakefield was found to have acted against the best interests of patients, failed in his duties as a consultant, and was dishonest. In May 2010, he was struck off the UK medical register and is no longer allowed to practice as a doctor.
Journalist Investigation: Investigative journalist Brian Deer was instrumental in uncovering the fraud, revealing that Wakefield had undisclosed conflicts of interest, including funding from lawyers who were looking to sue vaccine manufacturers.
Wikipedia
Note: The scientific consensus, based on studies involving hundreds of thousands of children, is that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
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@jkawaguchi Exactly. Also, Wakefield stood to make millions via the sale of a test kit to detect the enterocolitis that he alleged was one of the roots of autism, a supposed link which no valid research has even hinted at.
Brian Deer bloody well deserves a position on the King’s List for Honours. At least he’s been recognised by journalism awards and an honorary Doctorate from York St John University.
@jkawaguchi @werehatrack yea lol I didn’t really mean to drag in vaccines in general. But true.
More having a getting old(er) moment and shingles has come up before on meh. And all the preventative stuff for almost everything is like 10 years out at 50.
But he got them at 45 lol. Maybe do some things sooner. Also he offhand mentioned his wife got shingles while pregnant so. That implies some age things. Also… What A horrible time to get them…
IDK. Do not want lol
@jkawaguchi @unksol @werehatrack I had chicken pox as a child. Years later, I observed a coworker who developed shingles while he was going through a nasty divorce (read: lots of stress). It was not pretty. So getting the shingles vaccine was a no-brainer for me.
@jkawaguchi @macromeh @werehatrack yea one of the triggers seams to be stress. Which can also cause a week immune system. Sleep problems. Who isn’t stressed these days?