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With Medicare, it was $45 per dose - 2 doses 6 month apart.
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I had shingles down my sciatic nerve in 2006. Because I was out of the country, I didn't get to my doctor until it was too late to use drugs. Consequently, I have PHN (Post Herpetic Neuralgia) forever. Symptoms like what you describe down my leg and...
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If you had chicken pox as a child - that virus is still in your body lying dormant. If, like me, you are exposed to someone who has chicken pox; then, stressed or not, your virus very well could re-activate as shingles.I was visiting family & friend...
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Yes - the new vacvine is 10x more effective than the first one. I have already had the first dose and am awaiting the second. The pharmaceutical industry, in its infinite wisdom, has done such a good job of promoting the Shindrix vaccine, that they ...
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I currently have post herpetic neuralgia from shingles. Is this new vaccine made with a live virus? That is the reason my doctor advised AGAINST the previous vaccine.Is this new one made with LIVE VIRUS?
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With Medicare, it was $45 per dose - 2 doses 6 month apart.
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I had shingles down my sciatic nerve in 2006. Because I was out of the country, I didn't get to my doctor until it was too late to use drugs. Consequently, I have PHN (Post Herpetic Neuralgia) forever. Symptoms like what you describe down my leg and...
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If you had chicken pox as a child - that virus is still in your body lying dormant. If, like me, you are exposed to someone who has chicken pox; then, stressed or not, your virus very well could re-activate as shingles.I was visiting family & friend...
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Yes - the new vacvine is 10x more effective than the first one. I have already had the first dose and am awaiting the second. The pharmaceutical industry, in its infinite wisdom, has done such a good job of promoting the Shindrix vaccine, that they ...
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I currently have post herpetic neuralgia from shingles. Is this new vaccine made with a live virus? That is the reason my doctor advised AGAINST the previous vaccine.Is this new one made with LIVE VIRUS?
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With Medicare, it was $45 per dose - 2 doses 6 month apart.
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I had shingles down my sciatic nerve in 2006. Because I was out of the country, I didn't get to my doctor until it was too late to use drugs. Consequently, I have PHN (Post Herpetic Neuralgia) forever. Symptoms like what you describe down my leg and...
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If you had chicken pox as a child - that virus is still in your body lying dormant. If, like me, you are exposed to someone who has chicken pox; then, stressed or not, your virus very well could re-activate as shingles.I was visiting family & friend...
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Yes - the new vacvine is 10x more effective than the first one. I have already had the first dose and am awaiting the second. The pharmaceutical industry, in its infinite wisdom, has done such a good job of promoting the Shindrix vaccine, that they ...
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I currently have post herpetic neuralgia from shingles. Is this new vaccine made with a live virus? That is the reason my doctor advised AGAINST the previous vaccine.Is this new one made with LIVE VIRUS?
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