horrible experience. I had the rash across my chest and around my side. It hurt like hell and the only thing they had back then was tincture of iodine. So, each day or so I went to the infirmary and the nurse painted on the tincture of iodine. ... which did nothing for the pain, but kept infections away.

and two doctors said you can use them but they won't do any good.
How your flesh can be numb and still hurt to touch it is a new experience.
Nerve pain comes in many flavors. Get the vaccine.

I've had the 'new' shingles vaccine, as well as the old one,
and had chicken pox as a kid (I think.)

Don't recall reaction to the vaccine.

Just checking, because I can't keep track of all the new vaccines they keep coming out with for us older folks, and I don't want to miss one.

I hear there's a new pneumonia one out now, too, but I don't know what it's called. My husband got it recently during a routine doctor's visit. He goes more often than I do, to monitor his diabetes, so he's usually the first one of us to get any new jab.

After the first dose of the new Shingles vaccine. It lasted a couple of days. However, When I had Shingles decades ago, I suffered for 6 weeks.

I asked about it a couple of years ago and it was very $$$. I guess I'll skip that and keep my fingers crossed. Too many expenses and I'm trying to live on SS alone. Guess what, it is nerve wracking.

in 2023.

"Medicare’s Part A and Part B don’t cover shingles vaccinations, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone age 50 and older get the vaccine. Medicare Part B covers some other vaccines as free preventive care, such as flu and pneumonia vaccines.

"A prescription drug plan, such as Medicare Part D bought as an add-on to original Medicare or that is part of a Medicare Advantage plan that provides drug coverage, will pay for the shingles vaccine. These private plans must cover all commercially available vaccines needed to prevent illness, except for those that Part B covers. . . . . . "

https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-qa-tool/does-medicare-cover-shingles-shot/

The severe uncontrollable pain ruined the quality of the end of his life. So I got shingles shots as they became available. No reaction to the first one. Some reaction to the later two shot series. But I had a reaction to a number of COVID vaccines too.

The cost ($425) was pulled from the donut hole. This will cost me the last 2-3 months of the year.