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Coincidentally I stumbled across this article suggesting that Covid 19 might induce shingles flare ups in some people. Possibly due to raising stress levels.
“It seems that COVID‐19 infection, as an acute illness with its associated physical and emotional stress, might represent the triggering factor for the development of HZO in our patients,”
I'd assume you would be able to find a list of observed aide effects from the Pfizer trials somewhere. Not sure where to look though. No idea whether Covid vaccines have been found to trigger flare ups in shingles patients.
https://www.drugtopics.com/view/covid-19-and-herpes-zoster-co-infections-identified
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not a medical type. Just happened upon that article when reading about something else.
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Has anyone on here had older friends/relatives/parents react incredibly badly to the vaccine?
My parents (mid 70's) received the Pfizer vaccine nearly 6 weeks ago.
My father didn't get anything worse than a sore arm, whereas my mother took ill in the evening of the injection and from then on presented what her GP said was the worst case of shingles they'd ever seen. Her symptoms worsened to the point she was taken to hospital for overnight observation two weeks back.
The local GP was initially keen to get her notes passed to the vaccination centre has now said words to the effect, you may have this for a year, deal with it.
Any medical types on LFGSS who can recommend a course of action for massively acute shingles? She was given an antiviral by the GP a few days after the vaccine reaction, but only painkillers thereafter.
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