Shingles vaccine - first stab
Jul. 7th, 2023 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithSo. My Mom came down with shingles three weeks ago, but caught it soon enough so that the meds stopped it. She had one (pretty ugly) blister on her back. She said it felt like when a cold sore blister is forming, and then what it feels like when a blister gets a grip. (Painful and yucko, for those who don't know.)
THEN. An old family friend posted a picture of her face. The blisters are all down one side of her face, and in that eye. I'm trying to imagine cold sores on my eyeball, and nonononono. About four years ago a cousin got it in one ear - and it appears to have led to a stroke. Nonononono.
So I got the first shingles stab.
Shingles vaccine comes in two stabs, at least two months and up to six months apart.
Some of the cost is covered by my blue cross. Each stab is regularly $165.00 CDN. With blue cross help the first one was $58.94 CDN. To get the blue cross help, I need a doctor's prescription. Although BC has opened up pharmacists to prescribe a number of things (including shingles vaccine), I am not sure that my blue cross plan is on board with that yet, so I will just ask my doctor.
Merciful heck.
THEN. An old family friend posted a picture of her face. The blisters are all down one side of her face, and in that eye. I'm trying to imagine cold sores on my eyeball, and nonononono. About four years ago a cousin got it in one ear - and it appears to have led to a stroke. Nonononono.
So I got the first shingles stab.
Shingles vaccine comes in two stabs, at least two months and up to six months apart.
Some of the cost is covered by my blue cross. Each stab is regularly $165.00 CDN. With blue cross help the first one was $58.94 CDN. To get the blue cross help, I need a doctor's prescription. Although BC has opened up pharmacists to prescribe a number of things (including shingles vaccine), I am not sure that my blue cross plan is on board with that yet, so I will just ask my doctor.
Merciful heck.
