Comment by lliamander
2 years ago
For people who have already had chickenpox/shingles, is there any potential benefit from getting the vaccine?
2 years ago
For people who have already had chickenpox/shingles, is there any potential benefit from getting the vaccine?
Shingles is the latent chickenpox you already were infected with reactivating so people who already had chickenpox is exactly who the vaccine is for.
You can have shingles multiple times, any time the virus reactivates.
Yes. Shingles is effectively chronic.
The vaccine reduces the likelihood of future flare-ups as well as their severity.