Covid (Pfizer) booster plus Shingles vaccine

[MissB]

Is this a bad combo to do?

I’ve never had the shingles vaccine.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. I thought to do this myself

But what I read is NOT to get them together. Flu and Covid are okay together, but not shingles. Wait two weeks between.

[MissB]

4. Ok! That's what I'm seeing now too

Now that I’ve booked it of course. I’ll just turn down the shingles at the time.

[onecaliberal]

2. I did my COVID Booster and flu shot on Wednesday.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Covid vax usually causes pain at injection site

I've had a couple friends tell me make sure you don't have to work the next day after a shingles vax.

I need mine.

[sheshe2]

7. With COVID...

I had to wait a year+ before the shots for shingles were available. I called every month and they said "unavailable".

I never knew until I talked with the nurses in my family that shingles is highly contagious. They have to fully suit up when treating a shingles patient.

[sheshe2]

5. I had no problems with my shingles shot and small discomfort from the COVID shot.

I am trying to decide if I get the booster and flu shot at the same time...the flu shot was hard on me with red swelling going down my arm. I think I will do it as two separate shots.

Everyone reacts differently.

Good luck.

[Dawson Leery]

6. It would be wrong to combine vaccines.

Let people chose.

[msongs]

8. shingles vax gave me a low fever for about a day nt

[DURHAM D]

9. Yes nt

[KentuckyWoman]

10. You can. But....

A lot complain the shingles shot really stiffs up an arm for 3 days or more. See if they can even go same arm. Non dominant. If you get the achy arm, then at least you'll have one instead of potentially 2.

[JohnSJ]

11. I wouldn't do it at the same time. I would wait at least two weeks between those

vaccinations

[bamagal62]

12. All I know is the J&J vaccine kicked my ass.

And, then 3 months later I got the shingles vaccine. OMG! Made the J&J seem like a walk in the park. I was so sick with the shingles vaccine and the welt on my arm (4x6 inches) was so sore and hot and didn’t go away for a full week. The shingles vaccine was a whopper and I still have to do the second shot.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I got both the J&J Covid shot, and the Shingles shot

a while back.

Zero side effects for either. Well, okay, the shot themselves were a bit painful, but absolutely nothing after that.

[iemanja]

14. I had the shingles vaccine

but it was a few months after my COVID shots.

[Hekate]

15. My doc said a month between my #2 Moderna and my #2 Shingrex. I am glad I did....

Neither dose of Moderna gave me much problem — like about 24 hours of tiredness, I took some naps and was fine.

Both doses of Shingrex knocked me on my ass for about 4 days, including a hot hard lump on my upper arm the size of my hand that lasted longer than the other symptoms.

Some people here get a reaction like that from their COVID shot — it’s quite individual.

Anyhow, when anti-vaxxers whinge about side effects and reactions from a shot they refuse to get, I wonder if that’s the kind of thing they are worried about.