I got my first vaccination shot today

[LudwigPastorius]

54. Wise move.

Two and a half years ago my insurance company would not pay for the shingles vaccine. I ended up getting a case. It was the most painful thing I've been through. It felt like someone was jamming a red-hot poker into my eye socket.

Since it began late on a Friday afternoon, I couldn't go see my doctor, and ended up in an "urgent care" clinic (quack shack) on Sunday morning. The delay in getting treatment contributed to post-herpetic neuropathy. Essentially the trigeminal nerve in my face/eye area was damaged by the virus, so I'm still experiencing pain to this day.

The kicker is, I found out a few months after the shingles attack, my insurance company had changed their policy and would now fully cover the vaccine.

The moral of the story for anyone reading this is: be like PJMcK, check with your insurance company and get the vaccine. Believe me, you do not want to get shingles!