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chowder66

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14. Poor thing. You sure did get walloped!

Reply to elocs (Reply #13)

Fri Feb 28, 2025, 06:47 PM

Feb 2025

My mom had measles but it didn't affect her that much. She was lucky. All I had was chicken pox and I was pretty little, around 4 or 5. I remember running around without a shirt (it was summer) and lots of calamine lotion on my chicka-itchy's.

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Measles Boosters - Should we consider? [View all] purr-rat beauty Feb 2025 OP

Regardless, CDC recommends measles boosters for immunocompromised and HCWs--so you likely fit on 2 scores; hlthe2b Feb 2025 #1

It can't hurt. Mariana Feb 2025 #2

Does Rebl2 Feb 2025 #3

I am curious about that too purr-rat beauty Feb 2025 #4

May not be available... Kind of a normal thing during JCMach1 Feb 2025 #5

Do you need the vaccine Mossfern Feb 2025 #6

You have lifelong immunity. chowder66 Feb 2025 #7

I had measles in 1953 when I was 9 months & was hospitalized, but I could swear I had it again in grade school elocs Feb 2025 #11

It's said you cannot get measles twice. chowder66 Feb 2025 #12

It could have been rubella which is not measles even though it's known as elocs Feb 2025 #13

Poor thing. You sure did get walloped! chowder66 Feb 2025 #14

My doctor said no Mariana Mar 2025 #15

I only found out I never had the MMR vaccine in 2019 when there was an outbreak in L.A. chowder66 Feb 2025 #8

I was born in 1958 phylny Feb 2025 #9

Some people were given the measles vaccine too early, before 12 months of age. Mariana Mar 2025 #16

Get your measles titer checked. Your PCP can Ilsa Feb 2025 #10