And that's the thing, myself and everyone I know had chicken pox as a kid but before the shingles shot started being advertised I had never once heard of this disease. It was like it just came from out of nowhere that year and suddenly one adult after another was getting it.
I’ve had shingles twice and was never vaccinated for it.
The two times I had it, I was married to a man that worked in a hospital. Not sure what to think of that.
The pre requisite to shingles is having had the chicken pox. Its part of the herpes family and Lays dormant forever.
So if you had chicken pox and got shingles that's why.
And that's the thing, myself and everyone I know had chicken pox as a kid but before the shingles shot started being advertised I had never once heard of this disease. It was like it just came from out of nowhere that year and suddenly one adult after another was getting it.