Best take the Shingrix vaccine — just hours before your day(s) off

© 2019 Peter Free

 

25 January 2019

 

 

Plan the timing of your Shingrix vaccinations

 

Shingrix may not be just another vaccine with comparatively mild after-shot effects.

 

My wife and I (neither of us wimps) found that the doses knocked us into influenza-level aches, pains, fever, headache and "don't wanna do nothing" malaise.

 

These symptoms kicked in about 8 to 12 hours after receiving each dose.

 

Manufacturer GSK is up front about after-effects on its website. However, most of us reading those are accustomed to usually mild versions of post-vaccine symptoms. I did not anticipate the "lie around" gravity of the Shingrix aftermath.

 

Schedule your shots accordingly.

 

 

The moral? — Had we to do the doses over again . . .

 

. . .we would get the Shingrix doses at lunch on the equivalent of a work Friday.

 

Then use the weekend to recuperate. Otherwise, you might be achingly sorry.

 

The happy thing is that (with noticeable after-effects like these) you know your immune system is reacting as designed.