Gotta have those ED Meds! (Wish I could see better, but not necessarily for this thread! Hahaha).
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I see one for shingles and one for menopause symptoms.
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Thatās ok. I can always hit the pharmacy again when Iām there next, and Iām enjoying everyoneās input here for now 
Ug, shingles. Got that at age 26. Saw almost 30 kids in one week with chicken pox (early-mid 1990s, so pre-varivax timeline). Told the head clinic doc I thought they were coming, as I could feel the āheadacheā like pain under my skin.
He poo-poohed me but they erupted a couple of days later, all down my right side from shoulder to lower leg. Fun, fun, fun. I did find out from that, that plain ibuprofen was shitloads better than opioids for that particular pain, at least for me.
Looking forward to my next episode of shingles down the other (left) side (itās more common to get it 2x if youāve had it early like I did) now that Iām in my 60s.
You canāt get a vax after youāve had it?
I got mine a year or so ago, just after a friend a little younger (so, 30s 
) came down with them.
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I got the vaccine, so Iām hopeful to avoid it.
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I do the think it (Varivax) can help, but Iām just pissed about the whole vax industry. Remember Iām drunk. But so much of the vax industry is $$$ marketing vs actually medically helping.
Vaccines in general have saved millions of lives (or livelihoods), whether polio or measles. But Iāll have to dig to find it, thereās an old study reported on by and lead-authored by Dr. Fauci indicating that our current influenza vaccines, being less than about 1/3 efficacy, should never have been approved.
Thatās not my particular problem with the chicken pox/varivax stuff, as itās much higher efficacy than any of the flu vaccines (90+ percent for avoiding chicken pox in kids, so great - so far as that goes).
The problem here (US, e.g.) is that weāve created an adult population whoāve never had chicken pox who, as vaccine immunity wanes (and it does wane, much more than āI had the chicken pox itselfā immunity does), may in 10+ years start becoming amenable to chicken pox disease versus than those who got it naturally. When they first made it mandatory for school attendance, we were told it would be one dose and done - immunity. Then later they said the kids had to have boosters. Now they say it doesnāt last as long as they thought, even after that booster.
And chicken pox as an adult is much more debilitating than childhood disease.
So we think weāre doing a good thing, in creating a large cohort of ānever-had-chicken-pox-adultsā but Iām not sure we are. Time will tell.
Sorry for the drink rant. Re vax for later varicella episodes, yes, I should probably get it,
Yes, you can. I got a mild case of shingles about 2 months before I had planned to get the Shingrix vaccine. Had to wait another 6 months before I could get the first shot of two.
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Well, Iāll take a shingles vax over shingles any day 
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Agree.
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I honestly do not understand what compels people to attend social events when they know they are sick with the crud and possibly still contagious.
Itās already damn near impossible to avoid getting a cold during the holiday season ā what with all the parties and family gatherings, and one can of course be unknowingly carrying a virus, i.e. before any symptoms arise.
That said, Iām pretty sure I have my current sickies to blame on a sneezing guest at the Festivus party we went to (the timing tracks).
Pretty please, if yer sick or in doubt: sit it out. The other guests (and hosts) will be incredibly grateful for your choice to stay home, and you can get together when yer better 
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Befitting for the penultimate day of The Most Craptacular Year in recent memory: my PIC was inspired to make 00 pizza dough for NYD last night. The dough stuck to the BLADES so he reaches in an cuts his FU finger on the top and the side 
It had not stopped bleeding after an hour of being wrapped in a paper towel with lotsa pressure from masking tape 
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Luckily, I remembered my own āchoppedā mishap from last yearās Thxgiving or Xmas Day, which had me spend a few hours in the ER. I found some non-stick gauze to bunch up and put beneath a bandaid, which finally did the trick.
Are we ready for 2026? 
I am. Not that I trust it to be much betterā¦
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Thatās what I used for my forefingerās nail in the Great Thanksgiving Knife Incident of 2011 (after my sister told me about the non-stick gauze). YIKES! We need to wrap the both of you in bubble wrap for 2026!
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Our good buddy once gifted me a bubble wrap suit for one of my bdays 
Maybe I shoulda kept it?
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I use nosebleed-stopping plugs. They clot the blood and donāt stick.
