Below is C&P of remark made by friend on facebook.
So - could it be a US reject?
No
I was offered it and looked it up on the internet.
The one we’re being offered is no longer used in the USA and doesn’t sound particularly effective.
Contrary to what I was told, it is NOT a one off.
They probably got it cheap from the US or somewhere else it was being chucked out!
But surely all drugs in the UK must be approved by NICE first.
Having suffered ophthalmic shingles back in the late 1990s, I would take the jab. As Keezoy rightly points out, the pain is unbearable. I had to visit Moorfields eye hospital for 11 months, with steroid and other drops, all that time. They did regular eye screening to make sure all inflammation had gone down. The pressure in the eye was double the normal. I was told by Moorfields I was hours away from suffering permanent eye damage! I credited the locum GP in my surgery who saw me on Christmas Eve and sent me straight there with a letter, and an accurate diagnosis, for saving my sight.
I had a small patch of shingles appear on my torso a couple of days before a routine doctor’s appointment (back when you could get them 
). I asked what this itchy little patch was, he said shingles and prescribed a week’s course of strong antiviral tablets which were the size of gob-stoppers. I had to take 5 per day! The shingles cleared up but I still get the occasional itch where the patch was.
We had our shingles vac a few years ago. Mr Mags had two bouts of shingles previously and he suffered a lot.
I personally would recommend it after seeing it, also I once had an Aunt who had shingles in her eyes which left her temporarily blind for weeks.
Thanks everybody. I think I’m persuaded.
I’m going to ring the surgery & book.
Good Carol, just know a close friend how suffered the Shingles all around his middle and he really did get a lot of pain and the itching he said was bad as well…I had never heard of a vaccine for Shingles, so good to know this now.
Just checked your profile for where you are…Sydney how lovely…Guess you might get Aveeno Range of Ointments and Creams also as they contain Colloidal Oatmeal which is a real soother and moisturise’s also. Gentle as ok for 3 months upwards babes as well.
Its Johnson and johnson by the way…hoping you get some relief, sometime soon…
Hubby had his a couple of years ago, but i’ve never been offered it , I would take if I was offered it…shingles seems to be a very painful illness
I’ve made an appointment.
Tony & I for for the vaccination a week tomorrow.
I had my shingles vaccine ages ago - no problem with it. Get it done
Neither Tony nor myself got the shingles jab we went for this morning.
When we got there the queue of people spread right round the carpark. I would estimate I had 100 people in front of me. Tony took one look at the queue & decided not to bother. I decided to stick it out so I joined the queue & spent the next 35 minutes chatting to a woman in front of me.
Finally it was my turn - I went in the room - The clinician explained that it was a live vaccine & side effects are likely. She listed them which included tiredness, rash etc. Then she said they aren’t suitable for people with auto immune illnesses. I said ‘But I’ve got an auto immune illness - I’ve got PMR & take steroids for it every day’ At that point she apologised & told me it best I don’t have it then!
Oh well at least I got to post my letter of complaint about my fight with the receptionist yesterday!
Aww Carol, what a waste of time queuing up! I know you put in your letter, and that’s good, but surely they could have advised you beforehand, saving you and Tony hanging about!
I had shingles some years ago followed by post-herpetic neuralgia in my spine which went on for months ,both were horrible and something I never wish to repeat .
My neighbour had the same problem .
As soon as the shingles vaccine was available I was first in the queue to have it.
My Dad had shingles in his leg and lost all feeling from the knee like Meg it is not something I would want to see repeated. However understand your issue Carol with auto immune.
I’m really wary of injections but was willing to have the shingles one after listening to the advice on here.
What a let down to be told I can’t have it.
I would be more grateful she warned me about the auto-immune response and didn’t just go ahead and do it!
Yes of course Mups. I’m very grateful I was warned about it.
Goes to show they don’t look at medical records when they send for you or I wouldn’t have been summoned.
Good point.
They could have saved your time and their own.
Yesterday a call from the Health Centre invited me to have the Shingles vaccination as I qualified. I was very dubious about yet another vaccination and informed the caller of this. Then she asked if I had ever had mumps, measles or chickenpox as a child. No idea I told her, that was over six decades ago now so how am I supposed to remember that? Anyway, I declined the offer but when asked I did agree to be kept on the register so as to consider the next invitation. At the moment I just cannot take any more of this, vaccination after vaccination and still the covid booster to have and next week the annual 'flu jab is leaving me feeling like a pin cushion and here I am needle phobic too!
