You can never have enough...

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... I'm still humming and haaing over the shingles one ... yet to ask doctor about it!

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I was dithering about it for ages.  What finally tipped the balance in favour of getting the vaccine was that I came down with nerve pain, which is horrible.  That made me understand what my GP meant when she said that although I wasn't especially at risk of shingles it is an awful disease which can have lasting consequences including post-herpetic nerve pain and eye damage.     The cost is the greatest hurdle but it can be split into two payments as there are two vaccinations required, at least two months apart.

I had no side-effects from the vaccination other than mild pain in the arm.