Kat's Skyrizi journey

[Caroline]

Thank you Kat, I've never been offered it. I did get chicken pox in my 30s that wasn't very nice, I don't know if it make me immune from shingle or not.

Yes, actually you don't get shingles if you have NOT had chickenpox (if I understand correctly).  It's one of the reasons I never got the vaccine as I didn't think I ever had chickenpox but my primary doctor said it's odd for adults not to have had it so did a blood test and seems that I did indeed have chickenpox.  After that the virus lives inside your body.  Also, you can get shingles more than once.

Don't want to take your thread off topic but that is very interesting. I was going to visit friends one day and they asked if I'd had chicken pox as their children had it, I phoned my Mum and she said yes you will be fine as you had it as a baby.

However a few days after visiting my friends I was covered and to cut a long story short I went to see my doctor and he confirmed it was chicken pox, but although my records showed I had it as a baby my immune system hadn't built up enough immunity. 

Nope I'm still none the wiser are you saying I could still get shingles. ?

*Again sorry, I will split posts in this thread if you wish.

Sorry in advance….

The chicken pox virus. (With us they call it water pox). Is in fact the Herpes Zoster virus. And once in the body it stays there and can be activated again. I though you could not be immunised for it, but als you, Kat, say that there is a vaccine, then maybe it can. I did not know that.