And the next morning, I couldn’t lift my Shingles shot arm and I was walking around like a lopsided orangutan with my knuckles dragging on the floor. My husband, of course, thought I was being a ...

One patient of mine with shingles on his forearm switched for several weeks to wearing a short-sleeved shirt to the office, something he never had worn to work before.

The lifetime risk of developing shingles is 30%. It is estimated that 99.5% of the U.S. population over age 40 is at risk for shingles. It might begin with an inexplicable pain on one side of the ...

Shingles, on the other hand, does not come about due to exposure, but due to a person’s immune system failing to keep the virus (which stays in the body forever) under control.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Shingles are becoming an issue for people younger and younger. Long considered a problem for people over 50, more and more doctors are seeing it in younger patients.

I’ve had the flu vaccine and the aftershot for that one isn’t bad at all, but I’d heard that the aftermath of the Shingles shot is bad. Like, your arm hurts so much you can’t lift it to ...