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No! The opposite thing is true. Getting chickenpox as a kid drastically increases your likelihood of getting shingles as an adult. The initial chickenpox infect
by tptacek 4mo ago
No! The opposite thing is true. Getting chickenpox as a kid drastically increases your likelihood of getting shingles as an adult. The initial chickenpox infection is the mechanism by which you're set up for shingles: you get it, fight it back, and it remains dormant in your nerves. Shingles is not simply chickenpox; it's the secondary infection you get from a resurgent zoster outbreak based in your nerves.
Don't get chickenpox.
- Jolter 4mo agoWell, now… I can tell you second hand that catching chicken pox as an adult is no picnic either.
- NetMageSCW 4mo agoThe original question had nothing to do with getting Chickenpox or Shingles.
- saghm 4mo agoI got chickenpox and shingles as a kid. I was young enough to not remember the chicken pox (which I I think I got from one of my older siblings), and then in second grade I got the shingles, which I had never even heard of at the time. As a late millennial (of parents who were not antivax by any means) I imagine if I were even a few years younger I probably would have gotten the chickenpox vaccine and been able to skip both.
- MrDresden 4mo agoI just recently got a blood test to confirm if I ever had gotten chickenpox as a child (my mother didn't remember if I had). Sadly it came back positive for antibodies. I was really hoping I had somehow evaded it, and could get the vaccine as an adult.