Here is some medical advice, even though you didn’t ask. If you have ever had chicken pox (and a lot of my fellow boomers did as kids, as we didn’t have a vaccine for it), go get a shingles vaccine. Go today. Now. Do not wait.
I am in the tail end of a shingles breakout, because I didn’t listen to my lovely wife and never had the vaccine. (I was in an anti-vax mode after getting the COVID shots and still getting COVID three months later). Shingles sucks so much, I can’t even begin to explain how awful it can be. I’m at the end of three weeks with it and it’s slowly healing. Shingles burn. They itch on the inside, where you cannot scratch. The rash is awful and as it heals, it scabs up. Shingles is contagious to people who never had chicken pox, the chicken pox vaccine or the shingles vaccine – they will get chicken pox, not shingles.
I can get the vaccine, but I have to wait a few months until I’m clear. I’ll be there as soon as I can.
Go do it now. Today.