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    Posted by sara.anne on August 10, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    Does anyone know if there are any caveats on getting the shingles vaccine while you are undergoing BCG treatment? Not DURING the BCG, of course, but “in between?”

    Sara Anne


    Diagnosis 2-08 Small papillary TCC; CIS
    BCG; BCG maintenance
    Vice-President, American Bladder Cancer Society
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    Melodie replied 15 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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    melodie

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    August 12, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    All I can say is I had a bag case of the Shingles about 12 years ago and so I should get the vaccine to keep from getting it again; it does re-occur :angry: but I’m holding off as I am just not sure how it will affect me.

    What I can say is….I pray I never get them again…they can be abolutely horrible; thought it was a bug bite so didn’t get an antibiotic….lost two weeks from work. But better than a friend of mine who got it at age 60 and after suffering two years, took a medical retirement.


    Melodie, Indy Pouch, U.W.Medical Center, Seattle, Dr. Paul H. Lange & Jonathan L. Wright
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    nix

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    August 10, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Sara Anne
    I don’t know about the Shingles vaccine, however, last Nov. I had to get a Whooping Cough vaccine, because my we were visiting my newborn grandson. I was worried about the body’d immunity fight the cancer and the vaccine.
    I asked my Internist, Uro and Dr Lamm – all said it was fine, so I did.
    If you are uneasy, ask your doctors or Dr Lamm.

    Nix


    Nancy S
    Ta CIS
    dx Ta 11/06
    dx Ta CIS 10/07
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    August 10, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Good question….they’ve addressed everything but BCG intravesical
    http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/1/45.short?rss=1
    maybe write Merck?
    Pat

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