Hello! In my country, they're vaccinating people over 60 against shingles. I called my doctor to ask if I could get the vaccine since I have Meniere's disease, but she said the protocol doesn't include our condition as an exception. It doesn't bother me, I was vaccinated as a child, but I wanted to know if there's any information or research linking this vaccine to Meniere's disease in adults and if it has shown improvement? After all, antiviral medications do have an effect, and as a shock therapy, they were the only thing that stopped my attacks (later I gradually switched to lysine to reduce my medication intake).
There are reports of the shingles vaccine actually causing MD. There are two shingles vaccines, and older one and the new one used today. I talked to my doctor about it and he said there is not a lot known about the shingles vaccine and MD. I can always get the vaccine at the first sign of shingles. So for now I'm going to punt.
I had my first shingles vaccine dose (Shingrix is what we get in New Zealand) in July & the second dose two days ago with no MD side affects that I noticed.
Recent research (reported in the Journal Cell & University in the UK) suggests the shingles vaccine - two doses of which are rec. for adults 50 and older may help peaple with dementia were almost 30 % less likely to die of dementia ( also cognitively healthy people who received the vaccines were less likely to develop impairement, an early symptomatic phase before dementia...... as for MD I have not come across any reports whatsoever