Rispardone can have side affects. It's used to help certain mental dissorders like schitzophrenia an bi/polar dissorder. If it lowers your immune system then it could trigger herpes or shingles break outs. So you may want to talk to your doctor, let them know you have herpes and or shingles, also talk to them about getting antiviral medication to help suppress break outs. See related link for more info on the shot.
Herpes zoster causes shingles.
Shingles is also called herpes zoster
Shingles is another name for herpes zoster.
For the shingles on a roof, "las tejas" For the disease, "herpes zóster"
Shingles IS caused by Herpes Zoster virus and it affects the nerves.
Shingles is a herpes virus know as chicken pox (herpes zoster) when it occurs as a child. When it reoccurs in an adult it is called shingles. Chicken pox is contagious but Shingles is not contagious if you had Chicken pox as a child. The most dangerous effect of herpes zoster is when the lesions occur on your retina.
Herpes zooster can cause shingles. This type of herpes causes chicken pox. It's slightly different then the herpes that causes cold sores and genital herpes. If you have had chicken pox as a child then you could possibly get shingles later in life.
Shingles is caused by a virus called Herpes Zoster. It is basically the result of chicken pox that has been dormant for years. It emerges years later as shingles.
Herpes zoster, which literally means "girdle herpes," is also known as shingles. It gets its name from the fact that the waist is a common location for an outbreak. Shingles is caused by a reactivation of chickenpox virus (varicella zoster virus).
A herpesvirus that causes shingles and chickenpox, also known as 'shingles'.
Shingles is also called herpes zoster
I checked with my pharmacist and the answer is NO. I need to stop taking valtrex for 30 days and then get the shot. Valtrex kills the virus and since the vaccine has some live virus in it, the valtrex could compromise the point of getting the vaccine. That said, an incident or 2 of herpes is tolerable to the possibility of getting shingles. Shingles has a higher pain and inconvenience factor than a herpes break out. That is my humble opinion.