Paralyzed diaphragm & shingles vaccine

[EmJa]

My husband has been diagnosed with a paralyzed diaphragm.  No trauma but he did have the shingles vaccine approximately 2 weeks before experiencing shortness of breath and then diagnosed with paralyzed diaphragm.  Somewhere in my research I notice an article stating that shingles could affect the phrenic nerve. I was just wondering if there is a possibility that the virus in the vaccine could have somehow affected my husbands phrenic nerve and the subsequent paralyzed diaphragm.  Thank you for any help you can give me.

[rebe232]

My father recently had the shingle shot vaccine and is now showing signs of bells palsy, I would like to add he has a severe allergy to dyes and I noticed looking at other web sites that he should not have had this shot due to this allergy. Please any information would be helpful.

[harrietwilson642]

I don't know anything about a paralyzed diaghram.  I have had chicken pox as a child, got shingles (paralyzing shingles - could not walk) some years ago.  I am having flair ups now and feel like I am going to get shingles again.  Two years ago the shot came out, and although I was eligible through my RX plan to get the shot FREE, I ran away from it due to it not having had enough studies about it.  I wanted to know, and they could not tell me, if it was good for someone who already had shingles.  I feel helpless as to what to do.  I had a prescription from an MD for a shot which I gave to Walgreens.  I was afraid to take the shot and left the script at the pharmacy.  It expired in 2009.  I am now planning to take the shot.  I can only hope and pray I do not get full blown shingles again.  I would rather have another hysterectomy than have shingles again.