How many DUers have had measles and/or chicken pox?

[11 Bravo]

I'm an old fart (64). The vaccines were unavailable when I was a child, and I contracted both diseases. I don't recall either illness as being particularly onerous (although the chicken pox itched like a sonuvabitch). But now that it's in the news, I wonder how many others actually contracted either disease.
(And, of course, both of our sons, born in the 90's, were inoculated, and are hopefully immune. The anti-vaxxers are fucking nuts!)

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I had chicken pox. No measles though. Of course, now I have to worry about shingles.

Oh, wait....there is a vaccine for that. Hopefully, it doesn't cause adult-onset autism.

[elleng]

6. I had the shingles vaccine,

and don't THINK I got autism as a result.

[lastlib]

126. my mother got the shingles vaccine...

...and less than six months later, got--you guessed it--shingles! Itched like a futhermucker, she said!

[elleng]

129. DAMN! AWFUL!

My Dad got shingles, I don't know whether or not he had had the vaccine. He was very uncomfortable.

[csziggy]

81. Same here - and I'm worried the shingles vaccine won't work for me

As a child I had chicken pox, mumps and whooping cough. No measles that I remember. But every vaccine my mother could get was stuck into all us kids.

I'm concerned about shingles even though I've had the vaccine. I have a resident herpes zoster infection in my left hand. My doctor and I were hoping that the shingles vaccine would add to my resistance to that infection since it is the same virus. But since getting the shingles vaccination, that infection has flared three times so we are no longer counting on it. Goody.

[Blue_In_AK]

90. I have a resident herpes zoster on my left ear that pops up every once in a while,

and I've resisted the shingles vaccine for the same reason. I've learned ways to minimize what I have, so I don't want to risk making things worse.

[csziggy]

141. The flares were not related to when I got the shingles vaccine

It's just a toss up whether the shingles vaccine will prevent shingles in me later on. Having watched my father go through shingles and knowing the pain from that one small area that hosted the herpes zoster virus, I hope that the shingles vaccine will prevent a full bore shingles attack. If it doesn't, oh well.

[dixiegrrrrl]

144. There is an amino acid that seems very effective in preventing herpes outbreaks.

L-Lysine...500 mg 3-4 times a week. Stops cold sores from breaking out.
I took it when I got shingles but cannot say if it was effective since I had a very bad outbreak.
but have not had any cold sores for years by taking it.

[csziggy]

149. Someone recommended it a few weeks back

But none of the places I normally shop have it in stock. I'll either have to make a special trip to an out of the ordinary place or order it off the internet. I haven't had time to pursue it recently.

Thanks for the reminder, though - it had almost slipped my mind.

[CatWoman]

112. I had both chicken pox and shingles

and shingles hurt like a SOB..........

[roguevalley]

200. I had both. I had chicken pox so badly that they were on the INSIDE of my

eyelids. I nearly died. I still have scars on my head.

[MattBaggins]

207. Adult onset autism is caused by wedding vows... proven fact

[shenmue]

2. I've had chicken pox and mumps

[Arugula Latte]

10. Same.

Not fun.

Still have chicken pox scar smack dab in the middle of my forehead.

[adigal]

161. Me, too! I had a very bad case of chicken pox, have about 20 scars on my body

And Im now 53. My mother thught Imhad measles, also, and possibly mumps.

My kids were all vaccinated against everything except the newer vaccine for girls, the name of which Imcnt remember. She was 12, they were really pushing it, I wasn't comfortable with it, as it was very new and that cancer it can prevent is when they are sexually active. If she wants it, at 20, she is free to get it now.

[xmas74]

193. Gardasil.

I did it for my daughter after watching a coworker go through cancer that could be prevented with this vaccine. It's a series of three shots over the course of six months.

[11 Bravo]

48. Hell, I forgot about the mumps. I had them, as well.

And from what I know, that's a disease guys are better off contracting early.

[1StrongBlackMan]

79. Yep ...

Mumps in post-puberty males can be terrible.

Fortunately(?), I contracted Chicken-pox, measles and mumps, before the age of 5 yrs old.

[freshwest]

136. Yeah, my dad got it then and ended up extremely sick. Before I was born. but my aunt told me.

I don't why it affects males or what it does to anyone, really.

Although it was the worst for me of all three, chickenpox, measles and mumps. I seem to remember getting an earache.

What does it do to men?

[dhol82]

140. Makes them sterile

Not all but it is a concern.

[1StrongBlackMan]

152. WOW ...

If your Dad got mumps, as a post-puberty male, you are a person with a purpose (i.e., You are supposed to be here) ... because mumps render most post-puberty males sterile.

I'm glad you are here and await your purpose being accomplished.

[MyOwnPeace]

171. Had mumps............

at 22. Had to be motionless (well, that's what it seemed like to me - my first EVER "paid" vacation -post college) and I'm stuck on the couch for 2 weeks!
Explanation: the "virus" would travel down the nerve system of the spinal cord and attack the testicles - the actual physical motion would allow the spread of the disease/virus/cooties - causing sterility.
Postlogue: I have a son and daughter - must have listened to my Mother!!!!!!!

[freshwest]

190. Thanks, 1SBM, that means a lot coming from you. My dad was unable to have kids for many years.

My mother also had scarlet or rheumatic fever and it affected her badly as a child. But they seemed healthy enough, although most of my family did not live anywhere near retirement age.

I've always felt I was here for a reason, it's just ingrained in me. So I have been serious. I still have a purpose, it's simply not the kind of thing that one discusses here.

I have a strong feeling that you, too, have real reason to be here when you revealed your family history. Impressive how they survived and thrived after such horrible oppression.

Thanks again.

[1StrongBlackMan]

191. I strongly believe that we ALL have a purpose ...

some of us are just blessed to have had our purpose clearly exposed.

I still have a purpose, it's simply not the kind of thing that one discusses here.

I know what you mean.

[freshwest]

192. I started to add the word ALL myself. So many are kept from their full potential. And agree:

[elleng]

3. I had both.

I'm older than you.

Daughters inoculated, and older daughter had a bad reaction to MMR, so doc agreed to not follow up with boosters. Neither daughter has had the diseases, and are having their babies inoculated.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. had measles and mumps but no chicken pox. our fam seems to have some immunity to it as kids

but if exposed as adults we get it, which is what it makes it super dangerous. my grandfather got it at 60 and he was in a really bad state.

may not kill the kids, but will really damage old people and such.

no one would be against vaccines if they traveled to the third world and saw remnants of people with polio etc. this is purely a first world problem, which comes from being sheltered against bad things.

[haikugal]

5. I had both, born in '47

I don't understand this whole notion of being against science at all. Why don't you put up a poll?

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. I had quite a few - measles, mumps, german measles, scarlet fever, chicken pox

and lots of strep throats and ear infections.

None of them were much fun, and a few were downright awful.

born in 1956

[Cirque du So-What]

71. I had all the above

including so-called 'hard measles.' I missed so much of 4th grade that the teacher tried to have me held back, although I demonstrated enough aptitude to avoid that fate.

[Crunchy Frog]

104. My brother I had scarlet fever, but there's no vaccine for that.

It's basically just a strep infection that's become more systemic than strep throat. Treated with antibiotics.

[adigal]

162. My mom, born in 1929, had that and it gave her a heart murmur

And she was in bed, ill, for a year. There were no antibiotics in the 1930s, at least not for the masses.

[jwirr]

170. My aunt went through that also. Died very young.

[Pendrench]

8. I had chicken pox when I was 4 (I was born in 1965). n/t

[etherealtruth]

51. Born in '62, chicken pox in '68

.... but thanks to vaccines .... nothing else!

[KamaAina]

9. Chicken pox as a teenager

no vax back then (late '70s).

edit: Earlier, I weaseled my way into the school play because one of my classmates had measles.

[1monster]

82. Chicken pox vaccine not readily available until a few months after my son got a whopping case of it.

He was born in 1992 and got them in kindergarten, so it was after '97 or 98 when his doctor was able to offer the vaccine.

My neighbor's daughter, one year oder than my son got the chicken pox, too. Both of them had pox sores all over their bodies, including on their scalps and the bottoms of their feet. It's nasty stuff. If the vaccine had been available before he got it, there is no way I would have allowed him to suffer that.

I remember having had (miserable) measles and mumps. I probably had chicken pox as my sister has a pox scar, but don't remember that.

[Act_of_Reparation]

227. It isn't a mild disease by any means

The anti-vaccination people seem to forget that; they seem to think that only diseases likely to kill you should be considered severe.

But chickenpox is no joke. We're talking about high fevers, itchy and often painful sores that can develop in very inconvenient places... absolute misery for up to two freakin' weeks. And then, to top it all off, that shit can come back when you're entering the twilight of your dotage... as the exquisitely painful disease we call shingles.

[Nye Bevan]

11. Both as a kid. Measles was pure misery.

Chicken pox no big deal, but annoying. Swept through my school as it was as infectious as hell.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. I got both 14-day measles and chicken pox as an infant/toddler

I got the 3-day measles as a teenager. I don't remember anything about the former two diseases, only that I survived them. My mom said that I had to be kept in a dark room until I had gotten over the worst of both of those diseases. As for the 3-day measles, I didn't even know I had them until someone noticed red spots all over my arms. I spent the next three days in the hospital, but I felt absolutely no ill effects during that time.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Born in the 60s; escaped measles through vaccination, but did get mumps and chickenpox

I don't remember much about mumps, which I had at about age 4, but chickenpox, which I had at about 11, was unpleasant! I had the rubella vaccine at 13 - at that time it was just given to girls at around puberty.

I had no long-term consequences from the diseases I did get; but I knew people who weren't so lucky. One of my contemporaries was born profoundly deaf due to his mother having rubella when pregnant; and I know someone who has severe physical disabilities from having whooping cough as a young baby.

[MohRokTah]

14. I've had measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.

Rubella was a bad experience. When it was going around our small town, one kid died. I was just very very sick.

Measles caused one kid in town to have severe brain damage.

Mumps didn't hurt any of us kids, but I heard about a guy in town about 23 years old who got it and ended up sterile.

Chickenpox nearly killed my brother.

We had polio and smallpox vaccines.

[Laurian]

15. I'm 67 and have had both. I vividly remember the measles

My sister and I had to stay in a darkened room when we had measles. I'm not sure why, but that's my memory.

[Glassunion]

30. Same here. I was not sure why either.

Later in life, mom told me it was so she would not have to look at my ugly blotchy ass.

[Liberal Veteran]

39. Sensitivity to light is common with measles. So moms just did it without bothering to ask.

That's the reason.

[GP6971]

188. I forgot all about the darkened room

In my case it sounds about right as measles screwed up my eyes.....been wearing glasses since I was 8

[lpbk2713]

16. Mumps, measles, c-pox.

All the usual suspects.

[zappaman]

17. Chicken pox. n/t

[Cleita]

18. Both.

Then I got the shingles when I was your age because of the chicken pox I had sixty years before. If you haven't been vaccinated for that, think of it. It's a very painful and lingering disease.

[Munificence]

70. I had

chicken pox 2x before my teen years and then I had shingles around age 34.

Lucky my shingles were somewhat mild and hidden (from waste line to upper chest and only on my front side) but boy those blisters hurt, guess I had maybe 15-20 good ones on me and was pretty painful for about a week. Was a weird feeling before I got them, I could really feel what I describe as an electrical charge shoot down my arm from time to time. This went on for maybe 10 days then the shingles showed up.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. I've had both and I'm 65

I got lots of shots when I was a kid and my dad was transferred by the Air Force to Germany in 1955 but I don't think the measles shot was available back then and I got measles shortly thereafter.

[haikugal]

46. I did too...

From Navy nurses with big sterilized needles.....ouch!

[giftedgirl77]

20. I had chicken pox, born in 77...

Didn't get it until I was in grade school, I gave it to my two younger sister's.

[Control-Z]

158. My oldest caught the chicken pox

at 9 months from her older cousins. Poor baby girl had blisters on every imaginable, and even unimaginable, part of her body. Being in diapers made it so much worse.

[giftedgirl77]

164. Oooh I can imagine how terrible it must be for a baby to get it.

For them not to understand what is going on or why you're not supposed to scratch. Hell, I was in grade school & that was damn near an unbearable request.

[dilby]

21. I had it all.

Measles and chicken pox, probably mumps as well. Born in 75 and my parents were anti-vaxxer hippies even though my dad was a doctor. If any kid got anything I was sent to play with them, had gotten everything by kindergarten.

[valerief]

178. That's what my mother did with my sister, brother, and me. She wanted us to share diseases

to reduce her disease-nursing time. Taking care of two sick kids at once was easier than taking care of two sick kids two separate times, especially since we didn't feel sick when we were sick.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Me. I don't remember much about measles

except that I had a high fever and felt like crap. I remember chicken pox better; it was incredibly itchy. I recovered completely but I really would rather not have been sick. I also got scarlet fever and was really sick with that, but I don't think there's ever been a vaccine for it. Then there was polio. Didn't get that either, but I remember how my mom worried (she was a nurse who had taken care of kids with polio - iron lungs, paralysis, bad stuff) until the Salk vaccine came out. Later I met a guy my own age who had it as a kid and still had to wear a brace in his leg.

People who oppose vaccinations are fucking insane.

[bigwillq]

23. I had chickenpox. Did not get measles.

Had the measles vaccine.
I had a pretty severe case of CPox, but it wasn't life-threatening.

[Little Star]

24. I'm older than you & I also had both....

Luckily I was healthy. I think that the greatest risk is to those who have other conditions.

[Xyzse]

25. I had both.

I used to live in a different country though, and it was the 80s.

[tosh]

26. Both in first grade

64-65 school year.

One made me delirious, the pox I think, and I can still vividly remember a nightmare from that.

Edited to add: I've personally known three people with polio. One, an uncle, much older but the other two were my age or close, a second cousin and a college friend. All three wore braces.

[SteveG]

27. 64 as well. I had the 4 majors

Rubella - very sick, Measles - not too bad, mumps - very very sick, Chicken Pox - itchy. Was vaccinated for Polio in 1957 3 injections, and the Sugar Cubes in 60.

My kids had all of the available vaccinations available 40 years ago.

[Danmel]

28. I was born in 1960

I had the mumps and had such a high fever that
I hallucinated. I was about 5 at the time. I also had the chicken pox.
I had a measles vaccine and remember when the rubella vaccine was introduced and the New York State health department ran ads for the "rubella umbrella.". My parents weren't idiots and my brother and I were vaccinated.

When I was in graduate school in the early 80s, they had a measles outbreak, and everyone born after 1957 had to be re-vaccinated. I remember being in line behind a big strapping kid and he passed out cold when they gave him the shot!

My children, who are now in their 20s got everything but chicken pox vaccines, which came out after they had already had them. But I would have gotten them vaccinated had it been available.

[stevenleser]

29. Had Chicken Pox and Mononucleosis at the same time. They made each other worse.

Had a horrific case of both that lasted the better part of 30-45 days.

I would rather have had a chance at a vaccine for the Chicken Pox at least.

[Glassunion]

31. Chicken Pox at 5 years old

Still have about 4 or 5 scars from it.

[TwilightGardener]

32. Had chicken pox and rubella. Vaccinated against rubella, but

somehow contracted it anyway, when I was 10 (1980). The doctor my mom took me to was quite surprised about it. I was pretty sick for a few days, got to stay home from fourth grade for a week. Yes, my kids (now young men) are fully vaccinated.

[drm604]

33. I had both.

I don't remember them that well but I imagine that I was very sick. I also had mumps. I'm fortunate in that I have no lasting damage (as far as I know) from any of them. They can be prevented (or at least made much more unlikely) and not vaccinating children who can be vaccinated borders on child abuse.

[Brigid]

34. I was born in 1958. I'm pretty sure I had measles.

No vaccine yet back then. Got mumps later, in grade school, for the same reason. I got a rubella vaccine in the sixth grade. I have a small scar on my left arm from a smallpox vaccine. I don't remember getting the oral polio vaccine, but if it was available, I got it. Same with DTP. I had chickenpox in high school. Being born in 1958 was a bit awkward, because many of these vaccines were not yet available, so an organized schedule of vaccines was difficult. But anything that might have gotten missed, I got in boot camp anyway.

[ladyVet]

217. Born the same year!

I only remember having mumps and German measles (got sent home from elementary school with that). Since I've been reading about what everyone had as children, I suspect I may have had chicken pox that was diagnosed as poison ivy. I was about four, and had horribly itchy blisters all over, including inside my mouth and eyes, up my nose, you name it. It would explain how I managed to not get chicken pox even though all three of my kids had it -- the two oldest at the same time. I still can't be near poison oak/ivy/sumac, though, because I will get a severe reaction from it.

My boys were born in 78 and 80, and then the last one in 94. They got every vaccine that was available, and I hope we can all get a shingles vaccine at some point. Both of my parents have had shingles (mom twice) and now my youngest sister is in the hospital with it because she got worse (after going and getting treatment) and the doctors had seen spots in her eye.

I also got vaccinated for all sorts of things during basic training (AKA boot camp) when I joined the USAF, including two swine flu shots within a week. Talk about being sick! urgh

[meow2u3]

35. I was born in 1960 and had chicken pox at age 29

There was no chicken pox shot until years after I came down with the disease. I was laid up for 2 weeks, missing college classes in the process (I was a nontraditional adult student).

I never had measles, thank God.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I had BOTH measles and chicken pox the year I was in fourth grade

Measles was the worst. I was as sick as I have ever been in my life. I must have had a very high fever, because I was thirsty all the time. Even when I was recovering, my eyes were sensitive to light, so I had to stay in a darkened room. No reading, no TV. As one who loved to read even then, I was going crazy until my mother brought a radio and phonograph into the room.

A week after I returned to school, I came down with chicken pox. I wasn't as sick, but I was just covered in itchy blisters that I wasn't supposed to scratch. That was horrible in its own way.

I had mumps when I was in third grade and rubella when I was four.

I never had polio, thank goodness, but when I was in college, there were a couple of students who were showing the after-effects, leg braces and the like, and I realized that everyone I had ever seen disabled by polio was my age or older.

When I was five, I was hospitalized with pneumonia, and as I began to recover and get a bit stir crazy, one of the nurses took me around to see some of the other children on the pediatrics ward. I still remember a room where there were three (?) kids in iron lungs.

[truebluegreen]

37. I'm 60 and I had 'em all, except polio.

Measles (both kinds), chicken pox, mumps. There were three of us kids and when one got it (whatever it was) Mom would make sure we all did: feeding us with the same spoon, etc. I don't remember any of it being particularly onerous or dangerous (being the youngest, I probably wouldn't remember as well as my sibs tho).

I can say with authority that shingles suck.

[JustAnotherGen]

38. Born in 73 - chicken pox

Army brat though so no way they were going to let an American born abroad to go without vaccinations.

[Arkansas Granny]

40. I've had measles (rubeola and rubella) and mumps, but not chickenpox.

I don't remember rubeola, since I was only 2 years old, but my mother said I ran such a high fever that I was delirious. I didn't recognize her and would try to get away from her when she tried to care for me. Mumps and rubella were not too bad, as I recall.

When my kids were born, some of the new vaccines were not available, but they got every one that their pediatrician recommended.

[Holly_Hobby]

41. I'm 59 and had both

I didn't have the mumps, though, even when my brother came down with them.

[tenderfoot]

42. Had chickenpox and mumps when I was a toddler and got a measles shot.

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[Shrike47]

43. I had mumps, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and mononucleosis.

My kids were innoculated, you betcha! The whooping cough, pertussis, was really bad. I was 5 and remember it vividly.

I managed to keep my tonsils until I was 28.

[Avalux]

44. My brother almost died from measles as an infant.

It was really awful.

I had mumps and chicken pox as a child and recovered fully. I remember having the mumps because I was so miserable; was about 9 years old.

[KMOD]

45. I had chicken pox as a child

1967 so I was vaccinated for measles.

My older sister had german measles and chicken pox.

[WCIL]

47. I was born in 1965

and had the chicken pox when I was 20. I have never been so ill in my life. I caught them when my 14 year old sister brought them home. I am unclear on this part, but my mother says I was vaccinated as an infant (MMR) and then vaccinated again in the mid-'70's for measles (using a live vaccine, she thinks?)

My husband was born in 1953 and remembers having measles, mumps and chicken pox, but not rubella.

[Agnosticsherbet]

49. Both as a child.

[peacebird]

50. I had measles, german measels, chicken pox, & mumps as a kid, and got measels and german measels

From my son when he was a kid in the 80's.... Apparently my body didn't create the immunity the first time round. Oh, and got shingles in my right eye five years ago, have had the ahingles vaccine now and my follow on cases of the shingles have been much milder...

[Siwsan]

52. I had measles, chicken pox and mumps - everyone I grew up with did

You have a couple of years on me, but not many. The only childhood vaccinations I ever received were polio and small pox - MAYBE whooping cough, but not sure.

I don't remember ever feeling particularly ill during any of the inflictions.

[uppityperson]

53. Hard measles, German measles, mumps twice, chickenpox, shingles, influenza, pneumonia

I have gotten what vaccines I can as an adult including pneumo, flu, hep b, Td.

Hard measles was awful, very sick in a dark room for a week. German measles was minor. Chicken pox was annoying as was mumps. Shingles very painful. Flu like getting hit by a truck then coughing for 3 weeks. Pneumonia post flu was scary.

The worst were hard measles, pneumonia and influenza. I envied my younger sibs who got vaccinated, I got what I could but they were not available when I was small.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

54. Chicken pox and measles.

Born in '60. I had two older sisters and we all caught whatever one of us brought home. Chicken pox were miserable, indeed. I honestly don't remember anything about the measles except for the darkened room I had to stay in.

If I had kids I would have zero problem with them being vaccinated.

[MFM008]

55. i had pox and mumps in the 60s.

but it wasnt a bad case of pox, my sisters was bad, looked like she had small pox. Mumps not bad, i just remember a swollen throat.

[MiniMe]

56. I had both when I was a child

Back in the 60's. Had measles in California, and chicken pox in the DC area. Had Mumps too, again in the early 60's in California

[Polly Hennessey]

57. Had them all

I had the measles, chicken pox and mumps. I don't remember any of them being horrible, horrible. I remember that I had to stay in a darkened room for a week with the measles. I remember that I had to stay in bed with the mumps. I don't recall much about the chicken pox except it was itchy and I was told not to scratch. I would definitely give my kids the vaccines, however.

I did have the polio vaccine. I also had my tonsils taken out and my memory of that was I got to eat all the ice cream I wanted. Not bad at all.

[frogmarch]

58. Rubella, Rubeola, Chickenpox

but not mumps.

I had both kinds of measles and also chickenpox by the time I was 6 (I'm 71 now), but for some reason when I was 21, I got Rubella again. Anyway, that was my doctor's diagnosis. Weird.

[cwydro]

59. I had chicken pox.

I also had German Measles. My sister got the red measles and mumps, as well as chicken pox.

[madamesilverspurs]

60. Had c-pox and mumps as a toddler.

Got hit with measles in '92; very special, seeing as how I was in a body cast at the time. Shingles arrived last year.

Born in 1948, by the way.

[Exhibit A]

61. Of the traditional childhood diseases --

I only had chicken pox. I grew up in the 1970s and '80s.

A close friend who is twelve years older than me had many of the old ones that I was vaccinated against -- measles, mumps, etc.

[Exhibit A]

63. Just adding one thing

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My mother was apparently immune to the chicken pox virus, because she never had it as a child, and despite being continuously exposed for five or six weeks when my brother and I had it, she did not get infected.

Edited to correct a typo

[NEOhiodemocrat]

189. I am immune also

Four of my five children had it, two oldest one after the other, then next two seven years latter back to back cases. My youngest never caught it from anyone when she was exposed also. Few years back my doctor ran a test and agreed that I have no sign that I ever had it. He was trying to get me to get the Shingles vaccine and I told him my mother insisted I had never gotten it from any of my siblings. Guess Mother knew best.

[FSogol]

62. I had chicken pox. My oldest son did too, but the youngest got the vaccine. n/t

[Aerows]

64. Chicken Pox

and it was horrible. I got them when I was 15, because I went to the administrative office of the school and a kid was getting sent home because he had them. 3 weeks later, I got them.

[ellenfl]

65. i had both . . . and mumps too. eom

[woodsprite]

66. I was around all of them (my brother had them), but I never got them.

When I was in my 20s, I worked at a school and they were asking everyone to get their german measles shot updated, also since my SIL was pregnant at the time, they recommended I be vaccinated. But that was also a time when one person came down with strep throat in your house and doctor prescribed penicillen for everybody.

For the chicken pox, my mother said I was really exposed to them, but never showed any signs (apparently I was crawling all over my brother and 4 cousins when they had them).

[Jamastiene]

67. Both.

When I had measles, I was sick for about a month. I mean, out of school on the doctor's orders sick. I vaguely remember chicken pox because I was pink from head to toe while I had it. I'm 44. I know that if my mother knew of any vaccine for anything, I was going to get it. I just got a tetanus shot not long ago because I finally learned how to sharpen my chisels. I didn't have to work nearly as hard to get the chisel through what I was chiseling, so naturally, my favorite finger (my middle right finger) was in the way and almost got taken off on the last knuckle. I got the tetanus shot at the same time as I got my flu shot, just in case. It turned out I had my last tetanus shot 5 years ago instead of the 10, I thought it had been. I've had oodles of tetanus shots, because I'm constantly cutting myself and playing in the dirt, in unrelated activities, of course. I don't do it on purpose. That would be just weird. The pharmacist mentioned horses. My neighbor up the hill has a horse. So, I figured I would rather be safe than sorry.

There is not a disease I can name that I would voluntarily NOT protect myself from. If I can protect myself, dammit, I'm in, give me all the shots necessary. Sure, I can eat healthy and do all sorts of overzealous exercise as opposed to moderate exercise and eating in moderation, but it is not going to guarantee I'm not going to get sick. Shit happens. I'd rather have that extra protection of the vaccine. If I had a kid, they'd get every vaccine I could talk a doctor into giving them, even ones that are not required. I would want them as protected as possible.

[shanti]

68. I'm 59

And have had hard measles, mumps and chicken pox, all as a child.

[sdfernando]

69. No Measles but I did

have the Chicken Pox....TWICE...believe it or not.

[Yakob]

203. I had Chicken Pox twice as well!

Once at age 2 and the second time at age 7. Interesting to see someone else has had it twice!

[sdfernando]

221. I've never met anyone else that had them twice

weird...I had mine about the same ages as you. Also had the Mumps within about a year of the 2nd case of chicken pox. I remember taking the measles oral vaccine. They used to squirt the vaccine on a sugar cube and we ate that. What kid doesn't want to eat a sugar cube?...weaselly doctors!

[Old Codger]

72. All of them

Chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough...actually whooping cough twice...

[indivisibleman]

73. I had both

The measles was the worse but mine was like a medium to bad flu. My Chicken Pox was mild.
When I got the measles our whole town was told to vaccinate and most people did but my mother opted me out. A lot of kids still came down with it. Two kids got pretty sick with it though and were out of school for over a month. Nobody died. My kids were all vaccinated for these.

[tencats]

74. All the above plus one more, Scarlet fever.

Am I the only one that suffered with Scarlet fever. I was 5-6 years old and in those days and the Children's Doctor commonly came to the home when needed. I remember nothing of the fever except what my mother told me of the event. It was that after I had been several days with sore throat I was found with a bright red rash over my arms , face and scalp. Although uncommon for it to happen I shortly there after had an alarmingly high fever. As my mother tells it, when the Dr arrived he took one look at me and ordered my mother to gather all the ice on hand and sent my father running to the neighbors for more ice. They filled the bath tube just enough to submerge me in ice water to rapidly draw down the fever. I remember nothing this. For near a year after I recovered I had a few more appointments with the Dr probing me for some possible internal organ damage resulting from the fever. Now many years later I seem to be ok and hope to remain so.

[Curmudgeoness]

146. You are not the only one. I also had scarlet fever.

I saw one other post here, I think NRaleighLiberal, who had it.

I don't remember much either. I do remember my mother having me standing in front of the window so she could have good light and looking at my tongue. She called it a "strawberry tongue" and I guess that was a symptom. This is the only time I remember the doctor coming to our house, maybe they did not want anyone with scarlet fever in the office? Or maybe I was too sick. I don't know. I was told one time by my younger sister that I was so sick that she was afraid that I was going to die. Or maybe it was how much my parents were panicked that scared her.

I think I had every childhood disease except mumps and polio (there was the polio vaccine at the time, which I had to have twice because the first one didn't leave a scar??? And it was a very painful one.)

[femmocrat]

75. I had measles twice, once in elementary school and again in high school.

I also had the chicken pox. I got the shingles vax.

No vaccines for those illnesses in the 1950s.

[project_bluebook]

76. I had German Measles (Rubella) as a teen

I remember the doc showing me off to all the other docs & nurses so I don't think they had many cases come in.

[Act_of_Reparation]

77. I was born in 1983.

Well before the chickenpox vaccine became available.

I'm sure others will echo this story: my parents made a conscious effort to expose me and my siblings to virus while we were young, knowing full well what it can do to adults.

[pstokely]

223. did they take you to a chickenpox party?

nt

[Throd]

78. Born in 1967. Had both as a child.

[Richard D]

80. I had both

I don't have the memory of them being a big deal.

[YarnAddict]

83. I probably had them all,

although the only one I remember is the "German measles" and that's only because I came down with them during a trip to visit my grandmother in another state.

I had the rash, but was up and playing with my sister, so I couldn't have been too sick. I remember that my mother made me wear sunglasses inside the entire time. I did puke once in my uncle's new car on the way home.

[Vinca]

84. Both. I'm also an older fart and in the same boat.

An added part of having had chicken pox is that now you're at risk of developing shingles. There is a vaccine for that, but it's only about 50% effective. I have a scar between my eyes from chicken pox as a kid and scars on my abdomen from shingles as an adult. Vaccinate.

[Still Sensible]

85. Born in '55, had

measles, german measles, chicken pox and mumps.

[HomerRamone]

86. My German Measles probably caused a stillborn sibling

Escaped mumps long enough to get the vaccine, but had both kinds of measles and chicken pox

[Hekate]

208. My mom had several miscarriages during the years we were catching everything...

...and with all the controversy now, I have begun to wonder about the timing. No way of knowing now, though.

[Blue_In_AK]

87. I had them both.

Chickenpox wasn't too awful, aside from being uncomfortable and leaving me with a few scars, but the measles was awful. I was only about 4 or 5 but remember being really sick with a high fever and being closed up in our dark house for what seemed like forever. My two brothers and I had measles at the same time, and we were all really, really sick.

[Warpy]

88. I nearly died from measles

I've had the MMR twice for work requirements and didn't develop a positive measles antibody titer either time. I might be vulnerable to getting it again.

Antivaxers are crazy people and public health laws should trump that, keeping their kids out of day care centers and public schools until they catch a fucking clue and get the shots.

Bottom line: you can be as loony as you want to be. You are just not allowed to put other people at risk. I'm 100% on the side of doctors who won't see anitvaxer kids, they also have kids who are medically exempted from vaccinations in their waiting rooms.

(I also remember chicken pox, a week of unbearable itching with my hands in mitts so I couldn't scratch)

[Barack_America]

153. Some of us just have fluctuating, low titers.

I'm one too. Sometimes I'll be negative for measles, but positive for rubella, the next time the other way around. I'm in healthcare and so have now been vaccinated with MMR three times (five shots total). They've just given up measuring my titers and trying to chase them. I'm either immune at this point, or I'm not. Roaring immunity to other viruses like HepB and varicella (despite a shockingly mid bout of chicken pox). So who knows?

[Neurotica]

198. Maybe that's the case with my younger son and the chicken pox vaccine

He had the vaccine in 1999 at age one. Then in 2008 he and about 12-15 other boys who had all been at the same birthday party developed an odd pox-like rash. Every pediatric practice in the area was giving different diagnoses since most if not all of these boys had received the chicken pox vaccine. However, after ruling out other possibilities, it seemed likely that they had chicken pox (although not all the physicians were in agreement). My son had about 50-60 pox, mostly on the trunk, a little itchy. It wasn't too bad, especially compared to what my older son went through with the chicken pox several years prior (maybe the vaccine contributed to the diminished response?). I kept him out of school for a week.

Later, our pediatrician was curious and wanted to test his titer level. It turns out he had no antibodies to chicken pox. He therefore received another vaccine in 2009.

I've always wondered about this...

[pipi_k]

89. I was a disease magnet

I'm 62 and had

Chicken Pox
Measles
Mumps
Hepatitis A

And whatever other schmutz was floating around the neighborhood and schools

I remember feeling absolutely miserable through each and every one.

[TBF]

91. I was born in the mid-60s

had chicken pox at age 5. I remember having measles - or what I thought was measles - but looking at the dates of vaccines coming out I think what I probably got was a rash after being vaccinated. I don't remember being as sick as chicken pox so that's my best guess.

[Omaha Steve]

92. Marta & I had both, we are 58

K&R!

[murielm99]

93. I was born in 1948,

so I had only the polio vaccine and smallpox, too. When I was in first grade, one of my classmates contracted hepatitis. Everyone in my class, and in her sister's class, had to be vaccinated for that. We received our shots at school.

I had measles, both kinds, and chickenpox. I may have had mumps, but I don't remember. I had whooping cough when I was a baby, according to my mother. I had the immunity tests, and have strong immunity to measles, mumps and chicken pox.

My children had chicken pox. The vaccine was not yet available. I have seen two children die in my small community as a result of complications from the chicken pox. Another died later from measles encephalitis, after years in a vegetative state.

When I was a child, I saw a few children with complications from measles. One had hearing loss. I think another had vision problems, but I don't recall all that well. I know those diseases can be deadly, or they can cause lingering problems.

I grew up with many people who suffered the after effects of polio. My parents were glad to see that we were all vaccinated against that scourge.

I don't understand the anti-vaxxers. They are dangerous to everyone.

[mike_c]

94. had both, mumps too....

Born in 1955, so I had measles long before a vaccine was available. I got my vaccination the old fashioned way, LOL.

[OregonBlue]

95. At 65, I had them all. Measles (both kinds) mumps, chicken pox. You name it we got it.

No vaccinations for those things back then. I was in the 3rd or 4th grade when we got polio vaccine and there were kids in our school who had had polio.

[CTyankee]

98. I've got some years on you. I got everything which was expected.

Funny, I didn't hear about kids dying from these diseases. Were they less virulent types?

[OregonBlue]

226. I suspect that since everyone got them, we all had a certain amount of immunity.

We had mostly been breast fed as babies which also conveys immunities. Now that everyone is vaccinated and there is no immunity, they can be very dangerous diseases.

[Piasladic]

96. Chicken Pox - during a hurricane

It was hurricane Elena. The bridge had just collapsed but no one would take us in. We lived just north of the Skyway.

My father lied so I could have a place to sleep, and I lay sick in a hotel room until it was over. Our whole neighborhood was off limits.

If I could have been immunized, I would have been. I hope I didn't get other people sick.

[lark]

97. I had both as a child, I'm an old fart too.

I did have a bad case of German measles when I was 5 and have very bad eyesight because they settled on my eyes. My friend's son is deaf because she was exposed to measles while he was just a 2 month fetus. My husband's brother had bad kidneys, which failed when he was in his early 20's, due to chickenpox. Yes, I had chickenpox and so did my children, and we were all fine. My dad was rendered almost completely infertile by mumps and had to have months of very painful treatments to remove the adhesions before mom could get pregnant.

It's been proven that autism isn't caused by vaccinations, and the diseases they prevent can definitely be dangerous. Make it mandatory in all places like it already is in most that children have the vaccinations before being allowed in school. Also make the parents prove the child is vaccinated before being allowed to home school them. Stop the stupid madness now.

[dumbcat]

99. Mumps, measles and chickenpox

Had them all, just like every other kid at the time. This was in the '50's, before any vaccines.

I was also lucky enough to get Scarlet Fever and impetigo. Also had a case of pneumonia when I was two years old. If it was going around, I got it.

[Borchkins]

100. I had chicken pox. I was born in 1963.

Both my sons, ages 12 and 11 have had chicken pox, too. #1 before he was fully inoculated and #2 caught it from him at 10 months. It was diagnosed as hand, foot and mouth disease because the docs said they were too young to get chicken pox!
They're fully immunized for everything else.
B

[smirkymonkey]

224. I was also born in '63, but have had none of the above diseases.

I was exposed to siblings and friends who had chicken pox, but never came down with a full blown case. I had maybe 2 or 3 itchy spots (which could have been psychosomatic, as I knew I was being exposed purposely) but never actually came down with anything.

[Crunchy Frog]

101. My siblings and I all had chicken pox.

I don't recall it being a big deal. Itchy spots and a week off of school. I'm not saying it's not a big deal for some people. Just wasn't one for us.

[cal04]

102. I had both. There was no chicken pox shot

I did get the measle shot, but one of the few that got it anyway.
Having four children giving each other chicken pox,(before there was a shot) was not fun

[spedtr90]

103. Measles - had to wear sunglasses

Something about preventing damage to our eyes by protecting them from light. (?)
We made the best of it by pretending we were movie stars.

Chicken pox and mumps too. No sunglasses required.

[FuzzyRabbit]

105. Chicken pox, measles, and mumps

Born in 1946. Nearly everyone in my grade school had all three.

And a few also had polio. All parents were terrified of polio. When the Salk vaccine became available, the school administered it to everyone. You don't see many young kids wearing leg braces anymore, thank goodness (and vaccines).

Anti-vaxxers are as thoughtless and ignorant as drunk drivers, showing no concern for anyone, including their own children.

[hunter]

106. Chicken pox and mumps fucked me up a bit.

Chicken pox, so far, it's just scars. In my mouth even.

My mom got shingles (reincarnated chicken pox) bad, her doctor gave her powerful opiates, no further questions asked. She got the face kind of shingles, worse than even the can't sit down it's agony to poop butt hole kind.

Mumps was bad for me. If I take a physical inventory of all my aches and pains, beyond the ever-present arthritis, the shriveled remains of my left testicle are always screaming at me. Maybe someday I'll have the whole sordid mess cut out of me.

When our kids were new my wife and I had no money but we alway made sure our kids' vaccines were current, even if we had to wait for an hour or two sitting in the hallway of the county health clinic.

[freshwest]

107. Chickenpox, measles and mumps. Mumps was the hardest for me. We got polio and smallpox vax at school

We also had to do the TB thing. Didn't get Tetanus shot until my twenties, just recently got the MMR and Tetanus again.

Also a Shingles shot, because I don't need more damn drama. Saving up for a Pneumonia shot. Think I'm done for life except the annual Flu shot.

Never had to get a Rabies shot, but somedays around here I feel like I need one. Does foaming at the mouth count, LOL...

[sheshe2]

174. I missed the mumps, but had the other two plus more.

I had scarlet fever at five. I was quarantined in my parents bedroom for a month and a half. My dad use to read to me on the other side of the curtain. I gave it to my sister, but she was not down long. She was stuck in our bedroom upstairs. I had my record player and keep playing Peter Pan over and over. My sister would scream for me to shut it off, Lol~ I kept playing the song I Won't Grow Up.

My poor mom was tearing her hair out. Those were the days that the doctors made house calls~

[wysi]

108. Had chicken pox at age 11...

Born in 1966 so no chicken pox vax. No measles as I had been vaccinated (and had the vax again when I was 18 as we had a measles outbreak in college).

[madamvlb]

109. I had chicken pox and mumps

My boys born in 89 and 91 both had chicken pox

[sarge43]

110. Old fart. Had both and mumps nt

[sendero]

111. I'm in my late 50s..

..... I had all the standard childhood diseases of the time including chickenpox, measles, perhaps whooping cough, but I never did get mumps.

So I don't want them now.

[Yakob]

113. Born in 1991, and I had Chicken Pox twice.

Once when I was 2 and then when I was 7. Not sure how I wasn't immune but my sister caught it then (she wasn't born yet the first time I had it) and then I caught it from her. The second time wasn't too bad, but the first time I had chicken pox I was quite ill for about 2 weeks. I only vaguely remember having it the first time.

Luckily I was vaccinated against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella so I've never had any of those. I consider myself very lucky to live in an era when the vaccines are available and to have been immunized. But I think the Chicken Pox vaccine either wasn't invented yet or wasn't yet widely available in the USA when I was a little kid. When she was 7-9 my sister had a friend who had had measles, and survived without complication. Her parents were conspiracy theorists and didn't believe in vaccines. Very nice people but I thought they were nuts in that respect.

[ColesCountyDem]

114. I had mumps, chicken pox, rubella and measles. Measles complications nearly killed me.

I'm also an old (pre-vaccine) fart. The mumps, chicken pox and rubella were just uncomfortable, as best I recall. The measles, however, led to a serious case of pneumonia, and I wound up in the hospital for 8 days.

[redstatebluegirl]

115. I had chickenpox so bad I was in the hospital.

No measles but had the vax. I have also had the vax for shingles, saw my Dad with them and it scared me enou to save and pay the 200 for the vax.

[jaysunb]

116. Born in 43, and had them all, as did every kid in the

neighborhood. We all lined up and got polio and small pox vac's at some point in the 50's, otherwise it was almost expected we'd all get measles, mumps and chicken pox with little concern or fanfare.
All my kids were born between 67 and 84 and were vaccinated as part of their early childhood pediatric care. None has had any of the problems.

These anti vaxxers are stupid and dangerous.

[BlueStater]

117. I had chicken pox but not measles.

I'm 28, by the way.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

118. Born in 1975. I got chicken pox in the mid 80's

Scariest thing was how fast the little pimples were just popping up on me. In a matter of minutes it seemed. Other than the itching, I don't recall feeling sick.

I was vaxxed for measles though.

[WheelWalker]

120. Born in 1949. Mumps in the womb; 10 day "hard" measles at home at age 7, nursed through it by

my aunt who had just come to stay after being thrown out of her convent. I'm sure I had chix pox as well, but don't remember that. I've never been as sick again as I was with the measles.

[kelliekat44]

121. Chicken pox, measles, whooping cough, mumps, tonsillitis. nt

[AtomicKitten]

122. Measles, mumps, and chickenpox. Check.

[AtheistCrusader]

123. I've never had either.

So, I plan to discuss what I need to do, vaccinate against chicken pox or what, with my doctor in the near future.

[treestar]

124. I had both

Measles at 4 and chicken pox at 9. I got it, my sister got it, and then the two kids across the street.

Back in the day when there weren't any vaccines - 1960s.

[marble falls]

125. Had both and all five of of my sybs did. The whole neighborhood had both. We were sent to other ....

kids with measles houses to play so all six of us got measles and chicken pox at the same time vs one after another.

I also must have gotten at least four different regimes of polio vaccination from the three shot series on. The Salk, the Sabin, the sugar cube, the drops, the little cup, all waiting in line with all our neighbors to be vaccinated at the elementary school, Artemis Ward, across the street.

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

127. Born in 1939, measles in 1941, very serious...

don't remember it much, but do remember my younger sibs suffering with measles a few years later. Not a disease to be taken lightly!

Have also had chicken pox, 3-day measles, mumps, scarlet fever, none of them too serious for me, but they certainly can be for others.

We worried a lot about polio, but did not get that.

As I recall, during my childhood there were only small-pox inoculations, and vaccines for diphtheria and whooping cough and tetanus. My mother would have made sure I got everything that was available for protection. She remembered kids dying of these diseases.

[KauaiK]

128. 65; not vaccinated nor have I had the Measles...

My brother had polio so I spent a lot of time with grandparents and other adult family members. I never had the measles and had the mumps at 25 when my daughter had them. Measles at my age could be deadly!

I have little tolerance for anti-vaxxers.

[NV Whino]

130. Chicken pox, measles and mumps

And I had the shingles vaccine a few years ago.

[libodem]

131. Both kinds of measles

And chicken pox. The hard measles were in 2nd grade my temp was 104. I remember feeling sick.

I guess the other kind are the ones that make you blind or deaf or harm fetuses.

[another_liberal]

132. I remember when I came down with chicken pox . . .

A couple of neighbor moms brought their kids over to play in my room while I was sick. I thought that was odd, because I really didn't want to play with anyone. Only later did I learn that it had been so their kids could catch the disease as young as possible. It was assumed that everyone would catch it sooner or later, and the chance of serious complications was less if the individual was still a young child when infected.

[Dont call me Shirley]

133. I had both. My sister had whooping cough and no one else in the family got it.

[panader0]

134. I too am 64

When I was a kid, my mom took me to a neighbor's house in order to catch the measles from their infected son.
Her thought was to get it over with.

[C Moon]

135. I had mumps. Saw a photo of me on my mom's lap with my neck as wide as a socker ball.

I'm trying to find out if I had measles...and then looking into getting a vaccine from Kaiser.

[virgogal]

137. I've had both----also chicken pox and mumps.

[Iggo]

138. Never had the measles. Tried to get the chiken pox...

...on one of those neighborhood "let's-get-all-our-kids-sick" slumber parties, but it didn't take. Same thing with the mumps -- exposed to kids who had 'em, but I never got 'em. My sisters got both the mumps and the chicken pox.

EDIT: Oh and I'm 53.

[rosesaylavee]

139. I had both at the same time over Christmas break

when I was 6 years old... mumps followed.

It was not a good time but I survived it. Remember having some quality time with my Mom as all the other siblings were in school. Her friend brought me a Etch-a-Sketch to ease my way. As we never got gifts outside of Christmas or Birthdays, this was a real treat.

I am 56. No vaccines available for these viruses at that time.

[old guy]

142. Had measles, chicken pox, and mumps.

Got shingles shot last fall at my last physical.

[dixiegrrrrl]

143. I had chicken pox, as I was reminded when I got shingles a few years ago.

Don't remember HAVING chicken pox, I was 4 or so.
I do seem to remember having measles, cause everyone believed you had to be kept in a dark room, for some reason, I vaguely remember that.

Both my kids got chicken pox, 2 days apart, they were toddlers. It was thought then, that if one kid got it, don't worry if the other kid gets it too,
they can both get over it around the same time, 2 is as easy to care for as one, etc.
We did not even take them to a Dr. ( Late 60's) because measles and chicken pox were still considered "normal " kid's diseases.
They of course, had had smallpox vaccinations very early on.

[NotHardly]

145. Childhood diseases... yeah, that's what they use to call it... all of it

I had then all. All of them and then some. Parents use to actually take children to the homes of others if there was an outbreak so they could get it, get over it and not worry about getting them when they were older.

[appalachiablue]

147. Can't your DOCTOR test you NOW for immunity, if you can't recall vaccines & child diseases? Think

I saw this recently on a post here, had to be on this subject, child diseases or Vax & Anti-Vax issues.

Sister & I had chick pox; no memory of any measles for us; she got mumps at 15, I didn't -wonder why.
Both rec'd polio & smallpox vax.

I got so sick from a Swine Flu shot in '76 I couldn't get up for 2 days. Read decades later that young soldiers also were laid out by it.

[Roselma]

148. Born in '53, had both

[NEOhiodemocrat]

150. Born in 1950

I had measles as a small child (3-4), don't remember to much about it but my cousin one year older had measles and had some brain damage as a result. I had all five of my children get all their vaccinations for sure.
All my older siblings had chicken pox but my mother insisted I never had, so my doctor did a test and found out I really never did have it. My four oldest children all had chicken pox but our youngest was exposed multiple times and she finally got the chicken pox vaccine when it became available.
I also got the sugar cube polio vaccine and injection one when that became available.

[Rhiannon12866]

151. I had mumps, measles and chicken pox when I was a little kid

Had rubella when I was in college, was probably the worst. A friend of my Dad's had chicken pox as an adult and it was pretty serious, he got very ill and it lasted for quite a long time. When I was a kid, this was normal, though my brother had mumps and measles at the same time and that was worrisome.

I don't understand how some kids are allowed to remain unimmunized. I have a friend who recently returned to college and, since she had no idea what she'd had as a kid, she wasn't allowed to attend classes until she got the MMR vaccine. And she's in her 40s...

[HubertHeaver]

154. I had chicken pox and measles,

both while in the first grade. The only remarkable thing about the measles was I gave them to an uncle who had just been discharged from the Army. He thought he had them when he was little (sometime prior to 1930) but he got them for real in the winter 55-56.

[ChosenUnWisely]

155. I got everything as a kid and the shots too, nowdays I never get sick

[onecaliberal]

156. Had chicken pox. Getting a MMR booster

Next week to be sure any future grandchildren will be protected.

[Freddie]

157. Rubella 3rd grade (1965)

Epidemic that spread through the town and schools like wildfire, nurse sending home many kids a day, I was one of them. Nowadays they would close school. I remember hallucinating from the high fever.
Both my kids were born just before the chicken pox vaccine went on the market and they both got it in daycare. My daughter was only 9 months old, and years later she had titers done when she was in nursing school: she was too young when she had it to develop immunity so she had to get the shot.
I asked my family doc about the shingles shot and my insurance won't pay for it til I'm 60 which is a few years away.

[jamesatemple]

159. I was born in 1940 and had my vaccination in about 1945 (before starting school) for...

diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough). and smallpox. Afterwards, I contracted mumps, measles, chick pox, and polio. I guess I'm lucky I didn't catch the bubonic plague; seems like I caught everything else.

[LiberalEsto]

160. Measles, mumps, chicken pox and German measles

back in the 1950s-60s.

I did get vaccinated for smallpox, which was standard back then. And we were given doses of liquid polio vaccine on sugar cubes back in second or third grade.

[NaturalHigh]

163. Both.

[jamzrockz]

165. We all had the chicken pox

and my brother had mumps. I remember his cheeks looking like he had nuts in his mouth. Only consequence was that my mom had to stay home to look after him.

Btw, we all got the vaccinations for it

[fredamae]

166. If there was a childhood

disease out there back then I Caught it...Mumps, Rubella, Chicken-Pox and Measles.

No vaccines available yet for me and I wouldn't freeking wish that on Anybody...ever.

[kimbutgar]

167. I had measles, mumps and chicken pox

I did vaccinate my son who ended up with autism. That said I would vaccinate my son again but not the combined vaccine but each one separately.

I remember being 5 and having measles. My mom covered the tv with a towel because they told her extra light could make me blind instead it left me with a slight hearing problem which was monitored and I outgrew. I still have some chicken pox scars.

[jwirr]

168. I did as well as mumps and whooping cough. Don't remember the whooping cough - too young.

[rainbobryte]

169. I had both....

The measles was miserable but the pox was like a cross between poison ivy and a bad cold. Calimine lotion, soup/juice and cartoons .

[yuiyoshida]

172. had both and the mumps too

gah, childhood diseases!

[malaise]

173. I had chicken pox as a child

and mumps as an adult - caught it from puppies.

[LiberalElite]

175. I had measles and chicken pox

and mumps and tonsillitis. I'm 64. I got the polio vaccine shot, the polio vaccine on a sugar cube, diptheria and some other disesase's vaccine. I get flu shot every year since I got diagnosed with asthma (25 years ago), and finally after foot dragging for a while due to the cost- I got the shingles vac.

[valerief]

176. I had measles and don't remember being sick. I had tons of spots on my face and thought, 'Gee,

this is how I'll look when I'm a teenager.'

I can't remember how long I was able to stay out of school. I'm sure less than a week. I got to sleep on the couch and watch TV all day. It was great.

Maybe measles was less severe back in the old days.

[GP6971]

177. I had both

and measles screwed up my eyesight.

When I was really young, the polio vaccine came out......remember waiting in line to get a sugar cube laced with the vaccine along with a cup of water.

[valerief]

182. I remember the polio vaccine in school. I think we drank it from Dixie cups. nt

[GP6971]

185. You're right! n/t

[RiverLover]

179. I had chicken pox. Don't remember much about it.

It wasn't a big deal. I definitely wasn't hospitalized b/c of it.

[marlakay]

180. Got very sick from measles in early 60's

And had chicken pox. I had 104 fever and was sick for two weeks with measles though, mom had doctor come to house.

[gopiscrap]

181. I had the measles as a child and

the chicken pox as an adult

[jeff47]

183. Rubella sent me to the hospital at 2.

Too young to remember it myself, but apparently I was not fond of getting dumped into a bathtub full of cold water to bring down my fever while waiting for the ambulance to arrive.

Got chicken pox at something like 4 or 5. My particular case was the usual "feel crappy and itchy for a while".

Both of my kids have every vaccine I can get my pediatrician to give them.

[Bobbie Jo]

184. Had chicken pox in 1971

and mumps in '72. I was 7 yrs old - First grader. As I remember, CP was a very common occurance. Mumps, a little less so.

No measles.

Both of my daughters had CP before they were 6, but nothing else thankfully. Both were on regular immunization schedules.

[HuckleB]

186. I had chicken pox. It was painful. My brother had it much worse.

He ended up with further infections related to the chicken pox. Luckily, he was ok, but some aren't. Same goes for measles.

[flamingdem]

187. Born after 1956 means you need to be re-vaccinated?

This is what I read. That means the vaccine was more effective up to the end of 1956 or?

[xmas74]

194. Chicken pox times two.

Once as an infant and once at age six. I remember the second time-they were everywhere, even in places I didn't know existed. I actually have a scar on my genitals from chicken pox-it was extremely itchy and painful at age six and I wouldn't stop scratching it.

[reorg]

195. had them all

in the early sixties, me and my siblings. These 'child illnesses' were considered normal at the time, we didn't even take any medication. Fond memories of being away from school for several weeks at a time, making drawings and other artwork, it was fun, actually.

[loyalsister]

196. I had Chicken Pox when I was 2

Happy to not remember it. I was vaccinated for measles, though.

[truegrit44]

197. I'm an older old fart than you by a couple of years and......

I had both kinds of measles and mumps as a child and then what really sucked was I got chicken pox when I was 7 months pg with my first born! I remember going to my obgyn to make sure it was chicken pox and he made me come in the back door to his office and they had me wait in a broom closet! He had a waiting room full of pg women and they would have freaked if they saw me and thought it was measles. It was miserable and I often wondered if it would have caused my lst born to be immune to the chic pox, but no he had them almost the worst of all my kids.

My kids being born in the 60's - 70's were vaccinated for all but chicken pox and they all had them.

[MrMickeysMom]

201. Chicken pox, measles and mumps here...

I'm the youngest of 3 born in the 50's and so I got what my brother and sister pretty much did… Recall the physician's examination in the 70's describing the patient has having, "the usual childhood diseases"…

I'm glad we immunize and have flu shots. Meanwhile, all these people who don't educate themselves… I wonder if they keep themselves in exceptionally good physical condition while lamenting how vaccinations may not help them.

[sabrina 1]

202. I had both, so did almost everyone I knew. No big deal. Big Pharma must not have enough

money or something. Next they'll be spreading fear about falling off a tricycle. Did that too and recovered with no problem.

[Mugu]

204. Born in 1953, I had them all except polio. n/t

[F4lconF16]

205. I'm 19 and had it in elementary school.

A bit of scarring, but it was pretty mild.

[laundry_queen]

206. I had chicken pox. So did my kids

The vaccine came out when they were school age and wasn't approved in our area for quite some time. When it was approved, it was optional, not part of the regular immunization schedule. During the time between when I was deciding if I was going to go get the optional vaccine and when they put it as part of the schedule, my kids caught the chicken pox. My oldest was first. She had it very mild - 20 pox total. Then my younger 2 got sick at the same time - they had a very high fever and were miserable for a day or 2, then were fine. A week later when the pox came out, they were totally covered. They had it much worse than my older child. Although, I must say, my older daughter was much more vocal about her discomfort than my younger 2. My older daughter was directly exposed to chicken pox 3 times before that (we are talking toddlers sharing sippy cups in the most contagious state) and she didn't get it. When she did get it, I had (and still don't know) no idea where it came from. But it wasn't a big deal other than the high fever, which was a bit scary but my kids tend to run really high fevers for no reason sometimes so I was used to dealing with it.

I don't remember having the chicken pox. I was not quite 4. My mom said I had it pretty bad but my 9 month old brother barely had any.

My youngest is vaccinated. She was born a couple of years after the other 3 had chicken pox and the vaccine was put into the schedule.

I really wish they'd come up with vaccines for norovirus and hand, foot and mouth disease. I've known kids to die from norovirus and be hospitalized for hand, foot and mouth disease. It's not just vaccine preventable illnesses that send kids to hospitals.

[Hekate]

209. Born in '47, sibs and I had measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox. My poor baby sister ...

...was a very sickly child after that, very susceptible to strep throat (which no one else in the family ever got).

Mom got us all the vaccines available at the time, and when the Salk-Sabin polio vaccine came out, we lined up with the rest of the town for that too.

My husband doesn't remember what childhood diseases he had, but a number of years ago he came down with shingles, so we know for sure he had chickenpox. I made sure to get the vaccine after that.

I appreciate that President Obama has been very straightforward in saying "Get your kids vaccinated," and that the science is proven. We need more of that.

[Douglas Carpenter]

210. I have had both as well as mumps and I'm normal

[madokie]

211. Both. 66 yo

Got the shingles vaccine last fall.
my 76 year old brother had the shingles a couple years ago and according to him it was the worst thing to happen to him. He was in a headon collision when he was in his early 20's with many injuries, weeks in the hospital and months rehabbing. Fell on a bridge job after that where he took out 20 some rungs of a ladder and was run over up to the waist by a crane working for the same bridge company. So he knows pain

[Mariana]

212. I had measles in 1973. My vaccination failed.

One of my classmates also got it, but our little epidemic ended there, because all the other students' vaccines worked. It was an unvaccinated person visiting from another state that gave it to one of us. Supposedly I had a mild case, but it was still bad. I remember a couple of times that I was awake and aware, but I could not move or even speak, I was so weak. After I recovered I went back to school for one day and the next day I had chicken pox.

[pansypoo53219]

213. chicken pox.

[oldandhappy]

214. Both lawyer and client and short a few

I am 75 and about six years ago I got the shingles shot.

[In_The_Wind]

215. I've had both chicken pox and measles.

Yes, I'm old.

[jen63]

216. I was born in '63

and had the chicken pox. It was never determined if I had the measles or not. If I did, it was such a mild case that the doc couldn't diagnose. My brother was born in '66 and whatever I got, he got three times as bad, including the mumps, which I avoided. I was of the generation that believed that tonsils needed to stay in, mine did until I was 21; that was fun! My son had his removed as soon as he had two cases of strep throat within six months. I think he was six or seven.

Would love to get the shingles vaccine, but it is damned expensive. My son has gotten every immunization known to man. I'm a believer. When he was 11, the meningitis vaccine came out and was recommended for 11 and 12 year olds and college aged kids. I had him at the doctor the next week. The doctor wasn't even familiar with the guidelines yet, but I told him I'd seen a commercial on TV. He had the vaccine and didn't have a problem giving it to my son. He had an immunization for Yellow Fever before he went on a service trip to Honduras and anti malarial medication. HPV for boys and men never crossed my mind until he went into the Naval Academy and it was a requirement. Dummy me. Thank you science for these vaccines.

[hobbit709]

218. I was born in 1950. I've had most of them and then some.

Whooping cough, scarlet fever, measles-both kinds, chicken pox. Never had the mumps-could be a natural immunity. My mother never had the mumps either although there was an outbreak at her school and 390 out of 400 girls there caught it. Both my brothers and my sister had the mumps but not me. I seem to have a weird immune system. They never could get a smallpox vaccination to take on me. The only shot I ever had a reaction to was the plague shot-my immune system did not like that one at all. My wife hated me at times, when we first met she had the flu and I'm sleeping in the same bed and I never even sneezed. She got a flu shot every year and still ended up catching the flu every year-me never a sniffle.
The last time I had the flu was the 1968 Hong Kong Flu.

[Frustratedlady]

219. I had chicken pox, measles and mumps.

In fact, I gave my brother the mumps when he was home on furlough during WWII. He came down with the mumps (as well as several other sailors) after he returned. They all thanked me for the time off. I was only 4 or 5, but I still remember that call, as well as the box of Hershey bars he gave me.

[cordelia]

220. Measles and chicken pox

Don't really remember the measles.

The chicken pox though, after the blisters went away I was left with psoriasis. That may have presented later anyway, but the dermatologist at the time felt the pox was the trigger.

In my early 20s, shingles. Would not wish that on anyone, and my case was very mild.

Happily, no psoriatic arthritis.

[Daphne08]

222. I had both

I'm 65 and had Red Measles (that's what some called them back then to differentiate the two types - the other being German Measles or Rubella) when I was 11.

It was terrible (they kept me in a dark room) and I vividly remember how sick I was.

My mother told me just last night that I missed two weeks of school.

Also had chicken pox and still have a couple of scars (the itching was the worst part) from them although that illness was nothing compared to measles - for me, anyway.

I had both my sons vaccinated for everything because I'm old enough to remember the dreaded diseases - also know people who had polio and vividly remember the iron lungs. That still causes shivers to run down my spine. Young people today (and it certainly isn't their fault) have no idea just how serious polio was.

When I was young, I also remember seeing old people with smallpox scars on their faces. Thank God that terrible disease no longer exists in US... thanks to modern medicine and vaccinations!

[w8liftinglady]

225. I had all the child hood illnesses-but a warning.

I had three pregnant women who caught chickenpox from their kids. They all developed fulminant disease which spread to their lungs. They all died after an extended period on a ventilator, as did the fetuses.

Measles is the cause of blindness of most kids in third world nations

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14998696

Chicken pox causes neurologic diseases -stroke, seizures and encephalitis in children under 18

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063723

Diptheria causes heart and lung problems that are fatal in 1 out of five kids.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/diphtheria/fs-parents.html

Tetanus is much worse

http://www.cdc.gov/tetanus/about/symptoms-complications.html

polio is serious not just during primary infection, but also 15-40 years afterwards

http://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/index.htm

So just because we didn't suffer doesn't mean a significant number of kids didn't

[Skidmore]

228. I had both and so did two of my brothers and my sister.

That was four out of eight of us. The younger four were born after vaccines were in use.

My one brother nearly died of measles and spent several weeks in the hospital in very serious condition.

My children were vaccinated as were all of my grandchildren and I would never tell anyone to not vaccinate their children.

[abelenkpe]

229. Chicken pox

No measles. Don't ever want measles either.

[chelsea0011]

230. Had them all...measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough

My parents warned us to not step into puddles to help avoid Polio. Of course, we were also taught to hide under our desks if the bomb fell. Measles was weird. You had to stay in a dark room. My parents also told us that we may have to stay in the closet a couple hours a day but I don't remember that ever happening. Maybe it did. There was always some sort of outbreak happening at one time or another at school.

[Nay]

231. Born in 1951, had measles and chicken pox. Son was born in 1983, had

roseola and chicken pox (had taken measles vaccine).

I was miserable during both diseases (as was my brother), but we escaped without lasting effects. I do remember one boy who went deaf, though.

I never had mumps, though, and wonder if I should be vaccinated as an adult. I'll ask at my next doc visit.