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Everyone in our family has received the vaccines.

My DH works in health care, and he must get other shots as well. (Hep, Flu, etc.)

Yes, you can only get shingles if you have had the chicken pox. I had shingles a few years back, and I was extremely lucky as they were not painful at all...just itchy. I know of others who have suffered miserably with them. I was given the anti-virals. I was terrified that I would pass the chicken pox onto my children.

My BIL caught chicken pox as an adult, and he is so very lucky he wasn't hospitalized because he had them so bad.