Before considering the Shingles vaccine, I'd suggest you have
some antibody titres run. When I had my shingles, I only had one outbreak of rash. However this summer, I had pain down my right arm again (where the shingles were) and ONE only vesicle.
If you have high titres of Zoster antibodies, I don't see why a vaccine would be necessary.

I don't think it is common to have repeated rash outbreak with shingles. Pain, yes, but rash, is not common. It is possible but not common. Did you have the vesicles tested? To see if they are really shingles and not some other Herpes virus? Simplex is common with rash recurring. Tingling precedes that eruption.
There can be pain too with Simplex.

People with impaired immune systems can have repeated Zoster attacks however.

We have a shingles forum:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...hlight=vaccine

This is the link to the whole forum,
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum91.html

If you use the search function on the first page there, the shingles posts will come up. There aren't very many. This topic has not had many visitors, sorry.