Should(Does) a person who is injured by a vaccine, have recourse?

Nope!

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/201...7/gvsc0307.htm
This means if a contaminant or adjuvant in a vaccine injures a child or adult, there is no recourse in the courts.

The US compensation program is limited in funds, so any huge epidemic of damage, would consume them rapidly.

This is an explanation of the "recourse"open to vaccine injured people:
http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/01/09...vaccine-court/

Therefore, I think people should read as much as they can before getting a vaccine, to see 1) is it really necessary, 2) has it been tested on many people over time, 3) is there evidence of effectiveness, 4) what does the postmarketing injury record have to say.

MrsD, Thanks for the additional info, but now that you have enterered into the legal arena, let me restate my question/case: Has anyone out there with PN and shingles gotten the zoster shot(s)? And: 1) did it help your shingles?, 2) did you find any relief from the shingles and or your PN? OR have you notticed ANY connection between the shingles cycle and the severe pain cycle of PN?

EXAMPLE: In my case the painful shingles appears on my left rear cheek and serves as a warning sign fo the onset of a severe bout with pain in my left foot, which is my worst PN foot, that lasts for a few days. It, the pain subsides after a few days, but alas, the shingles continue to give me a royal pain in the left touche for longer....more like a week. I apply zinc oxide to the pre shingles area when it begins to itch....pre blister time and keep applying the ZO cream until the shingles subside. That Zinc Oxide relieves my shingles pain. Has anyone, in similar mode, ie PN and shingles gotten the zoster shot? and 2) gotten relief for either the shingles and/or the PN?: 3) Has the zoster vacine worsened either the shingles and/or the PN? MrsD, do you have any thoughts, observations, or advices?
Thanks everyone for your support.
Robin
see also my first post in this section on vaccines

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.

Here is an interesting article on flu vaccines, efficacy and
reactions:

http://vran.org/about-vaccines/speci...a-the-vaccine/

autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants:

This diagnosis has just been added to a list of autoimmune
diseases: (2013) the name is abbreviated as ASIA



better link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23557271

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content...015-11-101.pdf