Having suffered a nasty bout of shingles 3 years ago I`m v. keen to avoid a repeat, according to the (totally illogical) NHS rules at 66 I don't qualify but owing to my medical history my GP decided, after some persuasion, that I do.

I`m fully in favour of vaccinations, side effects sometimes occur but I`ll accept that as an alternative to getting full-blown illness, seems perfectly sensible. However, having had the shingles vaccine yesterday morning I spent the rest of the day feeling progressively worse, mild fever symptoms, headache, general aching and feeling pretty knackered. 24hrs earlier I was out running, did a brisk 25 minutes before going out socialising, felt on top of the world, this morning I`m feeling a bit better but nowhere near well enough to go to the gym or run etc.........vaccine's knocked me from hero to zero!

My advice to anyone who's having the vaccine is to plan it accordingly, expect to have a couple of days doing not very much, if you feel like me you really won't want to!