Measles, Mumps and Chickenpox

[Anonymous]

I'm 55. Had measles and chicken pox. Still have the scar on my face from the chicken pox.

[Anonymous]

I am 34. I had chicken pox but was vaccinated against the other two. I was amazed when our ped informed us that they have a chicken pox vaccine now -- I had no idea.

[Anonymous]

I'm in my 30s, only had chicken pox. My mom is in her 60s and deaf in one ear from childhood mumps.

[Anonymous]

I had all three as a child--plus whoopping cough. I'm assuming I wasn't vaccinated (my parents were pretty hippy-dippy). I've since gotten "boosters". No side effects, thankfully, and I've enjoyed very good health all my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had all three as a child--plus whoopping cough. I'm assuming I wasn't vaccinated (my parents were pretty hippy-dippy). I've since gotten "boosters". No side effects, thankfully, and I've enjoyed very good health all my life.

I'm 40, BTW.

[Anonymous]

38 and never had any. Was separated from my brother who got chicken pox when I was a newborn. Then never got. Vaccine was mandatory for me to enter college so got it at 18. Had my titers checked before TTC and had no immunity to chicken pox so got the vaccine again at 31. Both kids vaccinated. DH is 40 and has had chicken pox and shingles.

[Anonymous]

I'm 54. Only had the chicken pox, and I still have the scars. It was horrid. I was vaccinated for the other two, so never got them. I'm stunned to hear that people my age got the measles and mumps when you could have been vaccinated. I don't know anyone who had either.

My dad had the mumps twice as an adult. He never could have children -- I'm adopted.

[Anonymous]

I'm in my mid fifties, and had measles and mumps as a young child. I had chicken pox as an adult. These were all common diseases when I was a kid. I don't remember measles and german measles vaccines being offered until I was around 11.

[Anonymous]

OP you are an idiot and an asshole. Immunize your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I caught chicken pox after a trip to Scandinavia at age 30. I caught mumps after a trip to Belgium at age 37. Still waiting on measles, but staying away from Disneyland!

I'm 55, by the way.

Not sure OP is an anti-vaxxer. But PP should definitely get an MMR if their health allows. This isn't some sort of badge of honor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you are an idiot and an asshole. Immunize your kids.

This is Op. My DC was vaccinated years ago. What makes you think she was not? Look at my age. There were no vaccines when I was a child.

[Anonymous]

37 here. I had the pox when I was only a couple of weeks old. Mom says I only had one or two on my legs. (She didn't breastfeed me BTW.) not sure if the mildness of the case lead to my developing shingles in 3rd garden but that shit was hell on earth. I'm petrified of it cropping up again and eve though in a way I think chicken pox would be fine for my kids to get I vaccinated them as soon as possible because shingles is no joke.

[Anonymous]

Op again. I was born in 1951. The measles vaccine was first available in 1963. Mumps vaccine was licensed in 1967. 1995 was when chickenpox vaccine was introduced. These childhood diseases were very common while I was growing up, as there were no vaccines for them.

[Anonymous]

I had chickenpox, pretty much every kid in early elementary had it at some point that I can remember. My mom had measles.

I'm 36.

[Anonymous]

I was born in 1967. I knew no one in my age bracket who had measles or mumos. Most had chicken pox. I got chicken pox in grad school. That was a few years before the vaccine came out.

Incidentally, if you were vaccinated for measles or mumps before 1971, the vaccines we received wereless effective than the modetn MMR. I had my titers checked, and I was no longer immune to mumps, so I got a booster at CVS.