Booster vaccination

Maybee, I found this, dated 1st November, on the British Heart Foundation site:

How long does the booster take to work?
A recent study showed that from seven days onwards, a booster dose of Pfizer is extremely effective at preventing illness from Covid-19.

No large-scale trials have looked at how long a booster dose of Moderna takes to be most effective, but we do know that the vaccines work in similar ways.

You shall see your granddaughter, all being well!

It’ll be 12 days. Hopefully we will be going for a walk outside. I still don’t go into anyone else’s house.

You really don't want Lymphadema Maybee my husband has it and it's not good

I hope you manage it Maybee.
Something to look forward to.

I cannot believe that many of you have had to make an appointment for a booster. I live in NW London and my local pharmacy 10 minutes walk away is doing walk-in boosters and flu jabs.

I did not have mine at the same time because if I had a reaction I felt I would not have known which drug it was.

I was one of the first locally to have had both around a month ago now. I am so grateful they are so organised.

I believe we have walk in places here too if you choose that My husband and daughter had theirs done by GP at our local health centre I have only just been able to book mine when the 5 months come in I do not go to GP as I have no underlying conditions

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Thank you Annie Gransnet for your prompt response. Off to lie in a darkened room. ?.

You have to phone for an appointment at the 'walk in centres' You cannot just turn up as the title suggests! Walk in centres means it is not a surgery. I booked my booster at Boots after getting NHS text. Had flu jab at my surgery though. No side effects.

I went to a walk in centre. Literally just turned up and walked in. Didn’t phone and didn’t have an appointment. In and out in less than 30 mins. Excellent.

After posting about the shambolic treatment of some of those, who are immunocompromised, I must also post some positive news of NHS Scotland.

My daughter in her thirties, who was classed as my career during my period of shielding and received two vaccinations early on in the pandemic to help protect me, today unexpectedly received an appointment for a booster injection from NHS Scotland.

Secondly I had to contact the vaccination helpline today, as had an appointment for next week, which I no longer needed, but it was still showing on the system and would not allow me to cancel.

The agent after dealing with that, the agent checked my record and confirmed that it had been at last, updated to show that I should be called for a booster in six months time.
He also explained that agents were now aware of the difference between a booster and a third primary vaccine.

A good result!

I booked my booster in the early hours this morning! I’m having it on the 10th December, just under six months after my second one.
I got vaccinated a little bit sooner than others as I am my husband’s registered carer.

lemsip

You have to phone for an appointment at the 'walk in centres' You cannot just turn up as the title suggests! Walk in centres means it is not a surgery. I booked my booster at Boots after getting NHS text. Had flu jab at my surgery though. No side effects.

I just turned up at my local walk in centre. So did DH. Some people had got prearranged appointments.

I booked our booster appointments for 3:40 and 3:50 today. We stood up for 4 queues, had the 15 minute wait and left at 5:40, and got home at 6pm. The poor dog was waiting crossed legged.

Can anyone tell me why we had to take off our own masks and wear what was described as a medical mask but was one of the ordinary blue disposable mask? My mask is designed so I can still see with my glasses on and has a special graphite lining. Dh refused to swap his. The rest of us were like sheep!

FannyCornforth

I booked my booster in the early hours this morning! I’m having it on the 10th December, just under six months after my second one.
I got vaccinated a little bit sooner than others as I am my husband’s registered carer.

I hope you have more luck than my husband, Fanny!

He went along this afternoon and was told it couldn't be done as it was 2 days early.

He wasn't 2 days early at all. The chap said that he should have made it for the 12th. Because he'd had his last one on the 12th. No logic at all.

Loads of them were being turned away. Only one man was giving the jabs and he wouldn't change his mind.

And they moan about the uptake being a bit sluggish!

Zoe - ‘loads of them were being turned away’!
Madness!
Had your husband booked the vaccine?

Zoe there were people in my queue being turned a way as well because they were more than 1 day early , the chap on the door said that it was pointless them going inside as they would be turned away upstairs as well.
If they had been a day early he was allowed to let them in.
We don’t have a ‘walk-in centre’ we have a ‘bookable walk in centre’. Apparently!

PS the chap was checking each vaccination card and working out how many days early they were, it took ages and we were getting cold and wet waiting in the queue, so another person had to come down and help him out.

Blimey Oops that’s utterly, utterly ridiculous

the people who say they just turned up, presumably your full details were taken so they know what you've had and when already......
An 84 yr old friend who has not even had a flu jab was turned away from Boots vaccination centre and told he has to book an appointment. I know because I was with him...Not had his booster yet either. has to wait for NHS contact to book.

After phoning my surgery to make enquiries about my vaccines my gp says I’m getting a home visit for both vaccines and it’s nothing to do with them . The nhs have me in their sights so I’m just waiting not very patiently though I’m in fear of needles, no need to worry they’ve a lot on their plate at the moment. I’ve only doubt they’ll eventually get to me.

We are both having our boosters on 1st December although initially DD had his a good month before me.
We have been trying to book them locally for over a week.
No one round here has got any available flu jab appointments.
Not heard a word from the surgery and there is no information on their web site.
No wonder the uptake doesn’t look good!

Just as with schoolchildren the over 65’s should have been vaccinated by now imo I’ve gone from not knowing how to get my vaccine to actually managing to have it done at a walk in centre, being offered a vaccine at my doctors and getting a letter telling me how to book an appointment.

We had texts last week and I then booked for us both for last Sunday. So all done and dusted now.