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2nd Booster...

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farview Sat 03-Sept-22 10:24:29

Just opinions wanted..
I'm really not sure about having one...I haven't felt 100% since having the 1st booster... also had covid in March...

SuzieHi Tue 13-Sept-22 07:59:36

Over 65year olds can now book appointments on line or by phone- you don’t have to wait for a text or email

Maggiemaybe Tue 13-Sept-22 07:51:59

Our flu jabs are booked in at our GP surgeries for October. I had a look at the Covid booster site yesterday, supposedly just out of interest, and ended up booking ours for tomorrow at a local hub. We’re going abroad in a fortnight and it seems sensible to get them done before we fly.

Pittcity Tue 13-Sept-22 07:05:58

Our surgery have been texting DH for a fortnight. He has finally booked his Covid booster for next week. We have flu jabs booked for next month.

Esspee Tue 13-Sept-22 06:57:26

We are to have our jabs at 9am today. Apparently we can have flu and covid vaccinations together which will save time and money.
Last time they offered both together I declined as I was concerned about reactions but since then hundreds of thousands of people have taken both without problems.

Allsorts Tue 13-Sept-22 06:47:34

Ive had three Covid vaccines and a booster and had Covud, booked in for my Flue jab November.
Are we supposed to keep having these Covid Boosters until there's no more cases?

Enid101 Mon 12-Sept-22 17:21:39

I’ve just had my second booster. Gave me a headache for 24 hours then I was fine. I hope it will reduce my symptoms if I catch covid.

Jane71 Mon 12-Sept-22 17:00:49

We'll both be having the jab once we're offered it.'

BlueBelle Mon 12-Sept-22 13:14:11

But it’s so early as is the flu jab I will reconsider end of October start of November I only had my fourth jab three + months ago it f I m having another I want it to last through the winter not wear out in January and need another and another and another

twinnytwin Mon 12-Sept-22 13:08:19

DH and I are having ours on 27/9 - covid (my 5th) and flu. Had shingles jab a couple of months ago too. Bring 'em on!

M0nica Mon 12-Sept-22 12:40:39

I intend to have everything on offer, even though I am down with COVID at the moment.

Kate1949 Mon 12-Sept-22 12:38:25

Over 65s can book their booster online from today. Some pharmacies are doing 'walk ins'.

Zonne Sun 04-Sept-22 15:26:13

growstuff, sorry, that was just me being sarcastic. There is no evidence of any such thing (barring one very small, not peer-reviewed study, which suggests a low level of king -term flu effects) whereas the ONS suggest 3.1% of the population have long Covid.

Teacheranne Sun 04-Sept-22 15:21:29

I’m waiting to be called for my booster, friends in their 70s and 80s have just been contacted so I’m guessing they are working through the age groups as they did before.

I understand that this vaccine has been tweaked to include some protection against Omicron as well as the original Covid which sounds good. I’m slightly wary about having my flu jab at the same time as I always have a bruise and swollen arm after any injection and two jabs together could be painful but I’ll just go along with it. I’m sure it will be fine even if I’m a bit tender!

Aveline Sun 04-Sept-22 14:57:40

GrammyGrammy see my previous post.

Razzamatazz Sun 04-Sept-22 12:37:32

I was surprised to get a text about my flu jab/booster, got straight in for 4 October.

I paid £35 for my flu jab last year as the surgery didn't have any availability at all.

growstuff Sun 04-Sept-22 12:33:23

Zonne

Given the similarities, I’m really amazed that, over the years, there hasn’t been more attention paid to the 3% of the population of the UK who have long flu.

Do you have the link to any details about that?

Luckygirl3 Sun 04-Sept-22 11:33:39

Having flu and 4th covid jab in 24th. I am very grateful that these are on offer free to me and others like me.

It will reduce my chances of getting either illness, either badly or at all, and I will increase the pool of vaccinated people to help protect others. There is no question about it in my mind.

How very lucky we are.

GrammyGrammy Sun 04-Sept-22 11:29:00

Aveline

Good point Esspee. I hope they maintain these requirements so we don't come up against unvaccinated people.

If you are vaccinated how does it affect you what another person chooses?!

annodomini Sun 04-Sept-22 11:28:54

I've had every vaccination going since I was born and don't intend to stop now. I still have a scar on my left arm from my very first smallpox vaccination when I was a tiny baby! I had a horrid reaction to a diphtheria 'jag' when I was 10, but that didn't put me off. Science has given us these miracles.
We should be - and I am - grateful that we live in a time when we don't have to dread that our grandchildren will be lost to diphtheria, grow up disabled by polio, blinded by measles, ravaged by TB, suffer learning difficulty through a mother's rubella. I could go on, but I'm sure you'll get my drift...

henetha Sun 04-Sept-22 11:26:50

I'm definitely having the new booster as soon as they offer me it. These vaccines decline in efficiency as time goes by, so it makes perfect sense to me to have the boosters.

Zonne Sun 04-Sept-22 11:17:48

Given the similarities, I’m really amazed that, over the years, there hasn’t been more attention paid to the 3% of the population of the UK who have long flu.

Kalu Sun 04-Sept-22 10:53:20

We were both invited to have the shingles vaccination which we accepted. After recent major surgery, DH contracted a mild dose of shingles. According to his consultant, and I agree, without the vaccine, chances are he would have suffered a worse case than he did.
How much worse we would all have been if vaccines for example, polio, German measles etc. hadn’t been discovered?

growstuff Sun 04-Sept-22 10:46:17

volver

^But coronavirus is similar to flu, doctors say so.^

Do they? Got a link? From a proper doctor who knows what they are talking about?

Note: saying they have equivalent mortality rates doesn't hack it.

But flu and Covid don't have equivalent mortality rates!

Covid has generally had higher mortality rates than flu and pneumonia combined. It's possible to have pneumonia not caused by flu.

I don't have an issue if people choose not to be vaccinated, but I'm fed up with false information.

Aveline Sun 04-Sept-22 10:35:16

We always used to be offered the flu vaccine at work and I always used to refuse it. However, one year I got flu and was so ill that it was frightening. Ever after that I've had the flu vaccine whenever offered.
I had all the Covid vaccinations plus booster and was glad I had. I was found on routine testing to have Covid but I'd never have known otherwise. If I hadn't had the vaccinations I could have been very ill.

25Avalon Sun 04-Sept-22 10:28:50

Good point Volver. I’m a bit nervous thanks to all the scaremongering but will have the booster as will dh. The possible consequences and probabilities of having the booster outweigh those of not having it. We have been offered the flu vaccination but not covid yet.