Covid booster

No. Had mine last week. Sore arm overnight, no other side effects

Thanks for all the comments on the pneumonia jab. It’s weird I haven’t been offered it especially since I had the illness this year. I’ll make enquiries. I had my Covid booster today. I can’t believe the scaremongering going on in the thread.

Thank goodness for the sensible posters on here!

I do hope none of the anti vaxxers and/or those who think it is just like a cold become seriously ill and regret their foolishness choices.

songstress60

I will NOT have any more Covid jabs. Each time I have the jab I am in bed for 2 or 3 days as it makes me so ill. Covid has mutated now, so it's just like a cold. Anyone who is afraid let them stay inside, and let the rest of us have a normal life. No more isolation or lockdowns. Covid was NO accident. I think the lockdowns and self-isolation was an affront to civil liberties

No no no! Covid can never be just like a cold!

Covid can cause long-term and permanent organ damage which colds and flu do not. Just about any organ in the body can be infected and damaged.

I’ve just read through a little more, my daughter (39) and her husband (42) would testify that this is no ‘mild cold’. They are for a healthy people, great diets and very physically fit. Both have been )daughter still
Is) extremely unwell. Unable to care for the children and look horrendous. Make no mistake, this variant is horrible.

Had my Covid a week ago and flu jab tomorrow, I will grab anything offered. My partner has end of life cancer so really no brainer. I had no affects from the Covid in section at all, did not even feel the needle go in, queued only 2 minutes and done. What is there not to like.

Maggiemaybe

^Any medication we collect from the GP has warnings of possible side effects, minor or serious. With covid jabs you get no such instructions.^

What nonsense. We had our jab this week and we were given two leaflets, each with four full pages of information. One from the NHS about the Autumn programme in general, the other specific to the vaccine we had, and giving full details of every known side effect, including how common, or not, each one was.

It’s entirely up to you whether you have the vaccine, but why are you spreading misinformation?

It’s most definitely NOT misinformation. All we ever got was a small card with the jab date and jab type which we then took to have the next 2 recorded.

biglouis

I dont believe all that doctors tell me but if there is anything going free then I will grab it if i think its of value to me. I just arranged for the GP surgery to do mine as a home visit.

Here’s a doctor who died from the covid jab.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dr-stephen-wright-death-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-b2323265.html

We had ours yesterday, our daughter-in-law has breast cancer so we want to protect her as much as we can. Our flu vaccination is booked for mid October. We have had pneumonia and shingles vaccinations a while ago. Now we have turned 80 we feel we should take any protection we are offered.

We just had our Covid vaccinations this afternoon. Pfizer again, our fifth Pfizer. The best protection is said to be for the next six months and so that will cover us for our trip to New Zealand after Christmas. We’ll get our flu jabs in two or three weeks.
Thank you to the government and NHS. I appreciate that these things are available to us.

I wish some on here would stop calling people who disagree with them “anti vaxxers”.

I am not anti vax. My kids had all theirs at the appropriate age and I have had all mine including flu jab. I just don’t want any more covid jabs, having already had 3.

Primrose53

I wish some on here would stop calling people who disagree with them “anti vaxxers”.

I am not anti vax. My kids had all theirs at the appropriate age and I have had all mine including flu jab. I just don’t want any more covid jabs, having already had 3.

My sentiments exactly

The case of the doctor who died is very sad. He was very young, only 32, and he had the Astra Zeneca jab. Unfortunately it was found that young people shouldn’t have the Astra Zeneca vaccine because a tiny, but significant, number of young people developed blood clots and some of those did die, although the majority recovered with treatment. Astra Zeneca is no longer given to young people because of these unfortunate, but rare, side effects.
We need to remember that all medications carry side effects. There is no medication yet that has not caused side effects, sometimes serious, to some people. However the benefits that vaccinations/medications have brought to society have been immeasurable and they have saved far more lives than they have killed.

Its not about disagreeing, it's about the misinformation which is being spread and trying to influence posters, which concerns me.
If someone doesn't wish to have vaccinations, that is their business. I really don't care.
However, I will be not influenced by some of the nonsense posted on this thread.

Furthermore, to clarify, I personally am talking about Covid antivaxxers in particular, as opposed to antivaxxers in general.
You know exactly what is meant on this thread Primrose.

Marydoll

Its not about disagreeing, it's about the misinformation which is being spread and trying to influence posters, which concerns me.
If someone doesn't wish to have vaccinations, that is their business. I really don't care.
However, I will be not influenced by some of the nonsense posted on this thread.

Furthermore, to clarify, I personally am talking about Covid antivaxxers in particular, as opposed to antivaxxers in general.
You know exactly what is meant on this thread Primrose.

If you don’t care whether people choose not to have the covid jab then don’t reply to their posts.

I haven’t spread any misinformation either! you’re the one who keeps posting stuff like “thank goodness for the sensible posters on here.” Like you are SO sensible because you decided to carry on having covid jabs. Then you call it “foolishness” not to have the jab and cross it through. How childish is that?

Marydoll is very sensible to have the Covid vaccinations. She is clinically extremely vulnerable. If we all had the vaccinations too, we would be helping Marydoll because we would be less likely to succumb to Covid ourselves and possibly pass it to her. That’s how vaccines work, they provide herd immunity because most of the people have had them. Because vaccination levels have dropped to only 80+% instead of 90+% we are seeing a measles revival in this country. The lowest rate of vaccination of the MMR is found in London, where by coincidence there are higher numbers of measles cases than other parts of the country. Vaccinations don’t just protect us, they protect others.

And I know that people can still get Covid after their vaccine, they just get it more mildly, but that is only in the first six months after vaccination. After that, immunity wanes, but the vaccination still provides some protection.

I had both flu and Covid jabs in one go (each arm) yesterday. Apart from tenderness, no side effects whatsoever!

Primrose53

Marydoll

Its not about disagreeing, it's about the misinformation which is being spread and trying to influence posters, which concerns me.
If someone doesn't wish to have vaccinations, that is their business. I really don't care.
However, I will be not influenced by some of the nonsense posted on this thread.

Furthermore, to clarify, I personally am talking about Covid antivaxxers in particular, as opposed to antivaxxers in general.
You know exactly what is meant on this thread Primrose.

If you don’t care whether people choose not to have the covid jab then don’t reply to their posts.

I haven’t spread any misinformation either! you’re the one who keeps posting stuff like “thank goodness for the sensible posters on here.” Like you are SO sensible because you decided to carry on having covid jabs. Then you call it “foolishness” not to have the jab and cross it through. How childish is that?

Primrose, not as childish, as the fact that you appear to have a bee in your bonnet about me.
Without vaccinations, I would probably have died, because I am immunocompromised, therefore I will do everything possible to stay safe. I am pretty resilient and no shrinking violet, but it is not a very pleasant situation to be in, so of course I am going to be SO sensible,
Why do I feel I am back in the school playground, dealing with name calling?
Personal insults only detract from the seriousness of this thread.

I may not care about whether you, an anonymous poster, have the vaccinations or not, but as already stated, I do care about uninformed and ill informed statements, such as no information is given out with Covid vaccinations. I have always been given a leaflet. When I had to have an anti viral infusion in hospital for Covid, after catching it from someone who was asymptomatic, I was also given a leaflet with all the information, including side effects.
Please read again carefully, what I wrote and don't put your own spin on it.
I wonder if you just like to wind up me posters.

I have never expected anyone to consider, nor make allowances for my vulnerability (over which, unfortunately I have no control) and have vaccinations on my account. I am really not that important.
The only person who can keep me safe is me, It is my sole responsibility, supported thankfully by my clinicians.
However, I am amazed at my family and the number of posters on this forum, who have shown humanity in not only thinking of keeping themselves safe, but also thinking of others.

Finally, I have as much right to post my opinions as anyone, including you. Since when did you become a member of the thread police? This is a public forum, well it was the last time I checked.
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Primrose53

Maggiemaybe

Any medication we collect from the GP has warnings of possible side effects, minor or serious. With covid jabs you get no such instructions.

What nonsense. We had our jab this week and we were given two leaflets, each with four full pages of information. One from the NHS about the Autumn programme in general, the other specific to the vaccine we had, and giving full details of every known side effect, including how common, or not, each one was.

It’s entirely up to you whether you have the vaccine, but why are you spreading misinformation?

It’s most definitely NOT misinformation. All we ever got was a small card with the jab date and jab type which we then took to have the next 2 recorded.

I had my jab this afternoon. I was handed an information sheet while I was waiting.

I intend to have the booster, but my surgery is offering both the covid and the flu at the same time. I will not be having the flu one as well. I consider that one at a time is better allowing my body to deal with one and then deciding about the flu one later. Over the years it always seems as though yes you have the vacinne against flu type A but then in your area it is flu typeB and you still get it!!

last year i had the flu and covid jabs at same time and was ill with flu like symptoms neg on covid for a week after but as i have copd i will have both again this year booked for mid October but trying to get the flu one done in next week which is provong hard in my area all seems booked

I had my 8th covid jab (immunocompromised) at 9.00 am on Thursday. At 9.00 pm on Thursday evening I felt hot, achey and very tired with a stonker of a headache. Basically have slept almost constantly since then. Water and paracetamol only.

But have woken up this morning feeling a lot better. Never had that reaction before apart from the very 1st one.
I was not given a leaflet. I had the jab at the local pharmacy. Of course I can Google side effects etc. But not everyone can.

I had my Covid jab yesterday (under 65 but asthmatic) and the flu one last week. I have a sore arm this morning and feel a bit under the weather but having had Covid in the summer I don’t want to get it again. I will have had all boosters offered and will continue to do so, both for my own protection and in case I get it and infect others.

I’ve got an extremely achey arm this morning so I’m glad I declined the flu vaccine offered as well yesterday. I’ll be getting that in a couple of weeks.