Flu & Covid jab together?!

Both done in the same arm a couple of weeks ago - sore arm but apart from that nothing. Same last year as well.

I had the RSV one and for the first time had a reaction of a sore itchy arm for two weeks afterwards and had to wait 4 weeks to have the flu and Covid ones. So far I’ve never had a reaction to either one apart from a sore arm for a few days.

May I suggest that if you book to have the two together You do it when you have most of the following week free.
Nearly two weeks ago I had both at the same time but it was the covid one that gave me the bother. I had them done on a Saturday morning. We were having nine people to lunch on the Monday. We left the doctor's and did the shopping. Came home had lunch and I started to prepare a very nice casserole for Monday's lunch, As the afternoon went on I became more and more ill. By 5pm I could barely stand. By mid evening I became very cold and started to shake violently. I went to bed at 9pm and was really ill until Wednesday. Obviously the lunch had to be cancelled. I could not face opening the fridge and looking at food. Luckily the casserole was fine and I froze it into lots of 2 people servings. My husband plowed through 8 portions of lemon and marscapone cheesecake over four days and we threw most of a carton of tiramisu away.
We buy our sausages from a specialist supplier about once every one or two months. We had bought some the day before the jabs. I attempted to freeze them last Thursday 6 days after buying them. The smelled slightly odd and I threw them all away. They are very expensive sausages. So what have I learned? Before having jabs make sure nothing needs freezing that is in the fridge. Don't invite guests for at least a week afterwards. There is a limit to how much tender-stem broccoli two people can consume before it starts to go yellow when you were expecting to feed 11 people.

Had mine done a week ago and no ill effects

Think I must have been incubating something because I had a week of feeling really rough after having the two together - not had a problem before. Don’t think I will risk the two together again.

Reading today about a man aged about 50 whose life has been ruined by the Covid jab. Since he had it he is in such terrible pain that he has had to stop all his hobbies (running, guitar etc) and stop work.

His Consultant has told him it is a bad reaction to the Covid jab. He will now join the others who are seeking compensation from the Govt.

There's one heck of a lot of people that have become ill or died from it Liaangel10 - once one starts reading into it and bearing in mind the vast majority of people that happened to have not reported it. Logic tells me that something developed as quickly as these jabs were can't possibly have been fully researched. A lot of undertakers embalming people that have died have reported great big clots (and shown pictures of them) that they've never seen in peoples veins prior to those jabs coming along and some of them showed examples of them (eek!). Me - I'm only too glad I'm of a cynical nature and forward-thinking oriented in my outlook generally.

At least the only comeback at me in that respect has been the social one that various other people have reported to me of having been unjustly thrown out of social groups that decided to ostracise those of us who didn't have it. But, as I've made a much bigger replacement social group then I guess that's not too much of a loss.....

Can we please see your proof for such statements Cariad preferably from a reputable source, not just hearsay? From what I’ve read the vast majority of people may have had a minor reaction and are grateful for avoiding serious illness or worse.

had mine a few days apart. why have them together? if you have a reaction you wouldn't know from what!

We had them together because we were going on holiday a few days later and wanted the protection before we went.

CariadAgain

There's one heck of a lot of people that have become ill or died from it Liaangel10 - once one starts reading into it and bearing in mind the vast majority of people that happened to have not reported it. Logic tells me that something developed as quickly as these jabs were can't possibly have been fully researched. A lot of undertakers embalming people that have died have reported great big clots (and shown pictures of them) that they've never seen in peoples veins prior to those jabs coming along and some of them showed examples of them (eek!). Me - I'm only too glad I'm of a cynical nature and forward-thinking oriented in my outlook generally.

At least the only comeback at me in that respect has been the social one that various other people have reported to me of having been unjustly thrown out of social groups that decided to ostracise those of us who didn't have it. But, as I've made a much bigger replacement social group then I guess that's not too much of a loss.....

Plenty of people died from covid and plenty (including me) are still struggling with long covid.

CariadAgain

There's one heck of a lot of people that have become ill or died from it Liaangel10 - once one starts reading into it and bearing in mind the vast majority of people that happened to have not reported it. Logic tells me that something developed as quickly as these jabs were can't possibly have been fully researched. A lot of undertakers embalming people that have died have reported great big clots (and shown pictures of them) that they've never seen in peoples veins prior to those jabs coming along and some of them showed examples of them (eek!). Me - I'm only too glad I'm of a cynical nature and forward-thinking oriented in my outlook generally.

At least the only comeback at me in that respect has been the social one that various other people have reported to me of having been unjustly thrown out of social groups that decided to ostracise those of us who didn't have it. But, as I've made a much bigger replacement social group then I guess that's not too much of a loss.....

I am sorry, much of the above post is nonsense. The methods of developing vaccines has changed completely over the last 20 years. This link explains the very different methods now used that are entirely different from those used in the past. www.pfizer.co.uk/news/news-and-featured-articles/behind-science-what-is-an-mrna-vaccine and completely invalidate the comments made in paragraph 1 above.

These vaccines were extensively tested on volunteers with all kinds of different medical conditions. My DH was one of the many who volunteered to be vaccinated and monitored to see how he responded to it. He received the real vaccine not the placebo. These were, of course properly conducted, double-blind tests. Several seperate trials with different volunteer groups.

I am not sure where you are getting your information Cariadagain but it should only come from peer reviewed medical literature, not social media. Or if you are reading it on social media, you should ask for the scientific research behind their claims and whether it is fully peer reviewed and substantiated by others undertaking the same research.

The first strains of Covid caused blood clots, which were one of the reasons so many people died.