Flu & Covid jab together?!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.....

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.

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.

Had mine done a week ago and no ill effects

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.

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.

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

Had mine together and the only issue I had was a bit of an achy upper arm (same with my husband)

I had both one in each arm about 30 mins apart. No side effects as such other than sore arm. I have heard people having more side effects with Moderna which seems to be the current common vaccine this time. In the Information sheet it does say its been adjusted to the current strain do maybe that's why.

My wife and I had both jabs, one in each arms. No problems for either of us not even a slightly sore arms which I have had in the past. I would do it again to avoid the extra appointment.

Had mine together last year - no side effects

My husband and I both had our flu and Covid jabs on the same day, but different arms. No problems at all. Will do the same again next year.

I had them together last yearwith no ill effects. I need to book this year's but so far my GP have offered dates I couldn't do and are not offering covid at all, so I gather I need to book online. Don't worry about having them together. I just made sure I had the covid one in the arm I don't sleep on as if I've had post injection pain the covid has been worse, but last year there wasn't even much pain at all. As I reached 70 recently I have booked the shingles jab too.

My husband and I had both, one in each arm, no side effects apart from slightly sore injection site for a few days.

DH had both. One in each arm. No real side effects other than one arm felt like he had been punched by "Our 'Enry", as is usual with some vaccinations.

Just had both mine today, in each arm. I’ve had them both before and not had any reaction so fingers crossed 🤞 I won’t this time.

I only had the flu jab this time and had a strong reaction. Felt quite unwell for two days. I’ve decided after everything I’ve heard about the Covid injections not to have another one. But in any case I won’t have two together as I let my body have a rest in between. No rush. We have a walk in service here so it’s not a problem.

I had both together last week, in the same arm. no problems at all . DH felt a bit off for a day, friend was a bit nauseous … it’s all individual . I just wanted both as quickly as possible.

Harmonypuss

Always have mine together, and in the same arm. Apparently, as long as they're done about 2cm apart, it's fine to do it.

Have I got it wrong then? - as I thought/feel pretty certain that jabs (of any description) go into the bloodstream and it's one continuous loop throughout the body. Therefore anything that got put in one section of the bloodstream would instantly head as short a distance away as 2 cm and wouldn't take very long at all before it headed all round every bit of the bloodstream......