infection after Covid jag

SUNNY SUSIE - What the h*ck? "NHS practice not to use swabs" !!!!! I should think it is more efficient - ie it will save them all of 10 seconds avoiding that obvious necessity. They steadily get worse and worse at actually not helping peoples health at all. I've been caught out more than once by NHS only bothering about itself and blow the patient - and know one has to provide ones own local anaesthetic cream before any needle insertion (eg blood test) as they won't even tell people they need this - still less provide it.

Bear in mind that many women get fitted with contraceptive loops without being given local anaesthetic beforehand (as they should be) - because they don't care about the fact the woman will almost certainly be in lots of pain. They just tell her she won't be!!!!!! I had a VERY graphic description years back from someone I know who went in very trustingly for that - and then realised it's done in a way for their benefit (ie no local anaesthetic) and blow the poor patient.

Got caught out by the Welsh NHS not bothering to have leaflets on "how to have a blood test" and gone in for a sample first thing in the morning after obeying the "No breakfast first" rule they told me and they acted like it was my fault my veins were obviously dehydrated - as no-one had said "Do have some water to drink first though". Cue for I looked up Welsh NHS advice (which always seems to be separate to English NHS advice!!!!) and it said nothing either. Cue for I then looked up English NHS advice afterwards - much easier to find, much clearer, did say to drink water first!

Mental note to self - always look up English NHS advice before going anywhere near any healthcare person.

But I suppose it's one step up from the podiatrist here who did a health questionnaire over the phone with me and got to the "Got any allergies question?" and I replied with "One thing only - Lanacane ointment". At which point she started saying "We can't do the operation then for ingrown toenail - you'll have to have it done miles and miles away and under general anaesthetic - in case you react". I pointed out "Nope it's LIDOcaine that is used for this. Totally different thing to LANAcane". She wouldnt have it....she even called me mad!!!!!! I have no idea why I then swopped from what I then realised was someone who is what they call "first language Welsh" to an English podiatrist - even though he is quite some distance away and I had the job done/just as normal/no problem/what I'm used to. It all took about 15 months longer than it should have/would have normally to get it all sorted out one way or another until I decided to pay out a very expensive taxi fare and see the one who was first language English - because he is English!!! Job done - no problem.

Wishes I'd remembered that though I never ever have local anaesthetic (that Lidocaine) at the dentist - I had been told by my intuition to agree to it for once at my last English dental appointment (as usual I had no idea why - but I've learnt to follow intuition instructions by now). duh! and I rang them and asked when I remembered that fact belatedly - and got told "You were fine/absolutely fine with it". Wishes I remembered I'd taken that precaution before moving - as I could have turned round to her and just said "I've had Lidocaine before and they said fine fine" and she wouldnt have rowed with me and I wouldnt have had a very expensive taxi fare to the other guy who understood me perfectly.

I noticed when I had my flu jab recently that the nurse did not wipe my arm with an alcohol swab beforehand. I queried this because I remembered in the past injections were invariably given on swabbed arms. She told me it is now NHS practice not to use swabs and its more efficient. Couldnt get into a discussion as I was leaving the room at that point (presumably in the interests of efficiency of patient throughput). I spent a while worrying because I had been cleaning out the pond before I went to the surgery. I couldnt remember whether pond water had splashed on my arm. All was fine but I made a mental note to wash my arm thoroughly immediately before any future injections.

CariadAgain

SillyNanny - your son could probably tell you a LOT more about what has happened to people who had it - up to and including heart attacks.

I'm so glad I decided at the outset never ever to have it - before I started watching the effects on people from it.

I don’t personally know anyone who had a severe reaction to the Covid jab at all. I do know that the postman who is an anti vaccine advocate lost his mother from Covid as she refused to have it having being persuaded by her son. He has inherited her house so he didn’t seem too sad at the time. I am more interested in the great developments in immunotherapy research showing promising effects of the covid vaccine during treatment. Considering one in two people are like to have cancer across a lifetime this is good news for all of us.

Sorry to hear that monami.

I'm only too aware "It coulda been me". Coming from this very very heavy duty heart attack family I'm in and I've certainly not forgotten finding out who would be lined-up to jab me if I'd agreed and, whilst telling them to never "invite" me for a jab (as I'd heard of people being hassled a dozen or so times after saying "no") I said "By the way - if I were going to let you = which one would you use?". Got it in one- Astra Zeneca is what they would have used.

So the one I gather they withdrew - as it was causing so many heart attacks. Hmmmmm.....and I expect I'd be dead by now if I'd agreed.

As it was - I did wonder why I had a cough that went on for FOUR weeks!! and it must have been around that time my left ear went deaf on me. I got told later by an osteopath/cranial osteopath I went to subsequently that he could tell that cough and the breathlessness I still had at that time meant I had had Covid and that cough must have been it. Wishes I'd not been wondering a bit about Iv*rmectin at that time and I had some but didn't take it (kicks my own backside for that one!). I would like/still hope to get my hearing back in my left ear - as at around that time I got hearing loss from nerve damage from a virus in that ear (been examined after Lockdown! and told that at least it's not "old age hearing loss" and it was down to a virus of some description).

But yep.....and my sympathies indeed on that - as I have heard of a lot of that - though few of the people I know have had that jab even the once and I'm not aware of any of them getting Covid at all despite that. I did get told there were a few that lied and said they hadnt had the jab - but they had actually had it. But I think most of us I know didnt do so.

4th covid jab killed my very fit hubby

4th covid jab killed my hubby7

SillyNanny - your son could probably tell you a LOT more about what has happened to people who had it - up to and including heart attacks.

I'm so glad I decided at the outset never ever to have it - before I started watching the effects on people from it.

Have felt even more tired than usual since having the latest covid jab. I get fatigue & pain from arthritis but now feel a lot worse after the jab. Didn't think of that being the reason until my son read about it online. Feel bad, take a remedy, react to remedy & find another remedy on & on! Think I wont bother anymore!

nanna8

Last time I had a Covid jab I caught Covid 2 weeks later which makes you wonder. Maybe it was a faulty batch ?

Most vaccines do not actually prevent you ever contracting the illness, but should and usually do make it less severe if you should contract it.

I think it takes two weeks to become effective …

Nanna8, the jab does not protect you from getting Covid, its task is to lessen the attack should you catch it.

thanks Charleygirl...I never knew about that...
Bluebell I hope your friends husband is home soon, it just shows that you can never be too careful.

I would suggest he had some germs on his skin that were then transferred into his arm
My friend nearly lost her husband last month to sepsis from the tiniest of insignificant scratches he s been in hospital about 3 weeks and only just getting back to somewhere near normal

pably if one has a joint replacement, one should protect those joints if one has an infection anywhere. If, for example, one has a shoulder replacement but the big toe is infected, due to circulation of blood, one must look after the rest of the body. Does that make sense?

That is something which should be mentioned after a replacement on discharge but I suspect many staff don't know!

I paid to have the jab but was a lot of money and if I now get it anyway, which I could, it all seems a bit of a fiasco, of course I may not get it as severely but can understand people preferring not to stump up £80/£90
for the jab and taking their chances. I have no choice because am a full time carer for my DH.

Charliegirl tell me about joint replacements???I've never heard of that connection..

Charleygirl5

Did she take a swab?

Charliegirl I'm not sure, she had to go to the advanced practice nurse to get the prescription

Did she take a swab?

just back from seeing nurse, he's got antibiotics and dressings..

Just a coincidence nanna8. I’m sure you know that the jabs don’t prevent you getting the illness, just the hope that you don’t get too severely.

More likely it was the way it was administered, as the staff are protecting themselves.

If he has had any joint replacements, he needs the appropriate antibiotics asap.

Last time I had a Covid jab I caught Covid 2 weeks later which makes you wonder. Maybe it was a faulty batch ?