Covid booster

Due to a number of co-morbid ailments, i was shielding for two years. Never again, I will take all the vaccines going in order to be able to lead the life, I want.
I still travel and have travel vaccinations, including yellow Fever so why wouldn’t I have the Covid jab.
I had both the latest flu and Covid jabs in the same arm on the same day. I had a sore arm for about two days and fine ever since.

Mines booked for Sunday lunchtime. My flu jab is next Saturday. I am thankful for any vaccination I can have. Last year I had Shingles and Pneumonia along with all the Covid ones and the flu.

I will definitely have my booster as soon as I can and cannot understand why anyone would not do so! I am currently recovering from a nasty dose of Covid, caught on a cruise ship holiday, dread to think what would have happened to be had I not been vaccinated, I doubt I would have survived, I have never felt so ill before!!! Still testing positive, so isolating until I am clear. So grateful for the NHS vaccination scheme

As a scientist and with very good health and immune system, including microbiome, I thought long and hard about the covid vacs I decided to have all of them and am now booked in for this next one.

My neighbour had covid for the second time and then a few months later had a severe stroke. His aged partner now has long covid

No contest really and even my dd, who is in front line health, is booked to get hers. She also has been down the vaccine route and has been kept safe in spite of seeing very many patients

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.

i had my covid booster on wednesday - thankfully no side effects apart from a sore "spot" on my arm.
and i'm due to have my flu jab next wednesday.
i'm asthmatic and shielded through lockdown as i had had an op to remove a kidney through cancer. i was considered at risk if i caught covid
so when the next covid booster is available i'll be there!

Absolutely not. Experimental technology, all of it. I recall during the first summer of Covid several experts on the BBC saying there was no way a vaccine could possibly be delivered inside several years because of the need for thorough testing. A few months later all objections are silenced, censored, called 'disinformation' and so many people are getting injected over and over again with - who knows what? Covid has been 'Christmas every day' for the drug companies - that's a quote from a drug company executive. The vax does not stop you getting Covid, and who's to say it makes the infection milder? How would you know? And another point - those who don't get vaccinated have been called 'selfish' but the reverse is the case, if the vax has any effect - arguably it could mean the vaccinated get the infection more mildly, not know they've got it, and become a super-spreaders (wouldn't that be 'selfish'?). And why oh why does no-one talk about supporting your own immune system with a good diet, good supplements, looking after your microbiome etc? That's because no-one makes much money out of it. I wish I had not had the first two vaxes - I wish more people would wake up, realise we are being ruled by the fear generated by the media and take control of our own lives.

Definitely will have both next week.

I had my flu jab last week and was fine.
Had my 8th covid yesterday morning and was very hot and ached from head to toe overnight.
I had the same reaction to the very 1st covid jab. I am hoping it's a sign I will build up a good immunity.

So today it's a day of doing very little.

If I could have it, I would, but they’ve changed the age for eligibility this year (unless you match other criteria which I don’t).

I'm booked to have both on the same day in a couple of weeks. I wasn't at all sure as I was ill after the last one, but I'm flying a couple of weeks later so thought I should.

Fingers crossed!

half have!

Maggiemaybe

Primrose53

The covid jabs didn’t stop millions of people from still getting covid. Please don’t use the excuse “but I might have got it worse if I hadn’t had the jab”. You don’t know that. 😉

We all had 3 jabs apart from one son. We all got covid summer 2022 and passed it on to him and he was no worse than the rest of us. All it was, was a dry throat and feeling more tired than usual.

Why would anyone need an excuse for having had the vaccine?

Of course I can never know how ill I would have been with Covid if I hadn’t had it when it was offered.

But the steady and significant decline in the number of Covid deaths and hospitalisations once the vaccination programme got well underway is proof enough for me that it’s effective.

At the beginning of the pandemic, when I was advised to sheild, one of my consultants very bluntly told me that I would die if I caught Covid and that a DNR notice had been put on my record. There would be no ICU for me.
This was before I had been vaccinated.

After having had four vaccinations, I caught Covid from my asymptomatic granddaughter.
Within twenty four hours I was in hospital receiving an anti viral infusion and told that vaccination had lessened the effects and had probably saved my life.
That was from my clinicicians, it is not heresay.

I am about to half my eighth in a few weeks and will continue to do so if needed.

Primrose53

The covid jabs didn’t stop millions of people from still getting covid. Please don’t use the excuse “but I might have got it worse if I hadn’t had the jab”. You don’t know that. 😉

We all had 3 jabs apart from one son. We all got covid summer 2022 and passed it on to him and he was no worse than the rest of us. All it was, was a dry throat and feeling more tired than usual.

Why would anyone need an excuse for having had the vaccine?

Of course I can never know how ill I would have been with Covid if I hadn’t had it when it was offered.

But the steady and significant decline in the number of Covid deaths and hospitalisations once the vaccination programme got well underway is proof enough for me that it’s effective.

Yes I’m getting it.

PS. I don't need to make an excuse to have a Covid jab. People need excuses when they do something wrong. Having a further Covid jab is absolutely not wrong for me.

Primrose53

The covid jabs didn’t stop millions of people from still getting covid. Please don’t use the excuse “but I might have got it worse if I hadn’t had the jab”. You don’t know that. 😉

We all had 3 jabs apart from one son. We all got covid summer 2022 and passed it on to him and he was no worse than the rest of us. All it was, was a dry throat and feeling more tired than usual.

We don't know as individuals whether the symptoms of Covid would have been worse, but we do know from analysis of millions of vaccinations that the risk of serious symptoms was mitigated.

As the person affected is an individual, it's up to him/her whether to take the risk. I can't say it bothers me one way or the other what decision people make, but I do find it strange that people get so het up about trying to influence others, especially when they use inaccurate information and scare tactics..

We are not sure whether to have another Covid vaccination this year. Over the last few years have had 6 in all and also had Covid. Will be having the flu injection though.

The covid jabs didn’t stop millions of people from still getting covid. Please don’t use the excuse “but I might have got it worse if I hadn’t had the jab”. You don’t know that. 😉

We all had 3 jabs apart from one son. We all got covid summer 2022 and passed it on to him and he was no worse than the rest of us. All it was, was a dry throat and feeling more tired than usual.

Cadenza123

Yes, I'm very reluctant. We were initially told that no corners had been cut in the development of the vaccine. That doesn't seem to be the case. I'm undecided. A question of risk v. Benefit.

Which corners were cut?

GrannyGravy13

Nanatoone

I have never been offered a pneumonia jab and I’m 67. I’ve booked the Covid jab for tomorrow as I’m going to juicy oasis in Portugal (for health reasons, I love it there) in a few weeks and don’t want to get Covid and not be able to go. Job nearly done. Will
look into the pneumonia jab as I dot. Want that again. The longer term damage to my lungs is noticeable.

In my area you have to be 70 to get the pneumonia vaccine on NHS, my sister had hers at 45 different area. I asked my GP if I qualified (both sister and I have severe asthma, history of bronchitis and chest infections) and was told no.

I went to Boots and paid £80 for the pneumonia vaccine privately in January 2020 as the rumours about Covid were beginning.

That's odd. The NHS guidelines state 65. Asthma sufferers who use a steroid inhaler or take steroid meds under 65 are eligible for a pneumonia jab.

I had my flu jab last week and felt a bit poorly for 2days.

Had Covid booster yesterday and feel tired and cold today.

I had Covid in February and ended up in hospital with a gastro intestinal bleed,don’t want that again! and I have had all the Covid boosters I can get!

Had mine last Friday one in each arm - funnily enough neither arm hurt.
I do usually feel a bit fluey the next day so always arrange a low key day the day after.

I've agonised over this but finally decided against having the covid booster. I have had all the jabs offered up until now but hours after the last one I developed the worst backache I have ever had in my life. It came on overnight - completely alright when I went to bed, in agony when I woke up - and I was incapacitated for a few weeks.

I consulted a physio who said she could not say for sure that it was to do with the jab but several of her patients had complained of similar afflictions so she was suspicious.

I would not wish to put anyone off having their booster with this story. I think we each have to make the decision for ourselves.

Yes, I'm very reluctant. We were initially told that no corners had been cut in the development of the vaccine. That doesn't seem to be the case. I'm undecided. A question of risk v. Benefit.