Covid and Flu jabs and feeling awful!

Nurse, work with children and babies, who do get flu and can be very unwell/die from it. All our team get their flu vaccine. It’s given on our unit. No idea re Covid but I had mine months ago. Was fine. Have a severely asthmatic child at home so also like to protect him. Those who get it, I trust have done their own research about having vaccines.

those who don’t that’s fine, but I don’t tell people to have theirs, anymore than I appreciate people telling me not to have mine, it’s my choice for my body as a health professional I’ve made sure I am informed. Someone going on about ohhh you know what’s in them on mumsnet is hardly going to change my mind. You’d be as well saving your energy

No idea...didn't read the detail. It just flashed up with stats re flu and covid jabs and HCPs....

What do they know? My friend is a health care provider who didn't take her jab and was flattened by flu for 2 or 3 weeks over Christmas. She will be taking her jab next year!

Some stats out this morning as to how most health care providers are not taking these jabs...they know!

Exactly, really hard to credit some of these comments. Wonder if the same people will be taking the Bubonic Plague vaccine that is being talked about currently.

Yes me too, seems a really grey area.
Hope you’re fully recovered now too. It’s scary stuff at the time!

It is really tough to know. I wish there was more transparency and research. It could answer questions like this and lead to better treatment.

At least you would be aware of the symptoms and seek swift treatment.

Good luck and best wishes.

I developed pericarditis a few weeks after catching COVID. They linked it directly to the virus although obviously can’t be 100% sure.
I’ve was offered the vaccine this year and had it a few days ago. Hoping that it doesn’t trigger myocarditis/pericarditis. It seemed like a good idea to have it but I’m now wondering if I’m more susceptible to this as a side effect, having had it before.

@Marmunia10667 because some of us need vaccines for protection because our immune systems are fucked

Covid for me was 3 weeks off work, anti virals, a home covid ward ringing me three times a day, my consultant on the phone, and going from doing 90 min spin classes to barely able to do 10 mins
How I wish it was just a stuffy nose

I got myocarditis days after a Covid vaccine. I am pro vaccine so got it and was diagnosed in hospital. Initial symptoms were a feeling like heartburn that did not go with Gaviscon. Then it got worse, but my case was severe enough to be in hospital. I am not young or a male. I hate to know that women were dismissed by their GPs as having heartburn and anxiety, when tests should have been made to rule out myocarditis.

No effects at all
Both in same arm. Slightly sore arm for a couple of days is all

Scientists tend to be a bit more in the line of weighing risks and benefits, you seem a bit strident.

The flu jab has been proved extremely safe over many years (started in the 1960s). The Covid jab is more nuanced but for people at risk of serious problems with Covid, the elderly, those with existing breathing difficulties, immune supressed, etc it can be life saving. If you and your loved ones are not at serious risk from Covid I can understand you and them not taking it. But be careful if you are ordering people at risk not to take it.

Two years ago I didn't have my jabs and I caught either the flu or COVID. I have never felt so ill in my life. I couldn't do anything as I was out of it. I had a temperature and as I read in a book in the land between sleep and awake for about 2 weeks. I ended up in hospital with a double chest infection. That virus killed my MiL.

I'd rather have a sore arm and feel ill for a couple of days rather than go through that again.

TrayBake81 I was told by my GP to have them separetly .She said her DD and DM had both had bad side effects!

I had both. My COVID arm felt like my bra strap had slipped down and I was very drowsy the next day .

Other than that I was fine.

Slightly sore arm that was all.

Why? Just why? I had Covid last week and only had a stuffy nose. Felt absolutely fine! No vaccines since one made me very ill in 2010.

I lost 24 hours this week after covid and flu jab. Shivering under a duvet and all my muscles hurt. Nearly fell down stairs with dizziness

I know this thread is a couple of weeks old but I wanted to ask if anyone's ever had a delayed reaction to the flu jab? I had what felt very much like a reaction (bad headache, body ache, chills, tired) but it was 3 days after my jab, and it lasted about 12 hours. Does that seem possible?

I opted to have them separately.
Had the covid one and will have flu jab after my holiday

I had both on Sunday 6th. One arm was sore but zero other problems, I felt normal.

@Spondoolie
I've never met anyone who's both a microbiologist and a control freak

Hopefully anyone you love can make their own decision.

I’m also a microbiologist and there is no way I, or anyone I love, is having either vaccine ever again

I'm feeling ok again this morning. I felt so off yesterday afternoon that I thought I might faint so the school run was fun. I usually walk but had to get the bus. So 36 hours of feeling rubbish.