Should adults 40+ have a measles vaccine?

[Northernsoullover]

I was listening to a really interesting podcast today about measles. I was feeling all virtuous for having vaccinated my children (because mine were young when the Wakefield nonsense hit the headlines and I was initially in doubt) when it dawned on me..
I have never had a measles vaccine. I am of the age where girls were taken to one side and given the rubella as a single vaccine.
I have had a Google and it says MMR started around 1988. Therefore I assume there are thousands of unprotected adults floating around.
I'd be interested to know if anyone else has ever worried about this? Can you ask a GP for it?
If anyone is interested in listening to the podcast I'll pop a link up.
I'd also be interested to hear from any HCPs regarding adults and measles. I know I have had rubella (aka German measles) and mumps but I definitely not suffered measles.

I'm 45 and I had the vaccine as a baby

I think most vaccinations are less effective over time.

My son had a TB scare after working abroad and we learned that vaccination is only 50% effective and pretty much useless after 15 years.

I was born mid 70s. Mmr wasn't a thing. I believe single vaccinations were but I was not given the measles and mumps one (dm says this was because of a severe egg allergy- I'm not remotely allergic to eggs now??) As a result I caught both measles and mumps at nursery- don't remember much about the mumps but measles was horrendous, I remember having full on hallucinations. I would absolutely get a vaccination to prevent it.
Got rubella vac at school as a teenager and am still immune (tested whilst ttc and during pregnancy).

Yes I had the single one in the 1960s. Mum ps and rubella are not as bad as measles (measles is more likely to kill you or make you go blind etc) although they can be very nasty eg for pregnant women, so the 60s or earlier must have seen the single measles vaccine come out which I had.

We also had then polio, diptheria etc and also TB one in my teens so most of the basic ones even back in the 60s and 70s.

I just spoke to my mum. She can't remember for definite if I had it but she wouldn't have let an immunisation pass me by. However my brother didn't have it because he was always unwell (in and out of hospital) so they wouldn't.
He actually got measles and she's convinced it triggered Stills disease. I'm sure that given how contagious it is I must have been vaccinated not to have caught it but I'm still going to ask if its worth having as this event was over 40 years ago.

There was a measles vaccine but not a mumps one on the schedule when I was a child. I got the rubella one at school

I’m 39 and had the MMR in my teens as one of the three was doing the rounds and so all the girls at my (girls’) school were vaccinated.

peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/childhood-vaccination-and-the-nhs/

patient.info/doctor/immunisation-schedule-uk

I'm 45 and pretty sure this has been on my antenatal blood screens as having immunity? My mum.also lost some sight from.this as a child so I'm fairly certain I had a jab for it as a kid?

I'm in my mid-40s and definitely didn't get the rubella vaccine till I was 12 - by which time I had already had rubella anyway.

I can't have had a whooping cough vaccine because I caught that when I was nine - awful illness, coughed for weeks.

Ditto mumps - had that joyous illness when I was five.

No idea whether I have been vaccinated against measles.

I recently asked the practice nurse about a flu jab. She said it would be simplest and cheapest to go to ASDA (£7 - I pay) but gave me an MMR (free). I'm in my late 50s.

I'm in my early sixties and had measles as a child. Based on where I know we were living at the time, I would have been five or under at the time I contracted it.

Fortunately there was no lasting damage.

I can still remember the pain of mumps as a 5 year old.

I'm mid 40s and had all routine vaccinations offered like polio and whooping cough. I had rubella vaccine at 12 but no measles vaccine. I did catch measles as a child and it was horrible.

I've never had mumps or the vax . Maybe I should.