Children of the 70s, did you have whooping cough vaccine. Do you still have your records h

[IamSlave]

Just that really dh had whooping cough as a child.

I don't know if I had the vaccine but I'm assuming dh didn't?

I think older dc just had it (still had cough now doc completely dismissed possibility of it but all other places saying symptoms match.)
Younger dc obviously exposed and had a cough but not as bad

@IamSlave if you log into Patient Access , look under medical records and immunisations are one of the sub categories .

1968 baby here

Yes. Pertussis jab series is in my red Baby Book, along with Smallpox (1971)

Recently had a Tetanus jab (in the last couple of years) and it was combined as DTaP - Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis

I have WC atm. Was vaccinated as child and had the combined tetanus vaccine last year. You can definitely still get it after the vaccine.

My mum would and did have me vaccinated on everything possible and I was born in the early 60's. Whether or not whooping cough vaccine was available then I don't know.
I caught whooping cough shortly after starting school at about the age of 5 I was very ill and I remember the gp coming in every day to check in me. I was sick a lot with the coughing and the doctor suggested fizzy lemonade. I was not allowed fizzy drinks at all , so this was huge ( not really worth the constant vomiting but it was a very small light in a very dark tunnel 😀) . I remember the doctor giving me breathing exercises to do and I remember my dad doing them with me.

Mid 70's baby I didn't have the jab as brain damage speculation but caught whooping cough about age 3

@Ahwig ❤️❤️❤️

I'm an 80s child. Because of family medical history, we were advised against innoculating for whooping cough. Then everyone got it, bar the one protected person. Thankfully we survived. I then got measles years later. My dd has been fully jabbed.

Both my kids vaccinated, both had whooping cough earlier this year, age 15 and 13. It's absolutely hideous, the eldest had it the worst and was very ill indeed. The correct antibiotics sorted it out quite quickly thankfully, once we managed to to convince the Drs what it was.

The Drs can do a swab test, and find out that way. We had to insist.

I was vaccinated as a child but still
Caught it and was down for 6 weeks. I remember it now and it was horrid. I thought I'd never catch my breach.

@Needmorelego I wasn't vaccinated due to the scare and I caught it in I think 1982

I had measles, mumps & German measles as a child (born 1971). I always assumed no vaccines were available then. Never occurred to me to ask mum, but she never once said anything about vaccines whenever I said my dc were having their jabs, so always made me think I’d had no vaccines, especially having had the illnesses. I specifically remember having the mumps and being so delirious I thought horses were galloping up the stairs towards me in the bedroom. I also remember Adam and the ants jumping out of the posters on my bedroom wall and moving the furniture around in the bedroom. So I must have had that at least after the age of 10.
Did not have whooping cough.

@DrCoconut yes it would have been about 82 when I caught it.
I don't actually remember it though.

I was born December 1975 and caught whooping cough a newborn. It's a miracle I'm still here

Mid 70s baby. Caught whooping cough as a newborn and regularly told it's a miracle I'm still here. Wouldn't wish it on anyone

If you have Patient Access, your vaccination record might be there- mine only shows entries from October 2023, which isn't even all vaccinations at my current GP, let alone my life.

However, I do have a very fragile card from.1972, which shows pertussis as well as smallpox, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, polio. I had rubella jab at school age 11, BCG at school age 16. I've had a ton of travel vaccinations, as well as all the covid ones. I have paper records of most of them (may have missed listing one or two tetanus boosters, but Mum was keen on us having them, as we lived on a farm, so I've had the 5 you need these days.)

Had chicken pox one October half term (as did my sister) - I was 6 or 7. I had spots everywhere and i particularly remember peeing was like passing cut glass.

I assume the surgery does have records, it's just not made them available to Patient Access for some reason. It's a pretty good surgery in other ways though, so I can live with it.

I had the vaccine back in early 60s. caught WC in 2006 (I think) - not a pleasant experience. DP brought it home from work (hospital) -lots of his colleagues had it.

I was born in the late 70s. I'm fully jabbed against WC. My daughter was immunised too, as a baby.

This is what mine looks like

I was born in 78 and my mum wouldn't let me have it. Apparently a child on our street had had it and died in his sleep. I had all the other vaccines.

I did catch measles, mumps and German measles despite having had the vaccine. My sisters were 8 and 10 years older I don't know what they had in terms of vaccines.

Does anyone remember the TB jab you had around 12 that left a massive scar. I wonder why they don't do that one anymore?

I was at school in the 00s and my cohort was the first to not all get tb jab. I don't know why, maybe because it was painful and scarring and tb is quite treatable these days. They have not completely got rid of it. Some areas or people from families of countries immigrants get offered it as a teenager.

The BCG. These days it’s offered to babies, but only if they’re at risk for some reason. My kids had it, because we have family in a country where TB is rife.

They do have scars, but they’ve faded really quickly.

I was born in 81, and I didn't have it because I had eczema and asthma and it was believed to be contraindicated at the time.

My mum's the furthest you could get from an anti-vaxxer, this was on the GP's advice.

I had whooping cough in the early 90s, it was shit.

How do you get patient access? I would like to see my records. GPS these days always claim they can’t access anything beyond the past year or so. Useless.