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Anyone had a COVID jab lately??

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Mustardmummy25 · 26/09/2025 20:29

Not had one since 2021 but earlier this yr was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease so might explain why every time I have had COVID it it has knocked me for 6 with post viral fatigue for weeks. So considering the jab.

I just want to weigh up any side effects tho, the only issue I had with the vaccine previously was that I had a lot of disturbances to my menstrual cycle. Had a horrendous time with perio lasting weeks and being so heavy and really long cycles in between.

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Wonderknicks · 27/09/2025 15:10

That's interesting. Could you let me have the references for both of those? Thank you.

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/09/2025 15:24

I have had it twice yearly since the first one - early 2021 was it???

I have health reasons for it. Sounds like you have too @Mustardmummy25

You can book it online. Smile

springissprung2025 · 27/09/2025 15:36

I’m not offered it this time sadly. I had Covid before the vaccines and three times after. I can honestly say I’ve never felt so unwell as I did before the vaccines. Afterwards it was just an inconvenient illness. Vaccines all the way for me ( if I can maybe pay to get one this season)

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RainBow725 · 27/09/2025 19:51

I had a paid for one today. Covid makes me ill for months on end so I will do anything I can to protect myself. Interestingly I had pins and needles in my head about 20 mins after I had the jab - which is a Covid symptom for me. It’s subsided now and no other side effects as yet.

LivingTheDreamish · 27/09/2025 22:28

It's a tough decision OP. I don't have any underlying health conditions to factor in but the COVID jab always makes me really ill for a few days. But so far I've had the booster each time I was eligible.

I always get a flu jab too. I know it's hit or miss if it works but for me it has zero side effects so why not. I had flu (as in actual influenza) a number of years ago and was horribly ill, so wish to avoid a repeat if at all possible.

DramaLlamacchiato · 27/09/2025 22:30

Tarkan · 27/09/2025 11:16

I’ve had mine every year but they don’t seem to be doing them here this year, it’s just a free flu jag I’ve been offered and that’s all my parents had at their appointment this week too.

Same. I got an appointment through but looks like it’ll be just for flu. I might get the Covid one privately.

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 27/09/2025 22:47

Tarkan · 27/09/2025 11:16

I’ve had mine every year but they don’t seem to be doing them here this year, it’s just a free flu jag I’ve been offered and that’s all my parents had at their appointment this week too.

Generally in Scotland it's over 75s only this year.

Craftysue · 27/09/2025 22:48

I'm booked in for both this week - I've got an autoimmune condition and the medication affects my immune system as well.
I've never had any side effects apart from a sore arm

Overtheatlantic · 27/09/2025 22:51

I paid for one last week and only had a sore arm for a couple of days. The pharmacist said it’s the brand new one. He was quite excited about it lol.

FancyCatSlave · 27/09/2025 22:55

I’m having a private Covid jab in October. I have had Covid a few times and each time been knocked for 6, as a newly single parent I can’t face another bad winter so having free flu jab from work and paying for Covid jab myself.

I haven’t had one since the last lot of universal Covid boosters. It might not help but if I end up on 6 weeks of bed rest again like last Christmas at least I know I tried.

I have never been ill after any vaccine, just the sore arm.

pinkteddy · 27/09/2025 23:55

Wonderknicks · 27/09/2025 15:10

That's interesting. Could you let me have the references for both of those? Thank you.

We’ll wait …

VoulezVouz · 28/09/2025 05:49

Elizabethandfour · 27/09/2025 11:50

Deaths are up since the Covid jab. Sudden deaths are up 30%. You have all seen people having heart attacks, strokes all over the country and doctors are baffled. The flu vaccine is claimed to work about 40% of the time. How can they test it if people only get flu about once in 10 years. One study showed that people who get the flu vaccine are more likely to get flu.

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Is there even a category for ‘sudden deaths’? I feel ‘died suddenly’ has really only existed from 2021 onwards.

Shouty1971 · 28/09/2025 06:00

Ditto

Itsthedifference · 28/09/2025 06:04

Since having the covid vaccine (and covid itself) a lot of people have been diagnosed with autoimmune diseases.
It’s possible that covid itself/the vaccine was the trigger for these autoimmune diseases.

rrrrrreatt · 28/09/2025 07:16

Elizabethandfour · 27/09/2025 11:50

Deaths are up since the Covid jab. Sudden deaths are up 30%. You have all seen people having heart attacks, strokes all over the country and doctors are baffled. The flu vaccine is claimed to work about 40% of the time. How can they test it if people only get flu about once in 10 years. One study showed that people who get the flu vaccine are more likely to get flu.

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How are you defining sudden deaths? Sudden adult death syndrome figures wouldn’t include heart attacks/strokes but excess deaths aren’t 30% higher.

The flu jab is normally 40-60% effective - WHO predicts which strain people need protecting against for the next flu season but flu viruses change rapidly. It can’t be any % effective and make people more likely to catch flu though, that would make it ineffective.

Vaccine effectiveness is calculated at the end of each flu season by comparing the data collected (eg GP testing, hospitalisations, deaths, etc) for those vaccinated and unvaccinated.

They test new flu vaccines with challenge trials; that’s a special clinical trial where they quarantine participants and deliberately infect them then give them the vaccine to see if it works.

Foxhasbigsocks · 28/09/2025 08:33

We only had mild reactions after the latest Covid vaccine and all well now.

Growlybear83 · 28/09/2025 08:57

I’ve got my flu jab booked for next week, and my Covid jab booked the following week, but I’m not sure I’m eligible this year. I’ve been seen by the Long Covid Clinic for the last 18 months and my occupational therapist has said I really need to have the vaccination but eligibility for the NHS jab seems to have reduced again this year, so I may end up having to pay for it.

RidingMyBike · 28/09/2025 09:03

DH had his a couple of weeks ago. Felt tired for a couple of days but that was it.

I haven’t been eligible for a Covid jab for a couple of years but had Covid last year and it was so awful I’m paying for a Covid jab next week. And that wasn’t the serious Covid that lands you in hospital!

They’ve really tightened up the criteria for who is eligible for a jab this year and it isn’t cheap to pay for it privately. But the consequences of catching Covid and being unable to work for weeks are too much.

Parker231 · 28/09/2025 09:13

Elizabethandfour · 27/09/2025 11:50

Deaths are up since the Covid jab. Sudden deaths are up 30%. You have all seen people having heart attacks, strokes all over the country and doctors are baffled. The flu vaccine is claimed to work about 40% of the time. How can they test it if people only get flu about once in 10 years. One study showed that people who get the flu vaccine are more likely to get flu.

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Deaths have increased but they are not related to the vaccine . Doctors aren’t baffled.

They relate to healthcare backlogs, mental and other health problems. The increase in heart attacks can be attributed to increased obesity and poor health care - ie lack of exercise

notnorman · 28/09/2025 09:52

Elizabethandfour · 27/09/2025 11:50

Deaths are up since the Covid jab. Sudden deaths are up 30%. You have all seen people having heart attacks, strokes all over the country and doctors are baffled. The flu vaccine is claimed to work about 40% of the time. How can they test it if people only get flu about once in 10 years. One study showed that people who get the flu vaccine are more likely to get flu.

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Deaths went down all over the world - even countries that didn’t have the jab because the virus had become less problematic for humans.

edited to say I’ve quoted the wrong person!

LoafofSellotape · 28/09/2025 09:59

Those who have had it privately, where did you get it done and how much was it please?

Growlybear83 · 28/09/2025 10:02

My friend’s daughter had her Covid jab privately at Boots last year. They charged £99 but I was reading the other day that some pharmacies will be offering it for around £45 this year.

RidingMyBike · 28/09/2025 15:15

LoafofSellotape · 28/09/2025 09:59

Those who have had it privately, where did you get it done and how much was it please?

Local pharmacy (independent) and it cost £95

LoafofSellotape · 29/09/2025 00:20

Thank you 👍

Beekman · 29/09/2025 01:08

I had both Covid and Flu jabs on the same day last week, they’re both still available to anyone who wants on where I live. Felt the usual tiredness and achiness 12-24 hrs afterwards and then absolutely fine. Having had Covid before and after the vaccine, I wouldn’t want it without again.