To ask if YOU having MMR?

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Ok. I have vaccinated my dc according to schedule. I got an email at work today from occupational health people (not healthcare or similar) saying that if you a) born after 1972 b) didn't have 2 doses MMR and c) didn't have confirmed case measles then should have MMR now! I asked my Dad (retired gp) and he said I had one measles jab as child, didn't have mmr (although my younger brother did) - he said v v likely I was immune. However he thought slight risk of not being immune.

I am sure a lot of you fall into the category above (most people born between 1972 and 1980) - so who is having.

I don't work with children or in healthcare - I work in an office.

The MMR is a live, weakened version of the gits, because immunity from the dead vaccine wears off.

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/mmr-side-effects.aspx

So many people do get mild symptoms of the actual diseases. I, for example, am the original weakling. I am convinced I would have died very young, had I been born a century ago. My immune system over-reacts to everything (hayfever from Feb onwards), and I come down badly with everything. Throughout my life, colds have been of flu-like severity for me, and as for the flu... I had it during Christmas as a child, and I couldn't sit up in bed to open my Christmas presents! Didn't eat for nearly a week becasue my throat hurt so much.

(Which disproves the idea that unvaccinated children are automatically healthy!)

When I had the MMR as an adult, I hence got a proper taster of measles! The real thing would undoubtedly kill me.

Born in 62 and had mumps and chickenpox when i was 2, and was supposed to have the measles jab around 1970,as i remember queuing up for it in primary, but was not allowed to have it as my sister had febrile convulsions. I caught measles a few months later. I also had rubella a few weeks before i was supposed to have the jab at school. I caught it from my mum.

Not read the whole thread.

I was born in 1976 and my medical records show that I had a single measles jab in 1977. I had mumps as a child and was tested for rubella immunity during both pregnancies.

I suffer from autoimmune hypothyroidism so I'm not keen to have the MMR if it's not necessary so I have had a blood test this week to test for measles immunity.

If I'm not immune I'm considering having the single jab.

I was born 1982 and didn't have the MMR. I had mumps and rubella but not measles.

I would have it. I have an 18 month old who has had his first jab but not the second. I do worry, especially as my four year olds both got mumps even though they have both had both jabs!

I was born 1976. Doctors wouldn't vaccinate me as my uncle was asthmatic and allergic to various things. So I only ever had rubella in my early teens.
Had cp as a junior aged child.

Thanks MyDarlingClementine. I might ask about getting DS3 vaccinated early as there's no way I'd risk him getting measles.

I was born in the 70s and didn't have MMR vaccines, or BCG vaccine. I did have Rubella when I was about 10; my sister had measles and mumps very badly, and the GP said it would be impossible for me to be in the same house as her and not become immune, even if I showed no symptoms. I wonder if he was right?!

Nathan it's possible you're immune. It's also possible you just didn't get either from your sister!

My MIL has told me about how she got almost all the diseases when her siblings had them, but a couple she actually caught as an adult, despite household exposure 15 years earlier! When she finally did get them, it was when she was working in an office with pregnant women, to boot.

PS: I love Terry Goodkind's books.

Hungryclocks you should ask for one from your GP asap, especially if you ever want another child.

Hmm, this thread has got me wondering.

I was born in 70s. My mum can't remember what I had but thinks I had everything I was meant to. I remember getting the rubella jab at school. The NHS website is advising adults born in 70s to check with GP about MMR.
I called GP and spoke to two receptionists who were both totally unaware of the NHS advice and seemed to think it was a bit odd that I was calling.
So should I be getting the MMR then?

I am still waiting for my GP to call me back....

VillaVillekulla

Am looking on website cant see that adice where is it

I was born in 1974. According to my mum I had German measles, chicken pox, whooping cough and mumps but she can't remember me being vaccinated against measles or having the illness. I am not sure what to do tbh.

Was rubella the one which you had a test for immunity for in secondary? I actually contracted mumps, so should be fine for that. No idea about measles. I was born in 1970.

I was born in 1965 and got measles when I was 3, I was very ill with it. Never had mumps but got the rubella jag when I was about 13 and have had 3 boosters since then as every time they test me for immunity they say it's low. My poor brother had mumps when he was 14 and it made him sterile.

I had my MMR today. Took my 8 week old for her first jabs & was talking to GP about not having had it so she did it today. I'm a HCP & when I changed jobs last August & had occy health checks they found out I was measles non-immune but couldn't have it then as was preggers.

Kitchen - they should be able to vaccinate you against measles with your medical history (but they will probably do an immunity test first)

TailTwister - the 6 needles was the BCG test, which is for TB.
you most likely would have also had Rubella jab in secondary school.

I had my second dose almost two years ago after my surgery did a big drive to get all their patients vaccinated. Ds had his at the recommended time, I'm still constantly reminding dh to go het his!

"I am worried about 6 month old, but we are not in out break area, I would not be soo worried if we were not going away!"

someone I spoke to said that the first batch of measles cases in South West Wales had recently been on a school trip to England and that's why they got it. i don't think it really matters if you are in the break-out area or not.

I had measles (was hospitalised with secondary infection of pneumonia), mumps, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough as a child so no.

Was vaxed in 1980 against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and oral polio (had tetanus and polio booster in 2000 too).

I was immune to rubella when they checked during my last pregnancy (2011).

kitchen get a blood test to see if you are immune as unique said.

I had a blood test last year when 7 month pg, but wasn't immune. there was a small chance that I might have contracted it measles because of a confirmed case at my kids' school - it was so awful waiting to see if I fall ill or not and worrying if I might loose baby due to late MC, a very likely outcome...and there was nothing I could do to prevent it.

Thank God I didn't catch it and I'm getting a measles vaccination on Monday as I'm planning to be pg again, and there's no way I'd risk loosing baby!

so if you are planning to have a baby, you should definitely get vaxed - I suggest you get some info on the possible/likely risks to you and baby if you catch the illness while pg!

forgot to add that I had both mumps and rubella when little and tested positive for both antibodies, so I don't need the triple shot.

Had my MMR today, I only had one measles jab, doc said I could have another one.
DH has no vaccination records and has had one MMR today also, another one soon.