to ask why I would be vaccinated for measles, but not rubella?

[fadedout]

Born in April 1986.

I've just had to cancel the first month of fertility treatment because I don't have immunity for Rubella. Check with the doctor and I have never received the vaccine.

Why would this be? For my age I should have received at least measles and rubella. MMR wasn't brought in until 1990 I believe.

Anyone have any knowledge on this?

@fadedout

So if I was absent from school, why was it not followed up on?

It'll vary between areas but in my school district if you were absent for one round of vaccinations you'd then have to wait for them to come next year. There was no special catch up programme (I suppose you could have gone to the GP but I doubt many were that bothered).

So if you missed it one year then changed schools or they changed how the vaccinations were given or they just forgot that you hadn't had it then you'd have slipped through the cracks.

Sorry wasn't too clear. Would have been 80s when vaccine offered at school. I had baby in 2011.

@Mactaylorssecretwife

I've had to have the rubella vaccine redone a few times as I don't seem to retain the immunity so it may not be that you didn't have it as a child. I was born 87 so a similar age and likely similar childhood vaccine program.

My doctors said I definitely have never had it. They can see I had the measles vaccine when I was about 3 months

My brother was born in 1984 and should have had MMR but there must have been controversy at the time as my parents didn't let him have it. There have been several catch up programmes also due to measles outbreaks

Are you having IVF ?? You could convert to freeze your embryos and have them put back at a later date following your vaccinations. Some people do not retain their immunity .

I got it at 12, the top up that is and I was born 1981

measles vaccine wouldn't normally be given at that age.

@hannabanana

Are you having IVF ?? You could convert to freeze your embryos and have them put back at a later date following your vaccinations. Some people do not retain their immunity .

We're going three rounds of IUI before starting IVF

@dementedpixie

measles vaccine wouldn't normally be given at that age.

Then I don't know what the hell happened back then

The Rubella top up that is

OP I can understand your frustration but why are you directing your anger at health care professionals (who deal with thousands who have missed jabs) and not your own parents who presumably should/would have been on top of this?

@Cloudtraffic

OP I can understand your frustration but why are you directing your anger at health care professionals (who deal with thousands who have missed jabs) and not your own parents who presumably should/would have been on top of this?

I am cross with my parents, as I've said upthread.

Apologies- didn’t see that!

I wasn't immune either op despite knowing that I had definitely had the vaccine. Not that uncommon for it not to work the first time. I had the MMR and did then get antibodies.
Obviously very frustrating to have to cancel treatment.

They've never really followed up on someone missing the school vaccines. I was never given any of them as my parents just kept me off school that day. No one ever questioned it or tried to give me the missing vaccinations. It's not mandatory to have them, just recommended. The school are not really responsible for your health care - your parents are.

I had to go to my GP myself to get them all done in my mid twenties.

Vaccines are not mandatory. They are advisory.

I had to have the rubella jab when pregnant as I had no antibodies. I had the MMR when I was about 10 as my mum asked the gp for it. I just found out from my mum that I also had the rubella vaccine as a child. So I've had it three times now!

I wouldn’t get in too much of a twizzle. Single Rubella vaccinations don’t always confer lifetime immunity. They used to do titres on women to check immune status. Single dose was offered mid seventies to mid eighties but some women who had a dose at about 12 years of age weren’t immune by the time they wanted to become pregnant.

Missed doses are not followed up on past babyhood. It’s your responsibility to check vaccinations prior to trying to become pregnant.

Was your mum anti vaccination at that point though?.

I have a son born July 1986. He had DPT then measles at 13 months. MMR was on the cards (it was trialled in my area) but there was a delay in implementing so HV advice to still go ahead with Measles.

He ended up having MMR when he was nearly three a few months after MMR was wheeled out

Up until then only girls would of had an Rubella jabs at school. I missed mine a well, I think many did. This is why I am very against vaccines being doled out at school. I dont think they should be involved with this at all

@loutypips when was that? I wasn't immune when tested pregnant but they didn't do the vaccine until the day after birth. My immunity had gone 1.5 years later (testing again during infertility treatment) and they said I could not try for a baby the month of the vaccine so I decided to just not get vaccinated again as it just doesn't seem to work for me.

Had rubella at 11 or 12, all girls in my year had it, recall that a few opted out, anti-vax types, including a friend‘s mum who was pregnant and worried about risk to her the unborn baby of her DD having the vaccine.

I got an MMR jag when I was in primary school. I have no idea if I had one as a baby?

@seven201 I think I had the mmr early nineties- probably 92/93? I would've been about 10. I had had the rubella vaccine already at that point. And I had it again when I was pregnant 10/11 years ago.

This happened to me. I definitely had the single rubella jab at school as I remember having it. When I was due to start IVF they said I wasn’t immune and so had to have the MMR jab. They said the rubella vaccination can run out so maybe this happened? Best wishes with your treatment