Health anxiety and the COVID jab

[Ladyraven0483]

To keep putting off the vaccine ?

I’ve been called for it and I’m to anxious to get it. I have terrible health anxiety and the side effects I’ve heard of and from people I know would make me panic if I got them too

YABU the side effects of the vaccine are much less than the effects of COVID.
There is a bias about the side effects, people tend to comment if they have had a reaction but many people have no side effects at all.

YANBU
The vaccines are still relatively new and the long term side effects are unknown and newspapers are reporting short term side effects more and more as people are getting it. I'm concerned too and have not had mine

Are you anxious about the side effects of COVID?

I hope you’re seeking help for your health anxiety, because this is potentially not about the side effects of the vaccine at all but you’ve fixated on this and this is where your health anxiety is currently manifesting itself. If it wasn’t the vaccine it would be something else.

It's entirely your choice and no-one should judge you.

For what it's worth, I have health anxiety and I have happily taken the Pfizer vaccine. Obviously no-one can know the very long term effects of either covid or the vaccines, but on the available evidence, I think I'm better off with Pfizer than risking covid.

My side effects were a slightly sore arm and feeling a little under the weather and tired for a couple of days.

YABU the side effects of the vaccine are much less than the effects of COVID

Such a categorical statement is unhelpful, and untrue. There are extreme examples on both sides.

Can you be more specific about your concerns OP, are they related to the AZ vaccine or more general? Do you have any risk factors that make you likely to be very unwell if you did get covid?

You don't have to get it at all, OP.
If you really want it, then by all means get some help for your anxiety about it. Speak to your GP with your concerns and I am sure they will put your mind at rest. If you don't want it, then don't tie yourself up in knots over it. It is a choice.

The most common side effect from the vaccine is protection from a potentially fatal/life altering virus and a reduced chance of spreading it.

Yabu for not putting this in the covid topic with the zillion other I don't want the vaccine threads

I've had both jabs. I had Pfizer. I felt very tired after the first one but fine after the second one so I assume the tiredness was something else going on. I had covid last year and was ill but not dangerously so. My MH took a real dive while I was ill. My anxiety was through the roof. Covid is unpredictable. Some people just feel mildly unwell but some have to go on ventilators. You never know what will happen to you. Not worth the risk. Just my opinion. I didn't really want the jabs but felt it was safer to have them plus it improves the situation for other people too.