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AIBU to not have the 4th covid jab ?

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clovid · 29/09/2022 21:04

I've had all my covid vaccines up to date. I also had covid a few months ago.. I think I can get the next vaccine too if I want it. I was a bit surprised to be invited again..

Covid was just like a cold for me.

I'm 35, have MS ( not on any medication and I don't really have any symptoms apart from fatigue ). So no disability from it, no trouble walking or anything in my body- except fatigue.

I don't really want to have another vaccine. Is that unreasonable ?

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IggyAce · 29/09/2022 21:35

I got my invite last week (type 2 diabetic in remission), I’m not going to bother.

FirstnameSuesecondnamePerb · 29/09/2022 21:35

I'm off for mine tomorrow. I've had 3 plus covid in June

LimboLass · 29/09/2022 21:36

Two and done.

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clovid · 29/09/2022 21:36

FinallyHere · 29/09/2022 21:34

I've had the fourth: I was offered one too when I took DH to be vaccinated.

We were both asked whether we had had covid, can't remember what the timescale was. Sorry, but they may not given them to people who have had covid infection recently.

It used to be 28 days or something. I had it at the beginning of the year so I think I could probably have it, if I want to have it.

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AnyFucker · 29/09/2022 21:36

Had my 4th yesterday and feel a bit rough today just like I did with the 1st three

I don’t want to get covid again, or at least I want to mitigate it if I do

LuckyLil · 29/09/2022 21:37

Had the 4th a couple of hours ago. I'll let you know if I'm still here in the morning. I'm 50 but have always been called in with the over 65s because I am at risk of serious illness if I do catch it.

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clovid · 29/09/2022 21:37

AnyFucker · 29/09/2022 21:36

Had my 4th yesterday and feel a bit rough today just like I did with the 1st three

I don’t want to get covid again, or at least I want to mitigate it if I do

Are the boosters Pfizer or Moderna ? Not that it really matters. Just curious.

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TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 29/09/2022 21:39

bg21 · 29/09/2022 21:33

Nope ! The sooner we stop being sheep and just get on with life the better

What a stupid comment. Get it/don't, I don't much care tbh. But just because people choose differently than you doesn't make them sheep FFS.

some of us, having the booster IS getting on with life.

@clovid I have a few underlyings, I'm getting the booster on the 8th. I wasn't unwell with the others, so hopefully not with this one either, I'd rather take the minute risk of that & lessen my chances of getting Covid. Rach to their own, but the more thst fo, the kess foiting Covid will get this winter.

x2boys · 29/09/2022 21:40

Summerishere123 · 29/09/2022 21:33

I didn't get the 3rd. The vaccine doesn't stop you getting it and I have had it twice and just been a bit out of sorts.
I'd d one a year but not 4.

I'm not sure I will have my fourth jab either, but they have never said the vaccine won't stop you having it just that having the vaccine prevents most people getting very ill with covid and needing hospital admissions,
I had covid in the summer for the first time ,I wss ill for about four days and then was fine I did feel grim but certainly not ill enough to get hospital treatment, I have had three vaccines ,maybe I wouldn't have got that unwell with covid anyway but who knows?

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 29/09/2022 21:40

Might see if they offer rehabilitation for naughty iPhones!!

Groovee · 29/09/2022 21:41

I have fibromyalgia and just getting over covid for the first time. I’ll be having my 4th jag in November as my appointment came through today. I’ve been so floored with covid that I think my last immunity had worn off. I just don’t want to be at the point where I was too poorly to get out of bed again. It’s triggered a lot of my fibro symptoms that hadn’t been about for months.

but it’s each to your own. It’s a choice that only you can make.

KvotheTheBloodless · 29/09/2022 21:42

Why don't you want to have another dose?

PeloFondo · 29/09/2022 21:43

I had the new moderna one and just felt sick overnight with a sore arm. Had 2 AZ and 2 Pfizer before that so moderna was my 5th

Buckland123 · 29/09/2022 21:43

YANBU. I wouldn’t have another one, and am annoyed I felt press-ganged into getting the first 3. I’m still not convinced I needed them at all. Tbh I only did them to go on holiday and then no-one in Italy or France even checked anyway, so I needn’t have bothered.

Parky04 · 29/09/2022 21:43

I'm 51 and won't be having a 2nd booster. Neither will my OH who is 54.

KangarooKenny · 29/09/2022 21:44

It’s 28 days between covid infection and jab for an adult, 12 weeks for a child.

AnyFucker · 29/09/2022 21:45

@clovid Do you know what, I have no idea what I had

I am surprised at myself for not asking now. Although I rushed in, rushed out with literally 5 mins to spare, tbh

EfficientDynamics · 29/09/2022 21:45

I've had three covid jabs

I had absolutely no reaction to any of them

I count myself lucky as some work colleagues were really ill

I'm not planning on having a forth

AnnaMagnani · 29/09/2022 21:46

I had mine booked for this weekend and then I bloody got Covid.

It's hideous, even though I am supposedly better I feel exhausted and keep fainting everywhere.

Really really wish it could have waited until after the jab, I feel so miserable.

Badger1970 · 29/09/2022 21:46

I'm diabetic and had my 1st 3. Was incredibly unwell with all of them to the point of needing medical attention, and I react badly to the flu jab as well.

I have also had Covid, and frankly would rather have that again than the side effects from the booster.

cardibach · 29/09/2022 21:48

user6497219 · 29/09/2022 21:30

I'm not getting it, last one gave me Shingles

Ummm…no it didn’t. There’s no possible mechanism for that. You had shingles after it. No causality.

Thatboymum · 29/09/2022 21:49

I wouldn’t purely based on the fact that I have now been diagnosed with a rare neurological condition that 3 seperate consultants have put down to the covid jags. And low and behold when you Research it it’s becoming quite a common connection in people having had the jag. I was all for it until then but if it was the jag it’s ruined my quality of life significantly so I vote no

cardibach · 29/09/2022 21:49

Summerishere123 · 29/09/2022 21:33

I didn't get the 3rd. The vaccine doesn't stop you getting it and I have had it twice and just been a bit out of sorts.
I'd d one a year but not 4.

It’s not 4 a year though is it? It’s an initial course of 3 with a booster a year later. And maybe yearly thereafter. Like flu.

TooMuchToDoTooLittleInclination · 29/09/2022 21:51

clovid · 29/09/2022 21:37

Are the boosters Pfizer or Moderna ? Not that it really matters. Just curious.

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I've heard Moderna, but not 100% sure.

Menora · 29/09/2022 21:51

I’ve had 5 and the last one I was really unwell and reactive to, more than the previous 4 which I did have a reaction to but not like this one. I question whether I would bother again because it was so unpleasant