Really regretting getting the Covid jab (warning pity party)

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I had my COVID vaccination on Saturday. I have had all the available boosters since lockdown as I have had some health issues that put me in a "slightly vulnerable to COVID" category.

Went to local chemist had the jab and a charity shop mooch, then came home all fine. 10-12 hours later I start feeling ropey. I know I might be in for a rough night as I have been known to react badly. So I had violent chills, followed by feverishness, crazy fever dreams, headache untouched by paracetamol, couldn't get out of bed for a wee without help, joint pain, nausea, loss of appetite ... This went on for 24 hours. I was still a wreck on Monday, so day off work, Tuesday tired but felt better and felt normal by the evening. I expected to be back at work today.

Then in the middle of the night, chills again I was shivering violently, headache returned plus sore throat and a cough. Most likely an opportunistic virus 🦠 but I am wondering why I put myself through all this🙄

Not sure if the net benefit outweighs the massively inconvenient time off work and feeling like shit-ness of it all.

I will think hard before taking the next booster if offered. I have the flu jab every year - never any issues with that one.

@Divinespark

Anyone want to talk about Ranitidine? (Zantac) Available from the early 80s and absolutely fine to take until 2019 when it was withdrawn due to cancer risk. I was on it from the late 90s to December 2019 when i ran out and had to switch to Nexium. So its not as if there hasnt been times when they have sworn blind something is safe to take and then changed their minds!!

I had two of the vaccines. Just wanted restrictions to end but it should always be personal choice.

It WHAT?

If you saw my upthread anecdote about omeprazole (nexium is esomaprazole but that’s an isomer of the same drug), I used to take ranitidine for when I hadn’t been quick enough getting my prescriptions. Jesus wept.

Nobe of this means we should renounce chemical medical treatments though. It means that drug companies (who generally spend more on promotion) should be dragged through the wringer.

@CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau Im sorry i thought most people knew.

All anecdotal. DH is a GP - worked in the UK during the pandemic and now in Canada. He also worked on Covid wards. He hasn’t had any patients reporting vaccine side effects other than the sore arm:headache type.

Worldwide, 70% of the world population has had at least 1 dose of a Covid vaccine. Around 13.38 billion doses have been given worldwide.

Whatever. Think what you want. I won't respond to you anymore. You're not worth my time. This is an important thread for those with side effects, injuries or worse to tell their stories.

@JenniferBooth no I’m grateful! And I haven’t spent much time out in the world lately. I just also didn’t need another potential health issue to worry about :( but it’s good to know.

So it’s not as if there hasnt been times when they have sworn blind something is safe to take and then changed their minds!!

my go to example is children and aspirin. Took decades to be noticed, identified and proven.

I do think though that we’re educated enough these days that we should be aware that all medication, even those declared ‘safe’, may be shown to have harms associated at some point in the future with advances in science and observances from the medical and scientific community. It’s a pro’s vs con’s analysis every time.

The only real way to avoid that is to refuse all and any medical intervention. No doctor or pharmaceutical scientist is going to offer anyone cast iron guarantees their biology will be 100% safe against any harm from any medication.

Well put @Cornettoninja. I have clinically died from dialysis. My heart stopped and my circulation collapsed. Twice in one day. Restarted with adrenaline and a limited number of chest compressions in the interim. If I hadn’t had the dialysis, I would have had a certainty of a lingering, horrific death of acute kidney failure. You have to weigh up the risks and the advantages and even though the medical profession’s knowledge is imperfect, it’s better than mine.

Whatever. Think what you want. I won't respond to you anymore. You're not worth my time. This is an important thread for those with side effects, injuries or worse to tell their stories.

Oh give it rest will you.

So its not as if there hasnt been times when they have sworn blind something is safe to take and then changed their minds!!

Medical science changes and improves all the time. Lucky for us that it does.

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Prices as of December 2019

Tesco Ranitidine £1.50 for a fortnights supply
Nexium £10 for a fortnights supply

I just thank god I haven’t had any jabs.
My cousin had his and died promptly of a heart attack. Then my dentist had thrombosis so he’s refusing to have anymore.
I never know why so many on this board are always trying to promote it and insisting that everybody takes it.

Obviously there are going to be side effects for any medication. What was shocking in this case was how long the the scale of MRNA side effects were denied, including the myocarditis risk to women. The safe and effective narrative shut down much discussion and what was left was polarised with anti vaxxers on one side, complete denial of any problems on the other. Victims were left without a voice and a discussion of the cardiac risk to women was sorely lacking. I say this as someone pro-vax enough to get an MRNA vaccine, but landed in hospital and left with life long damage that shows on MRI.

Lessons have to be learn and victims treated effectively/supported. History tells us this is not always the case, e.g thalidomide.

And!? Lots of people have experienced adverse events - as has been evidenced on this thread (on the Yellow Card Scheme and in the many govt payouts we've seen so far). You should probably just let those people speak.

Exactly this! 👏👏

I'm so sorry you have been injured by meds.

My life was "ruined" by an antipsychotic drug prescribed off label for severe anxiety and insomnia and I have had a neurological involuntary movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia now for 9 years.

It becomes tiring being chronically ill and I truly sympathise with you and how hard it is. Sending you much love ❤️

I'm choosing not to have the booster, I had the first 2 AZ then a Moderna booster 6 months later but none of the extra ones after that, I am eligible because I am 65

@Universalsnail @ArseInTheCoOpWindow me too guys - I have massively improved but it has taken 14 months- the first 6 months were incredibly frightening and debilitating - -I cannot honestly say if it was vaccine or covid in my case as I had them very close together- 4th vaccine, 2nd dose of covid.

Now the only things I've bern left with are weird feeling sore eyes (intermittent) - occasional pins and needles in lower leg and a stiff sore neck (intermittent) and a forehead/top of nose that feels like permanent sunburn- it's liveable but certainly somewhere along the line I have permanent nerve damage by the looks of it

Why are you denying that people lost their jobs because they did not take the jab?
Have you been living on a cave for the last 3 years?
Pro jab extremists such as yourself who refuse to countenance there are any downsides to the vax encourage conspiracy theorists.
Of course some people were injured. Why do you seek to deny this?
https:/time.com/5947134/AstraZeneca-covid-vaccine-stopped/
This link from Time, surely mainstream enough for you.
The only ‘deluded’ person around here is you.

ooops

Very typical of the old covid threads. People getting angry and calling others deluded. I am sorry people have been ill/felt the need to blame your illness on a vaccination. You are in the tiny minority - this is just a tiny, tiny corner of the Internet- hope the thread gives you comfort - I suspect the outside world doesn't.

Sorry @Jumpingthruhoops i responded to the wrong poster, mea culpa

It’s quite interesting that if you were remotely cautious about the jibby jab a year or 2 ago, you would have been hounded off mumsnet, your account possibly even banned.

Back then Mumsnet was even aggressively promoting it as safe to pregnant women, even going as far as paying telly doctors such as Dr Amir Khan to promote it as ‘safe and effective,’ even though it had not yet been trialled on pregnant women.

An internet site like this should NEVER push a pharmaceutical treatment on anyone.

Back then Mumsnet was even aggressively promoting it as safe to pregnant women, even going as far as paying telly doctors such as Dr Amir Khan to promote it as ‘safe and effective,’ even though it had not yet been trialled on pregnant women.

Likewise the NHS and Royal College of Obstetricians &Gynaecologists.You make it sound as if MN thought it up as an idea. 😆

By that more than 62,000 women had had the CV in the UK. More than 150,000 in the US.

But you know.