Really regretting getting the Covid jab (warning pity party)

[FlemCandango]

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.

By that time

My first 3 jabs were all Pfizer and I barely had any side effects. Next booster was Moderna and I woke that night with a raised temp, shivering, muscle aches all over and weird muscle spasms in my neck. I was quite scared about the spasms . They went off by the next morning. This last one in October was Pfizer again and I was relieved as I’d been fine after those. I woke in the night again with the same weird things as the last one but milder. I was told they’d modified it from the first Pfizer to be more effective against Omicron. I’ll still have others if I’m offered them though.

I had the booster, DH didn't. We just had Covid (Pirola variant maybe). I had a slight runny nose and felt tired for a day, whereas DH had 3 days of fever, a nasty cough and generally felt awful. I'll keep on with the boosters, thanks.

Lol. No worries.

I’m sorry about your son. The pandemic made me see how scarily lacking critical thinking is on both sides - either people swallowed crazy conspiracy theories, or blindly followed arbitrary rules and dismissed legitimate concerns.

Today I came across a research paper that cited ‘believing Covid was leaked from a lab’ as an example of a ‘baseless paranoid delusion.’ It’s now widely accepted that this is what happened.

'Felt the need to blame your illness on the vaccine?'

Chose your wording REALLY carefully there, I see? Are Coroner's reports confirming the jab as the cause of death (in the case of Lisa Shaw, for example) not enough for you?

I am genuinely interested to understand the mindset of people who point blank REFUSE to acknowledge that this jab - however good it might have been - has damaged people. Or worse. Which it has!

The fact it's a 'tiny minority' is ZERO comfort to those people. Your post - on a thread like this - is completely tone deaf.

I collapsed days after having the covid jab (this was my 2nd)

After many tests, investigations and further loss of consciousness episodes, I was diagnosed with SVT. Now on medication for life, or until I get my surgery date.

Not a single episode before having the jab. No previous heart history and I'm in my 20s.

Overall the vaccine helped society open up again and saved many lives.

BUT that does not mean that it is perfect or 100% safe and I feel for all the people who have been injured by it. Not only do they have vaccine damage but also they get shouted down by asshats.

It should actually be a simple maths question: at any given age/personal health status is the vaccine more likely to harm you or is covid more likely to? Those who would benefit from the vaccine should be offered it, and those who would be more at risk from it shouldn't.

And on that note - in hindsight I made a mistake when I vaccinated my kids, the odds were never right for vaccinations being needed for them.

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

My illness WAS caused by the vaccine. 3 medics supported it. In fact 4 if l count emergency care.

Who is insisting?! I would strongly advise people consult with their doctors or their HCP if they are eligible. I wouldn’t say they should or should not do anything medical. I’m not a doctor!
Otherwise young and healthy people aren’t offered either the Covid or the flu jab - although you can pay for the latter, so it is a non issue.

I had a horrific reaction to my 4th vaccine. I had pretty rotten reactions to the previous 3 (bed bound and days long) but managed them. And the balance of risk was worth it due to my health issues.

My 4th vaccine caused a neurological issue (confirmed by neurologist). It may well have been my autoimmune issues over reacting to the vax that caused it. I'm now no longer allowed anymore.

I had spinal inflammation and a foot drop and spasticity. Thankfully this has pretty much resolved and I only occasionally have slight se station changes in that leg. I'm very lucky.

I don't regret getting it. Was the right decision with the info I had at the time. I'm very pro vax but I appreciate its not black and white and absolutely believe people who have had bad reactions.

It's very much an individual choice based on personal circumstances.

That's interesting, Jennifer. In Australia, it's still possible to buy Zantac and many generic versions off the shelf. I have some in my cupboard right now. Nexium, however, I'm wary of as it caused gallstones in a friend.

All medications carry risks and side effects - even paracetamol and ibuprofen.

@Jumpingthruhoops

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.

Still have provided any sources of interest, though?

FYI, I provided one poster with several 'sources of interest' actually and they, in turn, thanked me for them. 👍

You're clearly just looking for an argument. That reply (hours ago) clearly wasn't to you, so you have absolutely NO reason to @ me again.

I'm allowed to read the thread, and reply to whatever I like. Although you've had some good debates with numerous posters, I noticed you haven't yet provided that mysterious information you were hinting at. Or perhaps you did, and I was just underwhelmed?

Yep, that's gotta be it. Have a nice evening.

Well aren’t you lucky then?

Myself and another person l know have been severely affected. Just because you don’t know anyone doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

When l saw the consultant he said ‘he’d seen all sorts of weird reactions’. Can’t tell you what the other consultant said as I’m still in waiting list since April. And it’s an 18 month wait from now

Just because you don’t know anyone doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.

I know three people who died from covid vax, one within 24 hours from a massive stroke, one many months after hers, having developed a severe type of vaccine induced guillain-barré syndrome and then had a massive stroke, one whose heart weakened after each booster and then died from heart failure. I have a relative who has developed mysethenia gravis after multiple boosters. She's still with us, thank goodness!

As of December 2022, ONS stats:

In England, there are 59 deaths registered involving COVID-19 vaccines causing adverse effects in therapeutic use, of which 51 have this ICD-10 code as the underlying cause of death.

In Wales, there is 1 death registered with COVID-19 vaccines causing adverse effects in therapeutic use as the underlying cause.

So, 60 people in England and Wales have died from the covid vaccine and you knew three of them? (Obviuosly there will sadly have been more deaths this year, but still seems amazing that you knew three of what will still be a relatively small number of people?)

No, 60 might be the number of people they cannot argue as to having died as a result of the vaccine. Do you know how hard it is to get a severe reaction to a vaccine recognised as such? Do you actually believe that none of the huge number of "sudden deaths" reported in the press or the huge number of strokes and cardiac arrests causing deaths of late are in any way related to the covid vaccines? One of the ladies who I know that died literally had the jab and died the next day. Mid 40s, mum of three, otherwise fit and healthy.She isn't in the ONS stats as she lived in the US. The other lady was my colleague. Diagnosed as vaccine induced CIDP, then died of a massive stroke. The third was my uncle. We watching him deteriorate after each booster. Do you think his doctors recorded that as a vaccine related death? Don't be ridiculous! 60 people?! GIven that I DO know three, I would suggest that 60 is a MASSIVE underestimate.

Do you think his doctors recorded that as a vaccine related death? Don't be ridiculous! 60 people?!

I suppose it depends wether you think most doctors are just ordinary, you know honest people or up to something more sinister. Which sorry I don't. Especially as I know a few personally.

Do you actually believe that none of the huge number of "sudden deaths" reported in the press or the huge number of strokes and cardiac arrests causing deaths of late are in any way related to the covid vaccines?

Which ones are that?

GIven that I DO know three, I would suggest that 60 is a MASSIVE underestimate.

With respect "DO" doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Respectfully, you'd be surprised. People were being banned for all kinds of seemingly 'insignificant' things during the pandemic. Content using a 'workaround' stayed up. Just.

I found this exchange between US representative and a Twitter employee very interesting. Whatever your politics, I think we can all agree that those with no medical qualifications have absolutely no right silencing actual experts just for having a different opinion. Which they did.

Have a watch: