To be somewhat proud of being vaccinated?

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With all the anti vax bollocks going about at the moment I’m somewhat proud of myself for actually going and getting vaccinated. I just think it’s mad that people won’t!

Oh, I see. That information/advice was given by two consultant neurologists on two different occasions in two different hospitals.

The problem that my DH had was an extreme autoimmune response two days after vaccination. He'd had Covid and flu vaccinations at the same time (as had I, incidentally). The consultant said the immune system had overreacted and that the risk of that happening is lower
if you leave about a month between vaccinations.

@SpudsAndCarrots that's genuinely crackers 😂 shes never had flu then. I had it once in my early 20s and as an asthmatic I've had one every year since, I'm definitely more scared of flu than the toxins...!!

I absolutely could not agree with you more.

Where on earth did your colleague get that information from, I wonder! There's so much misinformation out there nowadays.

Awaah that’s nice, I work in Pharma my background is microbiology. My workplace offer me a free flu job… I won’t be getting it! The Covid vaccine left me with a tachycardia and high blood pressure. Love science, don’t always trust it though…

Your husband probably had an exteeme autoimmune response because the covid jab is indeed triggering many people yo develope autoimmune diseases. They know this. Hence the bs about 'overloading' the system. It makes me mad and sad.

Same.

Oh God

People at work banging on about getting vaccinated are just as bloody boring as anti-vaxxers.

No wonder your colleagues are 'horrified'.

They probably just wish you'd stop.

So it’s purely anecdotal

Never had a COVID jab and never had a flu jab either. Judge all you want but the way I see it is it's my choice and everyone I knew who had the COVID jab ended up getting COVID and there was me shock horror no jab and never had it once. My 3 year old just had his flu spray one. Judge all you want but you realise some people are probably judging you right back for your pride at being a sheep 🤷

It’s actually insane.

I had flu once when i was at uni. It finished me off for about three weeks and my parents had to come and take me home, getting security to let them into my room, because I couldn’t get out of bed. I’ve got my flu jab every year since then.

The Covid jab didn’t stop you getting Covid. It stopped you getting as poorly.

I don’t understand why you’re conflating the Covid jab with ‘flu jabs? If you work in Pharma, you’ll know that ‘flu jabs variants have excellent safety records.

Sheep?

Not that you’ve gone down a rabbit hole or anything 🤣

But I never caught it even without the jab and I've seen many posts on here from people who had the jab and were quite seriously ill so I'll carry on as I have been thanks. I also had flu at 4 years old and Im unsure if I had a vaccine as a small child but I know from the age of 9/10 I haven't had one and never had flu again. Not getting some jabs doesn't make you a raging anti vaxxer. As I said my little one has had all his jabs

But imagine how poorly they would have been without the jab? I was the primary candidate for being very unwell with Covid. I was obese, unfit and unhealthy in general. I had the jab and thankfully it was very very minor for me. My dad with serious lung issues was fine too, because of the jab.

my mum nearly died from the flu last year, and she’d had the jab. The entire point is they make you less poorly.

I've been diagnosed with autoimmune disease in the last year and had covid jabs + 1 set of boosters before I started doubting the whole thing.
Do you have any links to the link between the two please? I'm seeing my specialist soon and would like to speak with him about this.
Thanks!

Tbf, you don’t know that. Many people were completely asymptomatic.

Ah. Hadn’t seen that. She’s not anti vax though!

I have only had the flu once, 2 years ago and I'm 45, so I don't bother.
I assume that most of my childhood vacations are useless now, DS has to get hib, meningitis etc every 5 years as he is immun-compromised

Hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I didn't think any of the covid jabs were compulsory. You must have chosen to have it. Nobody would have made you have a medical procedure you didn't consent to.

I tend to have all the vaccines I am offered, but have never felt it was something to feel 'proud' about. Simply my choice.

Yes indeed. I know two other people who've had similar reactions to the Covid vaccination.

I wonder whether (and this is entirely my own thoughts, no neurologists involved so could be barking up the wrong tree), since the majority of people receiving the Covid vaccination are elderly and have therefore ageing bodies with less than optimum immune systems, it's more likely that they'll experience extreme side effects because their immune system can't cope so well with the "instructions" received from the vaccine.

Are extreme autoimmune reactions more common in older people? I don't know but logic suggests that an ageing body is going to cope less well than a younger one.

The vast majority of people in the UK are vaccinated OP, it seems a very boring thing to be proud of.

I'm really not anti vax. I just don't think I need a COVID jab or a flu jab🤷

This.