Close to cancelling my vaccination. Please reassure me.

[justanothername2]

Name change for this. I know I’m being overly anxious but I need a hand hold.

My friend is insistent on always sending me doomy messages about the Covid vaccine.

They’re always screen shots of something she’s seen on Facebook. Someone has died, someone has been taken to hospital, someone has had liver failure.
The latest one today is that a 34 year old woman has dropped dead after her vaccine.

Mine is booked for tomorrow and I’m really, really worried.

I already suffer from severe anxiety. I know rationally I shouldn’t pay attention to some random Facebook posts.
I know millions of people have had theirs and have been absolutely fine.

Right now, I’m not rational. I’m panicking and I can’t think clearly.

I’m so close to cancelling my appointment 😭😭

I’ve lived in fear for months now and I’m so looking forward to being vaccinated, but this is just another fear to add to the list 😖

Please get your vaccination. You will be fine ignore your 'friend' - I had mine on Sunday. Was like a little scratch on my arm and done. No side effects I didn't even get a sore arm.

Shes obviously no friend, why would she be so spiteful?

I felt the same OP, so didn't go.
So glad I didn't now.
It's a very personal decision, do it for you, not others.
If you don't want it, don't have it, it isn't compulsory nor something to be seen as a duty to protect others.

I'm sure you know this, but since you asked for reassurance... Never believe anything you read on social media unless it is backed up by a link to a proper scientific study / proper news website. If these were real concerns they'd be in the news. Next time your friend sends you a story, ask her for her source.
You will be absolutely fine. Even if there was a one in a million chance of something happening (which there is no evidence for), it would be preferable to the estimated one in ten chance of long Covid if you catch the virus.

I had mine a few weeks ago. I didn’t even feel it! The next day or two I had a bit of a sore arm, and felt a little tired, that’s all. I went straight back to work after, and haven’t really thought about it since.

I don't understand why fake stories on SM about the vaccine will make you not want to have it, but the very real stories of the millions of death doesn't?

How many other vaccinations have you had in your lifetime? Have any of them caused you any difficulties?
This one should be no different. There will always be stories about 'people' and adverse reactions, some of which may be true, most probably are not.
You booked the jab at a point when you were comfortable enough to consider it, take yourself back to that moment and think.
For what it is worth, I had mine a few weeks ago and apart from a day of feeling a bit rubbish (my immune response kicking in - as it is designed to do), I felt ok and am pleased to have had it.

Take care, and try to listen to your own thoughts rather than those of your 'friend'.

Op unless you want to live in permanent fear get it.

Think of the millions in the UK who've had it and all the tests the vaccine has been through.

I'm not sure where your "friend" is getting her info from but I work in an NHS role where I see a lot of patient documentation and in all those hundreds (thousands?) of records I haven't seen anything worrying relating to Covid vaccinations at all. I've had both my jabs now and absolutely thrilled tbh!

Over 2.5 million people worldwide have now died of Covid. Do you really prefer that risk to any minuscule risk from the vaccine?

One way of thinking about it that may reassure you.

My mum ran marathons when I was little and I heard some statistic about how someone always dies during the London marathon. To reassure me she said '40,000 people run the marathon. If you lined 40,000 people up in chairs sat down for the day, one of them would probably also die'.

Millions of people are taking the vaccine. Of millions of people doing anything - getting in cars, going swimming, running marathons, taking a vaccine - one person somewhere will have bad luck and die. That isn't a good reason to avoid doing something that is overwhelmingly safe.

DH has been one of the drs on the prescribing team for his hospitals vaccine programme they have vaccinated over 30,000 people so far and have had no serious side effects recorded.
Some people do feel a bit crap afterwards, a couple have fainted but nothing serious.
He's also worked shifts in the Covid wards all year and that has been much scarier and sadder than the vaccine clinics including the loss of colleagues.
Both he and I (I'm in group 6) have now been vaccinated and that wouldn't have happened if we were concerned about our safety.

She's a nut job. An attention seeking nut job. Chances are the one with liver failure probably drank like a fish and the one who dropped dead may have had an aneurysm or heart attack or diabetes or something. Just because they got ill after having a vaccine doesn't make it because of the vaccine.

I had the shits after my flu vaccine. Doesn't mean I wont get it again. It was probably the hotdog I had from the street van.

If you take a group of 20 million plus people and do nothing some of them will die/ become, seriously I'll in the next couple of days. For example someone I know ended up in intensive care less than 24 hours after his jab. Nothing to do with the jab but because he did something really stupid and seriously injured himself. Someone could easily post on SM that he ended up in ICU without mentioning the Darwin Award level act.

As someone said on another thread, you have to look at the millions already vaccinated if it was so bad we would all be dropping like flies, but we are not.

The vaccination itself was fine and over in seconds, slight bit of dizziness and tiredness for a day, and a bit of a bruised arm for a few days.

I had mine yesterday. Slightly sore arm

I've had covid, and the vaccine (AstraZeneca) and I know which I'd choose to have again!

I am not anti vax by any means but two of my good friends have decided, for their own reasons, not to get their jabs. One (an HCP) had done thorough research and sent it to with me, which suprised me.

But for me, I decided I would prefer any (miniscule) risk of the jab side effects to getting Covid badly and ending up with long Covid or even dying (chances small but still, the ultimate bad end).

I hope you can make a decision you feel at peace with x

Is this the article you mean?

www.livemint.com/news/world/austria-suspends-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-batch-after-death-11615116433579.html

It is a bit worrying as they've destroyed the particular vaccine batch that the woman had. Can you raise your concern with them and ask when you arrive to be vaccinated if you can rebook for the Pfizer one?

Oh please don't x honestly had mine Monday all good, just some minor side effects, if you are in a group that currently can access it, grab it both hands

More than 320 million vaccine shots have been given worldwide. I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Nearly 20million vaccines and no (credible) consequent deaths. 120,000 have died from the virus that the vaccine prevents (or at least minimises).

Your “friend” sounds like a dick

If you have lived in fear for months you have already seen the deaths, the short segments on the news taken inside ICU’s of people of all ages desperately ill, people again of all ages suffering long term effects of catching COVID. People unwittingly infecting their loved ones with COVID. These are really happening on a global scale. Isn’t that more worrying to you than the Facebook experts ranting on about the effects of getting the vaccine. Yes it won’t protect you 💯 but it’s the only hope we have of returning to a normal life.
Just think if you got the vaccine and felt okay and then once you were fully vaccinated you could live without that dreadful anxiety spoiling your mental well-being, that has got to be worth plucking up the courage to have the vaccine.

your friend is a moron and peddling dangerous lies

Please get vaccinated