Blood type and side effects of vaccine?

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Just a quick straw poll as we've been having this discussion at home and wondered if there might be something in it.

What blood type are you?
Did you get a lot of side effects from the vaccine?
Which vaccine did you have?

Ah ok. They didn't put blood type on maternity notes when I was pregnant.

My hunch is people are mistaken about their blood type. IIRC there are always too many ABs reported on MN threads.

I'm definitely AB+. Found out during 1st pregnancy then a few years ago, after having some blood tests at the hospital, one of the documents I came home with was a credit card sized thing with AB+ in big letters on it.

I'm one of the AB myself. I was a blood donor for many years, had regular "Please come give us your rare blood type" donation requests. I wonder why so many on MN. Maybe ABs are the people most interested in our 'rare' blood type so then we can actually remember what it is.

I will ask DD about her side effects in a minute.

@knittingaddict

O negative - sore arm for 2 weeks. No other symptoms.

I did this post earlier, but forgot to say which vaccine. It was AZ.

B+
AZ
Mildly sore arm, hangover like grogginess for 2 days

I think as MN is populated by a lot of parents, there's a good chance that lots of people know through having been pregnant. I only know from pregnancy.

Also possible that ABs are over reported as it's a slightly more remarkable blood type so their ears will prick up at a subject where they're more interesting than the majority iyswim. A slight confirmation bias.

Maybe ABs are more likely to have had the vaccine? Are there more ABs in the older generation? Could being AB be associated with health conditions that would result in being offered the vaccine early? Are ABs more likely to be a particular ethnicity?

Being an AB, I have looked into this a bit . "Ethnicity" (not sure how categories are derived here, look a bit odd) distribution here - seems to be higher in Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Hungarian gypsys.

www.babymed.com/pregnancy-test/ethnic-distribution-of-blood-types#

Blood groups are also subject to geo-ethnic factors. For added complications. The A/B/AB/O distribution varies around the globe

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country

For example my (and my 2 DBs) blood grouping (all O -ve) would have been skewed by our non-British father.

O+ 1st jab (pfizer) completely fine
2nd nausea, painful arm, loss of appetite, chills exhausted had to take day off work.

B+ Pfizer - no significant side effects after 1st or 2nd jab, arm slightly sore for 24hr but nil else

No idea of my blood type. No Ill-effects at all.
Helpful, not 😁

A+, AZ, Fluey (nausea, chills, fever, aches) after 24 hours which lasted 36 hours.

A+ AZ vaccine. Nothing other than a sore arm and a sore armpit for a few hours the following day. Age 34

I am B- and was given a card to carry with my blood group on it from the hospital I gave birth in - this was going back 31 years today 😂

O+, AZ, no side effects. I’m 50.

DH is A+, felt fluey for two days and had a headache he couldn’t shift. He’s 56.

He also had AZ

O+
AZ
Generally feeling a bit rubbish, until five days later when I developed hives all over my body. Went away after five days. Dose 2 will be interesting

A+ Pfizer, a bit of a sore arm

A+ sore arm for about 6 hours after first
Felt physically fine after second but had insomnia for about 5 days which is very unlike me.
I had Pfizer

O negative. Had both jabs (Pfizer) and no side effects whatsoever.

A+

Sore arm, shivering and couldn’t get warm, general feeling of being bit under the weather.

AZ

RH B Neg. Had the AZ and had flu symptoms for about 36 hours. In bed with high temp and aches. Felt well enough to return to work after 48 hours with just the sore arm lasting a further few days. I'm really not looking forward to the second one.

o positive
just a sore arm

i think age is more important? but i am not sure.