Anyone else regretting their choice to get vaccinated?

[onthetracks]

I had my first vaccine 4 weeks ago (AZ)
I was really put off my having it and didn’t feel 100% happy, but since I’m clinically vulnerable to Covid and I also look after my elderly grandmother who is Clinically extremely l vulnerable, i thought it was the right thing to do.

Since having the vaccine I read no end of negative reports, side effects, blood clots and now deaths.

I’m terrified that I’m going to develop a blood clot and die.

I know this may sound irrational, which is surprising for me as I’m usually able to rationalise things.
But I can’t help feeling that it’s all been a bit rushed.
We’re all so desperate for normal life that we’ve jumped at the chance to be injected with something that we don’t actually know is safe.

Only now that millions of people are having the vaccine are we being alerted to adverse effects.

I’m really starting to regret that I’ve had the vaccine and I honestly don’t think I will go for my 2nd jab. 😣

My first was AZ, which, like you, I had before all the negativity. I'd rather have a different brand for the second but we must remember this: millions have been vaccinated with AZ and a handful have awful effects. It's really truly terrible what happened to those people but we mustn't let it define the vaccine.

No

There may be a link to the unusual blood clots, there may not be, further research is needed. But the thing to remember is that the rate is still around 1 in 2.5million for the blood clots which is far, far lower than the death rate from covid.

I don't think it's been proven the vaccine caused the blood clots has it? I think you are fine. The contraceptive pill is very proven to cause blood clots and many of us take that for years on end. I would do anything to get vaccinated at the moment but unfortunately think I will still be waiting months.

If you had it four weeks ago, you have passed the clotting risk period and now have substantial protection against covid. What is there to regret?

No, not at all. And am I right in thinking that if you're going to have a blood clot it would most likely be within 4 days and up to 20?

I'm delighted to have had my AZ vaccine because there has been nothing else to protect my health in my interactions with the 180 pupils per day in my classroom. I have colleagues in their 30s who would love to have it.

Absolutely not! There's no proven link as yet, and even if it does end up being linked, the chance of having this reaction appear to be about 0.0016% from what I've heard.

No

In balance.
We don't know everything about the vax but we know a lot less about long term covid.
We need to scrutinise the vax results very closely so the focus is on them.
The risks are tiny on their own and when you compare to the known risk of covid it's an obvious choice.

I just feel really glad to have had it, DH is CEV so anything I can do is helpful. Teen DS going to have the vaccine as well soon. So grateful we've got the vaccine so many other places don't have this option

We do actually know its safe otherwise it wouldn't have been approved. There is always a very small risk with any vaccine but that the risk from the disease is much higher.
I don't know where you're seeing all these negative reports but maybe stay off whatever sites that are posting this stuff?
Millions of us have had it without any harm or much in the way of side effects.

No regrets at all. Working in an NHS frontline role, I feel safer than I have done for a year and I know I am doing all I can to protect my patients.

There are bigger personal and societal risks to the disease that outweigh the risk you are worried about. You have done the right thing having the vaccine imo and should have the booster (covid causes blood clots in some people too). I'm sorry this has made you anxious - try to follow nhs advice and let the medicines regulators who have all the information and understand it make the decisions (they have said that many more deaths will be caused by countries pausing vaccination - you are increasing your risk if you don't have it).

@Eyewhisker

If you had it four weeks ago, you have passed the clotting risk period and now have substantial protection against covid. What is there to regret?

@Eyewhisker

I don’t think there is a “clotting period”, is there?

No. So pleased I’ve had it.

Op, just think of how many millions are vaccinated and only a handful have had clots, whether linked or not, any medication given in such large groups will no doubt have a reaction in a few people, just the law of averages, it is a minuscule chance.

I would love a vaccine but at 39 I will have to wait. One of my neighbours currently has a blood clot caused by covid.

I'm so glad my DH has had his I could have cried, he was hospitalised last year and it is such a bloody nasty unpredictable virus.

I’m 38 by the way, only vaccinated due to asthma.

Don’t regret it at all. The pill, pregnancy and post pregnancy have much higher risk.

No I don't regret it and looking forward to next dose in two weeks.

Read upon the risks of blood clots caused by catching Covid - it causes vascular complications.

FGS, there have been no deaths....Stop reading stuff on the internet and do your own research from proven sources.

Clots are in the normal range for the age group of people (i.e. not related to vaccines)

Have you ever taken the pill or been pregnant?

If it is considered as safe as we are told it is, why won’t the govt accept liability for vaccine damage in the future? That worries me a lot.

I opened this thread thinking you must have had horrendous side effects.

You've been a month without anything - you are most likely one of the millions who are fine with it. You now protect yourself and others who cannot have the vaccine, for whatever reason.

What's there to regret?

I’d love to have the opportunity to regret it. Sadly, I won’t be vaccinated any time soon despite being shut in a room everyday with 30 other people with no social distancing.