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. 😣

At 48, I can't wait to have the vaccine. I feel fortunate to live in a country where this is possible.

No, not at all. More I learn about the facts, more I am convinced that getting vaccinated was the right choice.
People has different reaction to many things. I do feel safer about the vaccine more now since possible serious side effects has been highlighted and monitored.

@GoLightlyontheEarth

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.

@GoLightlyontheEarth. Your post is inaccurate. Covid vaccines are included in the vaccine damage payments scheme.

www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-add-covid-19-to-vaccine-damage-payments-scheme

I've read a load of the scaremongering threads on here about AZ - would still have the jab today if I could!

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

You're only seeing "no end" of reports because the more you read the more you're shown thanks to social media algorithms.

It's been a month since you had it ffs 😂 no need to be "terrified"

@Urbacodon

As others have said, if you’ve taken the pill or been pregnancy, you already had a much higher risk.

I’m actually very jealous you’ve had a vaccination!! There seems to be a significant political agenda behind the bad press.

Or flown, especially long haul. And yes, I Know it's a 'different type of blood clot' but it's still a risk of blood clot.

The strangest one I read yesterday on MN was 'someone's sister' wouldn't get the vaccine due to the risk of a blood clot with it, but would get it if it was needed to fly.

So this sister was worried enough not to have the vaccine where the risk of the clots is tiny.

But was going to have It if it meant she couldn't fly otherwise - so she's take a vaccine she thought might cause blood,clots to do an activity that is known to cause blood clots. Just didn't make sense 🤷‍♀️

Definitely no regrets. Felt quite ill with chills and aches within a few hours but all over by 24 hours after. Have no doubt at all that it is well worth it and we are lucky to have a vaccine.

@TJ17

I've also been taking the pill for years which can cause breast cancer and blood clots.

Me too, like any medication I've taken / take, or any surgery I've had over the years (and consent forms I've signed) it's always been about weighing up the benefits against the risks.

I definitely don't regret having my first vaccine a few weeks ago, am clinically vulnerable and feeling relieved that I should now have some immunity against Covid. Everyone's got different circumstances, but for me personally I've weighed up what I see as very small risks against the benefits of having the vaccine and the benefits are far greater. My first was AZ so my second will be, I have an autoimmune condition amongst others and was warned I could get side effects afterwards. I had flu like symptoms for several days, feverish then chills and shivering, feeling weaker and more chronic pain than I usually have, I have a neurological condition as well and some nerve damage, I had some on and off numbness in my left arm and hand which was the side I had the jab in. After a week all the side effects had gone and I felt at least my body was responding and hopefully building some immunity. I expect side effects from my second vaccine and I know now there's a tiny risk of blood clots, but being vaccinated has far greater potential benefits to me personally.

4 weeks ago!

Oh my.

Absolutely not, I’m thrilled, only good bit about being over 50.

No, I’ve had both AZ vaccines.

It’s a vector vaccine so it’s not new.

You seem riddled with anxiety. Why don't you read up on the actual facts?

I've had both my Pfizer and am thrilled.

No I am chuffed to bits that I have had it and eagerly awaiting the second.

The chance of bad side effects is minute.

Life is a trade-off of risks one against the other.

While as a healthy 40 year old I've not been greatly concerned about my personal Covid risk any more than any other illnesses, the vaccine is still worthwhile. I'm still in the initial 48 hours and felt rather ropey yesterday. The data on severity of cases and viral spread make the initial side effects worthwhile. Years of hormonal contraception and childbirth have been a higher clotting risk than the vaccine, and the illness itsekf is associated with a risk of clotting.

Risk is always present, but with what we know, AZ and the other approved vaccines are significantly lower than Covid risk both to the individyal and wider society. The longer term risks may not be fully clear, but the same is true of encountering the virus anyway.

No.

Someone posted this link on other thread.
I think the time you need to be worried has passed, OP.
covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/vaccine-induced-prothrombotic-immune-thrombocytopenia-vipit-following-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccination/

@WilsonMilson

I don't understand your point at all.

If these issues are linked to the vaccine the length of time the vaccine was in trials for is irrelevant. These issues appear to show up very shortly after the vaccine has been administered. Watching the people in the trial (none of whom developed these symptoms) for longer would have made no difference.

The issue is these blood clots are so rare that you need to give the vaccine to millions of people to identify that there might be a connection. As a result the benefits of having the vaccine will outweigh the risks by a considerable margin.

@Urbacodon

As others have said, if you’ve taken the pill or been pregnancy, you already had a much higher risk.

I’m actually very jealous you’ve had a vaccination!! There seems to be a significant political agenda behind the bad press.

Isn't the clot caused by the pill more easily treatable and less dangerous though?

I could be wrong but if there had been a mythical trial involving millions of people (instead of thousands) and this clot had shown up at the same rate the AZ vaccine would still have been approved. Because it wasn’t seen in the trials and noted as an official rare side effect the media and politics have had a field day with it.

Some side effects just don’t show up until lots of people have taken a drug. The link between aspirin and children developing Reye’s syndrome took decades.

Clots are awful and the type that sparked concern particularly so, but now people can be advised on what symptoms to look out for in the extremely rare circumstance it does happen. The amount of people being vaccinated in the same time period means that ‘extremely rare’ is just seen more often.

The only thing that would make me regret having the wonderful life-saving vaccine is twats going on holiday and bringing back vaccine-escaping variants to the UK thinking their right to a holiday outweighs the health of people who are happy to holiday at home.
Bloody BBC breakfast news seemed to have been sponsored by the foreign holiday industry this morning. Yes, many have had their vaccines now - job done - box ticked - now let's invalidate the whole undertaking and import a load of new variants in the country so a certain travel journalist stood eagerly at Gatwick can go on his holidays.

Jeez. You’re the one who’s paranoid. And your post is inciting paranoia. End of. Just interesting that a number of these type of anti-vax posts over the past few weeks (A-Z haters) are started by fist time posters with no history of ever posting before on mumsnet. Just very interesting. No paranoia triggering here thank you. One very happy and grateful A-Z vaccinated human

HNRTT but if it's cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) about which you are concerned, I would hope someone has already suggested the following, OP.

Number of people who develop a CVST spontaneously before COVID - tiny;
Number of people who develop a CVST from a COVID infection - tiny but increased;
Number of people who develop a CVST from AZ vaccination - tiny but looks like it increases less that the risk of developing a CVST from COVID; and
Number of people for your age and risk who die from COVID (If you are CEV then I suspect this will HUGELY outweigh the risks of developing a CVST from AZ vaccination.

Don't forget the number of people who develop 'long' COVID and other significant adverse conditions or die later as a result of presentation of COVID without a vaccination to mitigate the disease progression. BTW, this is the issue that most concerns almost all the GPS and HCPs with whom I work and know.

The statistics are contested which is why I;'ve not given/not had time to look for reliable numbers to illustrate the above. If you are CEV then your risks will be determined by your personal risk factors but if you think you are worse off by having the AZ vaccination and decide not to have the second dose then that is your choice but from my understanding, you are wrong and will be actively harming yourself. The % increased mortality from CVST in AZ is minuscule compared with the % mortality from COVID for CEV.

FWIW, I had the AZ vaccination and had a strong preference for that.

Good luck.

Anti vac propaganda from first time poster. Reported

I'm absolutely ecstatic I had the AZ vaccine. One step closer to normality!

Being ill was much, much more likely with Covid than with the vaccine.

Ill be straight there as soon as they offer me my second and would encourage everyone else to take up this offer that we are beyond lucky to have in our country compared to the vaccinate rates elsewhere

@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. 😣

You're catastrophizing. You've got the risk so out of proportion to reality. It's fucking ridiculous.