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If you could choose a vaccine

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Namechanged4thi5 · 20/06/2021 11:14

Which one would you have? I need to book my first after much deliberation and even now not 100% sure but I need to get it done.
Sine I’m not comfortable find really difficult and anxiety inducing to look at yellow card etc…so thought I’ll try here as a starting point

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RedactedTaeFeck · 20/06/2021 17:46

DH and I both had a day of being tired with a mild headache and less so after 2nd. We'd both had covid last spring so I think are slightly more likely to have a reaction. We both had sore arm after the first and less so on the 2nd.

Sorryusernamealreadyexists · 20/06/2021 18:16

Pfizer, which is what I’ve had. I know two people from our small town who’ve had blood clots from AZ. So either it’s more prevalent than they are reporting or huge coincidence

chefcarl · 20/06/2021 18:57

@MaBroon21

I’m due to get Pfizer tomorrow but I have a catastrophic allergy to penicillin and I’m rather worried.

Don't be - My mum and sister both allergic to penicillin were fine. Actually mum has multiple allergies, so initially thought she wouldn't be able to have phizer. all fine though.

Spied · 20/06/2021 19:06

I had x2 AZ.
Second was the week the info started to come out with the blood clot risks and I'll admit to being terrified at the time.
I'm very grateful however to have had my jabs.
Given the choice I'd have chosen Pfizer. Pfizer due to the efficacy.

gamerchick · 20/06/2021 19:10

@Lindy2

I'd probably choose AZ. It's been made using traditional methods. Pfizer uses a brand new technique. I think I prefer tried and tested but to be honest I'm grateful to have had anything and not to have had to choose as I'm not a scientist.

Pretty much this. I'm happy I've had both doses of AZ.

delilahbucket · 20/06/2021 19:11

I have lots of allergies including penicillin. I was fine with Pfizer just Covid Arm at day 8 which lasted 24 hours. Doctors treated it as cellulitis just to be on the safe side and I discovered another antibiotic I can't take that made me very ill, and I know it was the antibiotic because I was fine when I stopped taking it.
At first I preferred AZ but wanted Pfizer in the end and as I am under 40 the choice was taken away for me. I wish people would stop harping on about MRNA being a new technology. It's been in development for 30 years and has been used for several years in other treatments such as cancer.

luckylavender · 20/06/2021 19:38

Any one of them. I had AZ and I'm grateful.

ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn · 20/06/2021 20:16

I didn't care which vaccine, and happily had AZ. I have anaphylaxis and a clotting disorder.

Anaphylaxis rates are pretty similar for Pfizer and AZ so that shouldn't sway a decision unless you are or are likely to be allergic to a vaccine ingredient (which you don't seem to be OP). The penicillin thing has been debunked.

Skyliner001 · 20/06/2021 20:22

AZ, zero side effects

MaBroon21 · 21/06/2021 03:47

@MaBroon21 in also allergic to penicillin. Didn't realise there was a link?

I don’t think there is but I’m still worried. I worry with most drugs I’m prescribed.

MaBroon21 · 21/06/2021 03:53

Many thanks for the rest-assurances from everyone kind enough to share their personal experiences.

I haven’t read anything about reactions but such is my sensitivity to the penicillin family that it’s always foremost in my mind when being prescribed any kind of medication.

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Namechanged4thi5 · 21/06/2021 09:31

@MaBroon21 glad you feel assured

It feels like such a difficult decision (for me) as not comfortable with all the pressure around this vaccine

Also is the same focus being applied for the therapy side as well? Are the patients in the hospitals being given different/better therapeutic support than a year ago when all this was new?
I hope so but haven’t seen much talk about that…

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Cookerhood · 21/06/2021 17:02

Are the patients in the hospitals being given different/better therapeutic support than a year ago when all this was new?
Yes,that's why a lower percentage of patients are dying. Now it's also due to the age of patients, but back in the winter they knew much better how to treat patients than they did in spring 2020 (steroids, proning people etc etc).
Mostly down to the amazing patients agreeing to be part of clinical trials.

Boulshired · 21/06/2021 17:08

If available I would want Novavax, and I am hoping that it will do well in the cross over and be the autumn booster. DS2 was offered Pfizer off license as he is disabled but the couldn’t get near him with the needle, I would prefer Novavax for him as well as he has had the flu vaccine for many years.

winched · 21/06/2021 18:33

At the moment none, but possibly Novavax in future.

DramaAlpaca · 21/06/2021 18:35

My preference was for Pfizer or Moderna. I was offered Moderna and was very happy about that.

Cinni23 · 21/06/2021 18:35

They're all safe and much of a muchness. I had what I was given (Pfizer). Never questioned which Flu jab I have so tried not to over think this one either.

amicissimma · 21/06/2021 20:48

I volunteer in a vaccine centre and as one of my major activities there is tending the (small number of) people who've felt unwell or actually passed out after the Pfizer, my preference would be AZ. I was fine afterwards to go home and feel fluey for a few hours later in the privacy and comfort of my own bed.

We've not had any problems at the centre following AZ and we're now doing about 50:50. We were doing more AZ previously.

(I had no noticeable effects at all following my second AZ)

Roonerspismed · 21/06/2021 20:57

None. Maybe the Chinese one!

Pfizer/Moderna- long term effects worry me plus heart issues plus the long term distribution of the nanoparticles. This is dismissed as quackery but there is very little research

Az - GM spike protein, concerns about these being unstable and moving around, different levels of proteins in batches, period issues.

The Novovax uses nanoparticles. If I could see decent and detailed safety tests on that I would consider it. (And no, statements that “there is no evidence that....” doesn’t appease me).

I’m pretty hacked off by it all. I would just like to get covid and isolate and be done with it. I trust my immune system to operate far more
effectively than any of the above
.

ViperAtTheGatesOfDawn · 21/06/2021 20:59

I trust my immune system to operate far more
effectively than any of the above

You are very lucky then to have an immune system that isn't trying to kill you.

Roonerspismed · 21/06/2021 21:02

Yes and I want to keep it that way. The only reason I want a vaccine is to protect those less lucky than me. Right now I’m struggling with it all. Really struggling between wanting to do the right thing and being horrified at emerging data. I don’t know the answer but I cannot take any of these vaccines right now. I’m sorry

vodkaredbullgirl · 21/06/2021 21:04

The 1 I have already had 2 doses of, pfizer hardly any side effects.

byvirtue · 21/06/2021 21:05

I’m still undecided maybe the Janssen one when we get supplies. It’s similar to AZ but one shot.

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 21/06/2021 21:07

Whichever you can have first so it can start getting to work to provide protection.

HairyToity · 21/06/2021 21:15

Pfizer

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