If you are unvaccinated/yet to be vaccinated and…

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Go about you normal day to day …go to work/public transport/ eat out/children in school/supermarket visit etc with the required precautions taken have you managed not to get COVID so far?
A genuine question to understand how this compares with the highly transmissible delta variance…
I’m 40- not yet vaccinated and go into work only 1 day now…but I don’t go anywhere else so might not be giving a realistic picture…

Note: this is not a name calling, or shouting at people for not being vaccinated thread. Please don’t turn this into one….

@Holidayhomeone that is reassuring to hear..my husband has me convinced that it’s a death sentence which is playing havoc with my anxiety

my husband has me convinced that it’s a death sentence which is playing havoc with my anxiety
Lots of people have been "brainwashed" into thinking that Covid = death.

Logically we know that it isn't true but still it is hard when it is repeatedly being drummed into us.

Truth and accuracy disappeared about a year ago

Was really really strict first lock down and followed all the rules and then some.
Second lock down carried on normal life. Only difference is I wear a mask in shops. Don't bother sanitising. Have people over. Kids do too (in 20's) youngster go to school and mix. In the office and don't distance.

Have had Covid - I was lucky was like bad flu, and I won't have the vaccine till 2023.

I have worked the whole way through the pandemic, done my shopping in store and so far so good. I wear a face mask whenever I'm out and about and I wash my hands regularly.

Hi!

I’m 34, unvaccinated as yet and have worked throughout the whole pandemic in a people facing role, I do all the shopping, school runs, have eaten out etc.. when the restrictions have allowed..

Haven’t caught Covid or been contacted as a close contact of a positive person either.

I do nothing special, I wear my mask and sanitise my hands, that’s about it.

I’m glad it’s reassured you. I kept waiting for it to get worse, maybe we were lucky. I don’t think anyone knows with this variant yet how harmful it is- we know it’s more transmissible but I saw somewhere the other day that symptoms are similar to a cold (headache, sore throat, runny nose)... I’m sure there’s research somewhere saying that viruses can weaken and die out over time so I wonder if that will happen in this case?

So many women reporting on the vaccine having an effect on their periods www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4278848-have-you-had-period-oddness-since-the-covid-vaccine

[quote Holidayhomeone]So many women reporting on the vaccine having an effect on their periods www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4278848-have-you-had-period-oddness-since-the-covid-vaccine[/quote]
A consultant gynaecology has offered a very rational reason for this. Its all over social media if you look for it.

@Holidayhomeone yes I’m aware if this, one of the reasons why I am uncomfortable around this vaccine. Give me any other vaccine I’ll happily take it and have taken it..but this one feels like an evolving study…and incase there is vaccine damage or worse the attitude seems a bit like ’oh,well - collateral damage’…I know my individual life is not worth anything more than another person but I find it difficult to see it as completely worthless as well…

@Torvean that it’s coincidental? Seems strange that women are experiencing things they’ve never had before like bleeding after menopause, periods starting and stopping etc. Unless I’ve been looking at a different response that reasoning just seems dismissive and actually quite insulting

@Holidayhomeone I read the bbc piece and I did find it a bit irritating that it went on to explain that if your immune system is under pressure then there will be changes to your cycle..,but I find it difficult to understand how that’s never happened when you are ill but it does with the vaccine? I’ve had bad chicken pox when I was 37..pretty high fever and my lymph nodes were swollen to the ping I had neck ache..but even the. Didn’t have an effect on my period…

Stress can absolutely count for a lot if the cases.
And some ppl got extremely worked up( understandably in some cases) over covid/restrictions/masks and vaccinations. Stress whether conscious of subconscious can cause menstrual changes.
Periods can be later/ longer , heavier/lighter and you can have more clots etc. I don't think if that's a one off that its anything extraordinary.

Woman who have unexplained spotting, bleeding though in well established menopause should speak to their Gp just as you normally would.

I have recently had my first vaccine, so don’t quite fit the criteria, but I have just been going about life as normal. Kids at school, shopping in store etc, and have just had a negative antibody test (related to natural immunity, not vaccine immunity), so I’m guessing I haven’t come into contact with it.

Not vaccinated.

I'm recovering from the delta variant, my fourth time infected with covid.

I spent 3 months in bed from March 2020. Went back to work in June 20. Have stuck to social distancing, hands and masks but keep on getting it. Have had negative tests in between infections and had no antibodies in March this year. I'm thinking of testing again to see have I developed any.

OP I really feel for you. The level of pressure on us to have this vaccine is unprecedented and in most cases it's unnecessary. Luckily my DP is a narcissist so he hasn't even noticed I haven't had mine. I firmly believe that this vaccine is having an impact upon some women's menstrual cycles and the dismissal of women's experience as coincidental is insulting. I hope you can make your decision and feel comfortable with it.

@StarCat2020

I have not been vaccinated but I barely leave the house as there is nothing to go outside for any more.

I have a F2F appointment at the Job Centre next week as part of UC bgut it may get cancelled and turned into a phone appointment like the last few.

Really? I’m so sorry to hear that Since we were allowed out on April 12 we’ve been out and about all over. At our caravan loads, 20 of us went to centre parks recently, been for meals in restaurants Cinema twice, a couple of music gigs, loads of pubs, loads of shops, supermarkets , outdoor and indoor markets and outdoor music gigs Seen family loads..well all the way through to be fair Off on holiday next week

No mask, no vax
All good👍

@Tootsey11

Not vaccinated.

I'm recovering from the delta variant, my fourth time infected with covid.

I spent 3 months in bed from March 2020. Went back to work in June 20. Have stuck to social distancing, hands and masks but keep on getting it. Have had negative tests in between infections and had no antibodies in March this year. I'm thinking of testing again to see have I developed any.

Oh gosh. Hope you don't mind me asking, but how on Earth have you had Covid 4 times when most of us have never had it? Do you work or spend time in close proximity to people? Or do you just have a weak immune system? I'm genuinely curious. I've never heard of this. Hope you're ok!!

@shewalkslikerihanna
Thank you for your kind message.

It is great that you have been making the most of the summer and easing up.

I am not sure but I think maybe you think I am scared of the world but I am not at all. It is just that I have nothing to go out for or anyone to go anywhere with now but if I did I would be beating you to it!!

I'm not vaccinated yet! In my twenties, so only called up recently and couldn't get an appointment which was accessible by public transport until this Sunday - done weekly testing and never had a positive test and I've always done what was allowed e.g. eaten indoors, shopped. Broken social distancing rules so I could go see my boyfriend after several months separation in the first lockdown (we both live in houseshares) but I've always been good with masks and handwashing and appear not to have caught it so far touches wood

@Tootsey11

Are you in touch with any medical people who are taking bloods etc? This disease is so random, there must be some reason why some people never get it despite sharing a bed with an infected person, some people get it despite being vaccinated, and some poor people like you get it over again. I really hope they're keeping an eye on you and that this awfulness stops soon.

I feel like I should also get antibodies or even t-cells checked

Have three kids in school, don’t sanitise hands (just soap and water), in shops, out and about. One of my children had an odd virus at the start of lockdown and I felt a bit strange for a few days (I’m rarely ill) so I just don’t know

Over 50 here, unvaccinated, carried on working (and socialising) all the way thru from March last year and absolutely fine

Hiya
I’m 32 not had jab and not having it… lived normal throughout and not had covid x

I’m 36 sorry don’t know why I put 32