Going around in circles - where can I get advice?

[firefly101]

After my 1st dose of AZ, I developed nose bleeds and severe headaches. My GP sent me to A&E who did a blood platelet count and said I seemed ok but come back if it didn't stop.

I need to decide what to do about the second dose, my GP has told me to ask at the vaccination centre as "they are the experts".

I've emailed the centre (so as not to waste an appt) and they emailed back "ask your GP".

I tried calling 119 but just get a recorded message.

Please tell me what I am missing? Do I need to call A&E and ask to speak to the Doctor who treated me there? Surely A & E have better things to do?

Go back to GP and tell that centre said ask gp? Surely the GP has records of your A&E notes?

Is there a GP at the vaccination centre you can ask if not your GP needs to be looking into it for you.

Your GP can prescribe ‘Naseptin Nasal Cream’ to heal the aggravated papules that at the top of your nostrils that cause nosebleeds. Nosebleeds could be triggered by hay fever or a normal cold and nose blowing. It’s totally unrelated to blood pressure or anything like that 🙂

Also if your nostril applies are aggravated, you may find a change in environment temperature (hot to cold) or even walking into a hot room can trigger your nosebleed. It’s not a vaccine reaction 🙂

@roguetomato

Go back to GP and tell that centre said ask gp? Surely the GP has records of your A&E notes?

Yes you'd have thought so! He was quite insistent that I needed to ask someone else.

@Rainbowsandstorms

Is there a GP at the vaccination centre you can ask if not your GP needs to be looking into it for you.

Thanks. The vaccination centre says no GP, my GP says not his problem.

Don’t mention the vaccine, he’s probably sick of millions of worried people who have been scared by anti-vaxers. Just mention you have nosebleeds and get the nasal cream. Headaches could be the vaccine side effects or hay fever (which is high at moment) or cold/bug. Your immune system is busy making a healthy response so you will feel a little rundown (which is good) but you may be susceptible to any bugs about. That’s all.

@WuhanClanAintNothingToFuckWith

Your GP can prescribe ‘Naseptin Nasal Cream’ to heal the aggravated papules that at the top of your nostrils that cause nosebleeds. Nosebleeds could be triggered by hay fever or a normal cold and nose blowing. It’s totally unrelated to blood pressure or anything like that 🙂

Thanks, that interesting. The nurse I spoke to and A&E doc seemed to think it could be vaccine related, I was put on an AZ pathway not a ENT pathway.

Also an unpublished preprint of a study done by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, NIPH, concludes that the AstraZeneca Covid-vaccine may lead to less severe bleeding disorders, and not only the very rare blood clotting side effects that have been widely reported.

sciencenorway.no/covid19-vaccines/people-vaccinated-with-astrazeneca-reported-mild-bleeding-episodes-significantly-more-often-than-those-who-got-an-mrna-vaccine/1842859

Hopefully it was just a coincidence!

People who got Astrazeneca reported everything including insect bites and chlamydia. Headaches are common with all the vaccines, drinking lots more water than normal can help, as can paracetamol. Nose bleeds seem more common after AZ but reported after all the vaccines (and some cases may be unrelated, they are common anyway). Getting your platelets tested doesn't prove somehow that there was a vaccine issue in your case, that's just the process. As your platelet count was ok, I'm not sure what you're worried about exactly? If you really don't want a second dose of AZ then you'll need to talk to the CCG to get them to approve it.

@MRex

People who got Astrazeneca reported everything including insect bites and chlamydia. Headaches are common with all the vaccines, drinking lots more water than normal can help, as can paracetamol. Nose bleeds seem more common after AZ but reported after all the vaccines (and some cases may be unrelated, they are common anyway). Getting your platelets tested doesn't prove somehow that there was a vaccine issue in your case, that's just the process. As your platelet count was ok, I'm not sure what you're worried about exactly? If you really don't want a second dose of AZ then you'll need to talk to the CCG to get them to approve it.

That’s reassuring thanks. Having never suffered from nosebleeds before it’s odd how they just started.

What I am worried about? Well I don’t want to spend another evening in A&E for starters. (I went because the GP told me to, I thought following his advice was the sensible thing to do). I don’t really want to spend a week / 10 days waiting for symptoms which may or may not appear. Lastly, I don’t want to be the one in a million who dies leaving my children motherless, very unlikely I know.