Triple Vaccinated and covid positive

[Laniey]

First vaccine: Dec 2020
Second vaccine Jan 2021
Booster: Oct 2021

Positive PCR today.

Hopefully it’s going to be a mild course. I got it double vaccinated before omicron arrived and felt quite grumpy about it.

Tripple vaxxed and been in bed for last two days. Still awaiting my PCR. I will be gutted if i have it 😷

Me too. Surprised if I would be feeling worse with no vaccines. All feels rather pointless.

DS had covid march 2019 then again may 2021 now aged 20 double jabbed so hopefully he'll avoid Omicron having had alpha and Delta but who knows

I was getting a bit blasé about the whole thing. Nearly 2 years of working around covid patients in the NHS and haven’t caught it yet. Thought I was bloody immune 😡

I'm not sure why people are still surprised they are getting it whilst vaccinated. There are loads of reasons why this might happen and in all likelihood your illness will be much less severe due to the fact you have been vaccinated - so happy days! For every person getting annoyed because they are vaccinated and have still tested positive there will be significantly more who would have tested positive but haven't done because they are vaccinated. In addition to that the main point of this vaccination effort hasn't been to stop people contracting the illness but to reduce the number of individuals needing hospital treatment for severe illness - which it has achieved and is continuing to achieve. 🤷‍♀️

@Laniey

I was getting a bit blasé about the whole thing. Nearly 2 years of working around covid patients in the NHS and haven’t caught it yet. Thought I was bloody immune 😡

I'm surprised you work in the NHS OP.

The messaging had always been clear. You can still catch it if you've been vaccinated.
However, you are less likely to be hospitalised or die, which is a MASSIVE bonus (for individuals and the NHS).
OP, hope you feel better soon 💐

I think a lot of us who wondered of we were immune will be caught up in this wave.

@alaiwnsksI think you’ve misunderstood. I don’t think anyone is saying they can’t understand how they could possibly have caught covid after vaccination. I absolutely understand all the reasons why I still got covid as a double jabbed person from my double jabbed husband (pre omicron). I still felt hard done by and I wasn’t expecting to feel as ill as I did. “Mild” illness can still feel pretty rotten. This is a thread for a bit of a moan, isn’t it?

Me too. I think I picked it up while en route to gat my booster. However, for the multivaxxed like DH and I the disease is nothing worse than a bad cold.

@monkeyblonde

Me too. Surprised if I would be feeling worse with no vaccines. All feels rather pointless.

My friend was hospitalised before vaccines so you could feel much worse

[quote PurpleDaisies]@alaiwnsksI think you’ve misunderstood. I don’t think anyone is saying they can’t understand how they could possibly have caught covid after vaccination. I absolutely understand all the reasons why I still got covid as a double jabbed person from my double jabbed husband (pre omicron). I still felt hard done by and I wasn’t expecting to feel as ill as I did. “Mild” illness can still feel pretty rotten. This is a thread for a bit of a moan, isn’t it?[/quote]
Exactly!

I'm only double vaccinated and I have it now. Have had it before too, in March 2020 (at least, had positive antibody test in summer 2020). My highly unscientific and entirely personal opinion is that the vaccines are a load of bollocks. A vaccine against a single disease is meant to produce lifelong or at least many decades of total immunity from one, maybe two initial doses. We've accepted that the flu vaccine doesn't do this, but the different strains of flu are much more heterogeneous than the Covid-19 variants. And other than older / more vulnerable people no one used to bother with the flu vaccine anyway.

My new view is that anyone living a moderately normal life is just going to get it every year or two, as with the other endemic coronaviruses. Any other outcome is going to be extraordinarily difficult, perhaps impossible, to achieve.

hipsalong, yes agreed.

The vaccine means it has a milder impact not zero impact. That's a win in my book.

Also triple vaxxed (booster in October) and got covid. No amount of vaccines were going to overcome positive DD sneezing constantly in my face (one directly in my eye) and positive DS deciding he was too ill to sleep anywhere but on top of me!

The good news is I had one evening of mild cold symptoms, 2 days of hay fever type symptoms (itchy nose and eyes) and then feeling perfectly fine today. Said children are also now perfectly well and bouncing off the walls. If I got mild covid symptoms after 3 vaccinations I really don't want to think how ill I would have been had DD sneezed in my face after no vaccines!

@hopsalong. But that's just not true. Many vaccines have a double or triple course, and have to be redone at something later. (MMR and HPV just off the top of my head) Flu is given every year because there are different strains in circulation and they try to predict the dominant one.

I'm triple vaccinated and didn't get it when the rest of the household (4 people) got it a couple of weeks ago.

We didn't distance either.

I had it. Triple vaxxed. Managed to avoid it other 2 times it's been the house but it finally got me. Thankfully although not fun it wasn't too bad

Double vaxxed husband developed a very mild, cold like covid. Me double vaxxed living in the same house didn’t get it despite daily contact. Howeever, my schoold friend who was 32, not vaccinated at all, strong healthy man, 34 years old died from covid 2 weeks ago. He didn’t have a hidden underlying condition, family are devastated.

@alaiwnsks

I'm not sure why people are still surprised they are getting it whilst vaccinated. There are loads of reasons why this might happen and in all likelihood your illness will be much less severe due to the fact you have been vaccinated - so happy days! For every person getting annoyed because they are vaccinated and have still tested positive there will be significantly more who would have tested positive but haven't done because they are vaccinated. In addition to that the main point of this vaccination effort hasn't been to stop people contracting the illness but to reduce the number of individuals needing hospital treatment for severe illness - which it has achieved and is continuing to achieve. 🤷‍♀️

For god's sake @alaiwnsks

I just had it despite being double vaxed. I felt rotten and hard done by. It's not nice being ill, especially when you have done the "right" thing and been vaccinated. Let people have a moan about it!

Surprised if I would be feeling worse with no vaccines. All feels rather pointless.

I know two people aged around forty, both otherwise very fit, who were in hospital for weeks with Covid pre vaccine.
One of them was considered lucky to survive.

So the above statement seems incredibly naive at best, even when making allowances for having a moan when feeling unwell.

@Frauhubert

Double vaxxed husband developed a very mild, cold like covid. Me double vaxxed living in the same house didn’t get it despite daily contact. Howeever, my schoold friend who was 32, not vaccinated at all, strong healthy man, 34 years old died from covid 2 weeks ago. He didn’t have a hidden underlying condition, family are devastated.

That's so sad, I'm sorry

@TheHolyPotato

hipsalong, yes agreed.

Yes me too.