Booster or not

[Jabinderarm]

Personally I know too many people with adverse reactions now to taking the Injection. Such as clots, breathlessness , stomach pains, shingles , headaches .. I’m worried about taking the booster. Haven’t felt right since my second ?

@ReviewingTheSituation

Stories of side effects are often hearsay, and often exaggerated. You don't hear the stories of all the millions of people who get their booster with no side effects at all.

Things like shingles being linked to the booster... really?? Just because 2 things happen close together, it doesn't equal cause and effect.

Just get the booster and protect yourself.

And to the PP who has postponed to late Jan - I totally get not having it before NYE just in case (I waited until after a very intense week at work when I knew I couldn't afford to be under the weather), but why not just get NYE done and go next week?

I postponed to mid-Jan because that was when the next time slots at the place most convenient to me are.

If you want the booster just get it. Once you have it, it will take weeks to come into effect so delaying it by a week is actually delaying it by 5/6 weeks.

I had three lots of pfizer (first feb, last nov) and each time nothing of note happened to me just a sore arm.

Everyone is different but putting off a jab (if you want it) which might make you ill for a day seems strange when any of us could easily get covid at the mo and get ill for a week or more.

Not one person I personally know gas suffered more than a minor headache, fatigue and sore arm for short periods of time.
So OP you must know a lot of really unfortunate people!

Once you have it, it will take weeks to come into effect so delaying it by a week is actually delaying it by 5/6 weeks.
That's not true, it's a couple of weeks for the antibodies to build up & they don't go from zero to 100% on day 14.

I'm a nurse, all my colleagues are double vaccinated and most boosted, nothing worse with any of them beyond fatigue/aches/sore arm, this is an age range of 25-70. Same with all my friends and family, who are also vaccinated bar one.

Interesting how OP posts a comment on someone else's thread and and than starts this thread with virtually the sane post.

I had a horrific time with the booster, the first 24 hours were the worst, genuinely thought I wasn't going to make it through the night! I'm glad I didn't know what was to come, otherwise I would've thought twice about having it!

@stickymarshmallow

If you want the booster just get it. Once you have it, it will take weeks to come into effect so delaying it by a week is actually delaying it by 5/6 weeks.

I had three lots of pfizer (first feb, last nov) and each time nothing of note happened to me just a sore arm.

Everyone is different but putting off a jab (if you want it) which might make you ill for a day seems strange when any of us could easily get covid at the mo and get ill for a week or more.

I've felt quite rough after two Pfizers. I know people who have taken time off work to recover from various covid jabs. Covid itself was pretty much fine for me. Like you say, everyone's different.

I don't know anyone who has had worse side effects than a sore arm, a bit of a headache or mild fever for a day or so. And I know a lot of people who have had the jabs.

Personally, I doubt that you actually know many people who have experienced serious side effects and I suspect that you're just claiming this to further your anti-vax agenda. Sadly, it's people like you who may end up sending us back into lockdown in January. Shame on you!

If you want to travel next year then you'll need boosters as the double vax status runs out after 270 days so you wont be able to travel without it to many countries

@AlexaShutUp

I don't know anyone who has had worse side effects than a sore arm, a bit of a headache or mild fever for a day or so. And I know a lot of people who have had the jabs.

Personally, I doubt that you actually know many people who have experienced serious side effects and I suspect that you're just claiming this to further your anti-vax agenda. Sadly, it's people like you who may end up sending us back into lockdown in January. Shame on you!

Thats a bit unfair. It's the booster the OP is concerned about so how does that make them anti vax?

Shame on you for trying to shame people with genuine concerns. Whether you believe their reasons for their concerns or not does not mean they don't have genuine concerns.

I wouldn't shame anyone for having concerns @Potatodrivers, but I don't believe anyone who claims to know lots of people with serious side effects from the jabs. It's deliberate scaremongering. The OP tried posting this on another thread, didn't get a reaction so posted a new thread instead.

@Blubells

I'd love to see a study about the efficacy of these 'boosters'. The current vaccines/boosters were developed to target the original Alpha (?) variant.

How do people who are 1) unvaccinated, 2) double jabbed and 3) triple jabbed actually fare when infected with Omicron?

There’s tons of data. Follow @sailorooscout (Chise) on Twitter for good summaries. 2 jabs + booster gives good protection. You are much less likely to have severe disease from any variant if you’ve had a booster.

@Jabinderarm - I felt very grim after mine for 2 days but it’s just side effects. Unlike having actual Covid it doesn’t progress to pneumonia, doesn’t damage organs, doesn’t lead to long Covid. You won’t end up on a ventilator with damaged lungs. Once the side effects are gone you’re OK again.

Clots are extremely rare and I’ve never heard of the vaccines causing shingles.

The potential damage from Covid far outweighs the minor harm from the vaccines and the very rare serious side effects. The vaccines wouldn’t be licensed otherwise and no medical professional would be willing to give them. I work with a large number of medics and Covid researchers. They all got the vaccines and boosters as soon as they possibly could. Having said that it’s your choice and your risk to take.

@Northsoutheastwest76

Interesting how OP posts a comment on someone else's thread and and than starts this thread with virtually the sane post.

Well spotted.

@AlexaShutUp

I wouldn't shame anyone for having concerns *@Potatodrivers*, but I don't believe anyone who claims to know lots of people with serious side effects from the jabs. It's deliberate scaremongering. The OP tried posting this on another thread, didn't get a reaction so posted a new thread instead.

Quite There was someone the other who "knew" three people who'd died from the vaccine. Given that there have only been 9 confirmed vaccine deaths in the UK in total, that's some level of bad luck.

Don't get it. The side effects are awful.

Booster. It’s a no brainer!

How strange OP. I'm a GP and we have 10,000 patients registered with us. A good proportion have had their boosters and we haven't had anything like the number or severity of complications that your friends have had. What an unlucky bunch of people you know.

@Watapalava

If you want to travel next year then you'll need boosters as the double vax status runs out after 270 days so you wont be able to travel without it to many countries

That's a good point, and the main reason why I will get my booster done. That new rule doesn't apply everywhere tho (at least at the moment).

What people are complaining about as side effects, are generally not uncommon for vaccines.

The only difference between the childhood vaccines and Covid-19 ones is that babies and toddlers don’t have access to social media to complain about a sore arm, headache, feeling tired/fluey etc!

@Sweetnhappy1

How strange OP. I'm a GP and we have 10,000 patients registered with us. A good proportion have had their boosters and we haven't had anything like the number or severity of complications that your friends have had. What an unlucky bunch of people you know.

I know a few people who've been quite ill after the vaccines but not reported it to GPs. I've had irregular heart rhythms and I've tried to report it to my GP and I did have a conversation with a nurse and sent in BP and heart rate measurements but then couldn't get another appointment to follow it up so I gave up. It's unlikely to be on my file as vaccine-related - and it possibly isn't but it possibly is. I've had the two initial vaccinations and we've had Covid in our house twice (including probably Omicron just before Christmas) and I haven't got it so I'm not keen to get a third.