Page 3 | I'm triple jabbed so why am I so ill?

whatisheupto · 2022-01-27T21:38:01+00:00

I know covid vaccinations don't stop you contracting the virus or passing it on. I've had Covid for a week. I'm not awfully, awfully ill. But I'm pretty ill and just when I thought I was feeling slightly on the mend, I now seem to be going into the tiredness phase where everything is exhausting. If I hadn't had the vaccines would I most likely have been much more ill? Or is it that I've caught a strain that the vaccines were never going to work against? Can't help wondering why I'm feeling so crap when I've had all 3 jabs.

massiveblob · 27/01/2022 22:33

Same here but lots of others I know not effected badly. Dread to think how bad it would have been with no vaccines

XenoBitch · 27/01/2022 22:33

@Pinkrose1111

or maybe the vaccines just don't work? Not to sound like an anti-vaxxer but I've heard so many people who've been double/tripple vax complain about how ill they are and continually testing positive yet people who haven't been vaxxed who feel fine with no symptoms or said it just felt like a cold or flu?

Yes, lots of people saying this but it gets dismissed.

Argealanlea · 27/01/2022 22:34

@Pinkrose1111

or maybe the vaccines just don't work? Not to sound like an anti-vaxxer but I've heard so many people who've been double/tripple vax complain about how ill they are and continually testing positive yet people who haven't been vaxxed who feel fine with no symptoms or said it just felt like a cold or flu?

Then how do you explain unvaccinated dominating hospitalisations? The vaccines are designed to avoid serious illness, hospitalisation and death. They are doing that.

People have different immune systems and will react in different ways whether they’re vaccinated or not. Also confirmation bias ad I said above — unvaccinated more likely to insist they’re fine even if they’re not.

@FromEden if you understand how the science works it makes sense to say that. Vaccines work by creating antibodies to covid which can then help fight off infection. If you get covid your antibodies from the vaccine will help fight it. If you still get very bad symptoms despite these antibodies fighting the virus it’s likely you would’ve been much worse without their help.

Tealightsandd · 27/01/2022 22:35

Yes anecdotes are dismissed in favour of actual data.

AliceMcK · 27/01/2022 22:39

I’m not vaccinated, DH 3 jabs. Two of our DCs and DH have had it over the last 9 days, DCs mildly sick but DH has been really bad, he’s wfh but not managed to even log on once. I’ve been absolutely fine and all tests been negative. I’ve had it twice, both before vaccines where available, I was really bad first time when it first came out, 2nd time milder. For transparency I’m immune compromised and get sick very easily, a little sniffle for my DH & children usually ends in me needing antibiotics, I’ve not had the vaccination by choice.

I don’t believe the vaccine makes any difference on how it effects you. I know lots of people who have been very sick after multiple vaccinations. My cousin has had it 3 times, fully vaccinated, he works in a prison where it’s ripe, the last time he had it he was off work for 3 weeks he was so sick and that’s after boosters.

Before anyone starts flaming me for not thinking about others or being anti vax, I happy for anyone to get the vaccine, I just believe it should be a choice. I’m also a sahm so no work colleagues to put at risk, family activities tend to be outdoors, no family close by to put at risk and I fully mask and glove up when ever I go shopping, something I fully plan on continuing.

Jedsnewstar · 27/01/2022 22:39

Doctors: the jab won’t stop you getting it but will reduce the severity
Joe dumb Public: the jab is fake I had it and I still got covid
Doctor: yeah we said that
Joe dumb public: see your admitting it, doctor admits you will still get it, told you all
Doctor: wha…. Na forget it believe what you like I’m busy saving lives
P

Thebodyshopolive · 27/01/2022 22:41

Still not vaccinated (and you can all gloat now that I'm losing my job in the NHS)

I wouldn't dream of gloating, just think it's tragic that we will lose so many good staff. Just can't believe after 11 billion doses have been administered that you're still anxious about it. Really sad for everyone and the NHS of course

HelloFrostyMorning · 27/01/2022 22:45

Lucky you DID have all 3 jabs, or you would very likely have not survived.

Gasfire · 27/01/2022 22:50

Covid version 1 was shit. Felt really crap and took ages to feel right after.

3 jabs later and covid version 3. Barely touched me or ds. Couple of days feeling ropey but usually I'd have been in work. Then fine,but housebound. Dh and dd didn't catch it.

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whatisheupto · 27/01/2022 22:50

@TheGonnagle Yay for science indeed. So glad you were 'ok' this time round. Must be so scary.

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PurpleDaisies · 27/01/2022 22:50

@HelloFrostyMorning

Lucky you DID have all 3 jabs, or you would very likely have not survived.

What a load of nonsense. Most people don’t die of Covid. That’s not to say that the vaccines aren’t needed. There’s no need for this hyperbole to make the case for them.

Chipstick10 · 27/01/2022 22:50

I am unvaccinated. I have natural immunity. Every single person without exception that has caught Covid again has been double or triple jabbed. Connection? Yes

PurpleDaisies · 27/01/2022 22:51

@Chipstick10

I am unvaccinated. I have natural immunity. Every single person without exception that has caught Covid again has been double or triple jabbed. Connection? Yes

Yes, it’s almost as if the majority of people are vaccinated now.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 27/01/2022 22:53

@PurpleDaisies

I have seen so much anecdotal evidence that vaccinated people are suffering more with Omicron than unvaccinated.

Unvaccinated people are more likely to tell you they felt fine with covid. Vaccinated people are more likely to be surprised when they don’t.

Look at the proportions of people who have needed to go to hospital. It’s pretty obvious the vaccines are working.

An unvaccinated friend said he'd never felt so bad when he got Covid last year. He's still not vaccinated though🤷‍♀️

Cronehands · 27/01/2022 22:55

@Chipstick10

I am unvaccinated. I have natural immunity. Every single person without exception that has caught Covid again has been double or triple jabbed. Connection? Yes

Every single person? That's quite a claim.

But again, you know that being vaccinated doesn't stop you catching it, right? Although in my house, it appears that not being me or ds gives you immunity to omicron. Even if I cook your tea or brush your hair.

MNHQ

LivMumsnet · 27/01/2022 22:56

Evening all - we've moved this to the Covid topic. Hope you feel better soon, OP.

Tealightsandd · 27/01/2022 22:58

@Thebodyshopolive

Still not vaccinated (and you can all gloat now that I'm losing my job in the NHS)

I wouldn't dream of gloating, just think it's tragic that we will lose so many good staff. Just can't believe after 11 billion doses have been administered that you're still anxious about it. Really sad for everyone and the NHS of course

I question the appropriateness of working in a science and medicine based environment - when not trusting science and medicine

Plus of course the lack of concern for vulnerable patients (including their psychological wellbeing).

Hospitals and HCP have a duty of care. That includes taking the science and medicine based precautions to mitigate risks. Including vaccines.

Curiousmouse · 27/01/2022 23:01

@XenoBitch

A lot of people with Covid say they could have been more poorly if they had not been jabbed... but they don't know. I have seen so much anecdotal evidence that vaccinated people are suffering more with Omicron than unvaccinated.

Utter cobblers and the opposite is known and evidenced to be true.

KurtWilde · 27/01/2022 23:04

@HelloFrostyMorning

Lucky you DID have all 3 jabs, or you would very likely have not survived.

Oh stop with this. I had original covid this time last year, I didn't feel great obviously, but I've had far worse illnesses over the years! Even my great aunt in her 80s couldn't understand what all the fuss was about, said she'd had worse hayfever! But then she survived polio which really WAS a serious illness for ANY age group. And the country didn't grind to a halt for that.

OP I hope you feel better soon.

justasking111 · 27/01/2022 23:06

Two years since I've had a cold grandson brought one home from nursery. We were all floored by it.

I think our general immunity is shot to hell

theusuall · 27/01/2022 23:10

Yes anecdotes are dismissed in favour of actual data.

But the data (I'm in Scotland) shows that vaxed are catching and being hospitalised more per 1000 people than unvaxed? Since Omicron became dominant strain the figures have turned on their head. It's right there in the latest PHS report.

So it's anecdotal but it's also being reflected in the data.....

Katya213 · 27/01/2022 23:10

I’m on day 3, I’ve been quite unwell with it, feeling freezing, then boiling and the aches and pains but it is in NOWHERE near like the flu I caught three years ago, that was beyond anything I could describe, I must have lost a week of my life with delirium. The pain of flu was on another level.

Porcupineintherough · 27/01/2022 23:11

@KurtWilde how nice for you. I had COVID in March 2020 and it was the sickest I've ever been by far. Worse than flu, worse than amoebic dysentery, worse than malaria, worse than typhoid, and none of those was a walk in the park. Do you think all those that have died or been hospitalized were just faking?

DoreenWinkings · 27/01/2022 23:12

Then how do you explain unvaccinated dominating hospitalisations? The vaccines are designed to avoid serious illness, hospitalisation and death. They are doing that.

Honestly, I am mostly interested in the other demographics of the people being hospitlised. Are the unvaccinated people in hospital young and healthy? Or are they elderly and/or with other comorbidities? Are they overweight? Do they have compromised immune systems etc etc

I'm interested in whether the vaccines protects against hospitalisation/death across all demographics. Or whether it is mostly protecting those who would be susceptible to Covid anyway.

I am fully vaccinated and boosted myself (I have never had Covid as far as I know either before or after vaccination despite family members and colleagues having it) but I do like to know the full facts of things. So being told that most people being hospitlised are unvaccinated doesn't mean that much to me - for all I know 75% of those people might be unable to even have the vaccine... in which case their vaccine status is irrelevant.

theusuall · 27/01/2022 23:12

The vaccines are designed to avoid serious illness, hospitalisation and death. They are doing that.

Also this is nonsense, to the point of gaslighting. They were not designed for that - and if they were, they certainly were not sold as that.