Anyone thinking about skipping the latest booster?

[WoolyMammoth55]

I've had 3 jabs in total so far, and the last one made me REALLY poorly - couldn't get out of bed for a few days, crazy fever, hallucinating.

They didn't stop me getting Covid, which I've had 2 positive tests for since the first jab, and which was mild compared to how bad I was after the last booster!

I've been invited for the next booster and just can't see why I'd get it. I've had 3 jabs already so must have some protection, right? And since I keep getting it despite the jabs, I'm fairly likely to get it again in the next 6 months whether I do or don't get jabbed?

I can't see the upside.

I'm studying hard for a career change and have 2 little kids. If I had a reaction like last time I'd really struggle to keep all the balls in the air...

I'm being offered the booster because of my high BMI but don't have any co-morbidities, blood pressure good, not pre-diabetic, generally well.

Curious to know what others are thinking?

I had my covid booster and my flu jab yesterday.

My niece and brother in law recently had covid for the second time and they were absolutely floored by it this time so I thought I'd better get the shot.

The flu jab site has come up like a bloody egg and hurts like hell but not had a reaction to the covid one.

I’ll be taking it if offered.

Haven't had any - neither has the family inc my mum (82)! We've all travelled, been in airports and on planes etc. Had it once and it was only a headache for four days. Fine by the fifth day.

Would love to see the evidence for the repetitive chorus if I hadn't had the jabs, I would have been much worse! The only illness I am seeing is clots, heart attacks, strokes and myocarditis.

If you'd switched off the media for the past 4 years, would you have seen all the people dropping dead with flu all round you?

Me neither.

Like I said haven't and won't be having any of that stuff, even the Aussies have woken up.

www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/scientists-shocked-and-alarmed-at-whats-in-the-mrna-shots/

Oh here we go... 🙄

The fact you had it mildly means nothing. When they checked my blood they told me I'd had it before, I had it so mildly I didn't even know I had it, didn't suspect for one minute. Then I got it badly, doctor wanted to admit me to hospital but I wouldn't go. I was very very ill for 4 weeks, ill for another 4 weeks and have had long covid for 18 months.

Who knows how you will be if you get it again. It is your choice but don't assume because you had it mildly once you will always only get it mildly.

Biden put a lot of people off, with his lies.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/biden-said-if-you-get-vaccinated-you-wont-get-covid

The question is - how many vaccines have you had?

Me neither! I work in an occupation where....let's say....I have to question a lot of things.....and I have a lot of questions!

Are you Bradley Walsh?

My friend just had the flu and covid one. She said she's had the worse reaction out of them all. Actually in bed she feels so bad. I'm giving it a miss. I, ll cancel it online.

Exactly. My firend had it mildly first time. Then the second time she was really ill, still has long covid and has lost her job because of it.

It will be my 7th dose.
I had covid in 2021 and was very ill in hospital. Again in 2022 after 4 or 5 doses(I forget) and it was very mild.
However my last booster in June floored me. I never had any reaction before and this gave me horrific palpitations, nightmares, fever, aches. So I'm not looking forward to the next one at all.
None of those symptoms were as bad as having covid that first time, that was Delta and it seems like all the subsequent strains have been milder.

Looking at the Twitter accounts of those involved in that piece does not fill me with confidence at all.

Agreed. Conspiracy theory stuff. People were always going to crawl out of the woodwork.

Refuse the vaccine if you want but keep crap like that to yourself.

"Looking at the Twitter accounts of those involved in that piece does not fill me with confidence at all"

Like this guy, at the UK spectator and daily fail ?

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10294225/Its-time-punish-Britains-five-million-vaccine-refuseniks-says-ANDREW-NEIL.html

I had my flu jab 2 weeks ago and was all ready to book covid.

I'm both vulnerable (CFS and had 3 months worth of covid sickness last time I caught it) and a carer.

DS brought Covid home from school before I could book the jab. Am now on day 11 of being poorly.

For the person up thread who said people can't prove they would have been worse without it. You can't calculate preventative measures, but I would not like to take the risk of having no jabs. Healthy young people dropped dead of Covid in 2020. Long Covid has become a silent epidemic, and the jab seems to offer some protection.

One of my parents died very young (36) of the flu/complications. I suspect if he had had a jab we might have enjoyed many more decades of his company. It would have changed all of our lives.

WRT the OP, it is tricky when you have had severe side effects. Honestly don't know what I'd do in your circs, but for me generally the jabs are a useful precaution against potential severe/long term health issues.

No. I had a suspected stroke with my first AZ. Maybe it was nothing, maybe it had nothing to do with the vaccine but I had five days in hospital feeling extremely unwell and scared. I had the 2nd one feeling shit scared. Then I found out it didn't last. I dutifully had my 3rd Pfizer too. But I have had covid pre and post vaccines. I doesn't make me ill. I have spread covid post vaccine.

It's fine saying clots are vanishingly rare or hyperbole. But if your that one in x million, that vanishing stat matters to you.

I still think it's safe. It's just mot for me this time. Covid vaccines are wonderful. It's not them, it's me. I'm in a unique situation which is not relatable to 999,999,999 of other people or what ever that stats are. But I have given myself permission to put myself first on this one.

I am not sure what you are trying to prove? Andrew Neil is something of an arse and the Mail is a rag and that article is nearly two years old and things have moved on a lot. It doesn't change the fact that the current twitter accounts I mentioned do not exactly, shall we say, present a professional attitude.

My and DH both had it last week with no reaction apart from a sore arm. We both got more side effects from the flu jab. I know lots of people who've had no reaction.

Following my last Covid booster, the very next day my shoulder on that arm was really painful, I could hardly move my arm. It wasn't the usual 'achy' arm, which usually follows the jab, it was the actual shoulder.
Several weeks later, it was still the same, plus I'd lost full range of movement In that arm by then. I Googled what had happened to see if I could get any pointers. I came across the term 'SIRVA' , which I have never heard of. This stands for 'Shoulder Injury (as) Result (of) Vaccine Administration. I was gobsmacked! It is an actual thing (people can get it from the flu jab as well).
Anyway, a few months later, it was still no better. I mentioned it to my physiotherapist whist seeing her for a different issue, and she said she had seen one person before with SIRVA. She gave me some exercises and after a few weeks I did see some improvement. It is still not 100%, almost a year after my jab.
A bit of a long-winded answer, but people aren't made aware of all the stuff that can happen after a jab. I won't be queueing up to get another!

Here are the Twitter accounts if anyone is interested.

https://twitter.com/dystopian_DU/status/1706089228374057287

https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan

In my 30s. Still having palpitations a year and a half after my booster, which gave me a heart rate of around 100 for a week. Also messed up my previously regular menstrual cycle, which has remained a couple of days shorter since. Have always happily had every jab going, not having another covid jab. I also have some long covid symptoms, with lung and back problems, but I’d take more years of those over my previously normally functioning heart getting any worse.

I don't know when I had the first bout of covid and I'd had one when I had covid the second time. My first jab was the Astra Zeneca which I've read is less effective than some of the others. I've since had Moderna. My DH who is mid 70s and vulnerable had 3 jabs by the time I caught covid, we were sleeping together before I knew I had it and when I was first ill but he didn't catch it.

I've had 3 jabs now, soon to get the 4th. Nursed GS when he had covid and I didn't catch it, neither did DH. I think the vaccine protected us.

HCPs do not report side effects on behalf on patients.

Instead they encourage patients to fill out a yellow card report, which is also detailed in the leaflet given out at appointment.

You can retrospectively report now, there is nothing stopping you.
https://coronavirus-yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/