To minimise my risk of reacting to Covid vaccine how many days after a heavy cold should I wait?

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I'm about to have my 4th vaccine - I've reacted to two badly (several weeks ill health and strange symptoms) and one scarcely at all.

So I want to be super cautious with this - I'm early 60s and have ME

Heavy heavy cold today... how many "recovered" days would you wait before having it? AT the mo it is scheduled for Monday but thinking I might postpone a bit....What do you think?

If you don’t have a fever on the day, so you’ve not needed any painkillers and you have a normal temperature, I’d get it on Monday as the longer you leave it the more opportunity you have to catch covid.

A cold shouldn't increase any side effects.

The reason they advise waiting if you have a fever is the vaccine could be less effective if your immune system is already fighting something else.

I'd go for it and not delay

Two good answers above. I suggest you make your decision based entirely on how your ME is at the moment, rather than hoping you can somehow avoid side effects from the jab. If the cold has put you in the red zone, so to speak, and you are quite poorly with your ME, it might be better to wait. If the cold hasn't made your underlying ME any worse then go ahead with the jab.

Are you sure you definitely have cold and not covid? Recently a few people didn’t test positive initially but had covid.

If it is covid I think you have to wait 28 or 31 days.

thanks all for good advice... it's not covid, I did test wondering.