I've just come down with what I think is a flu or covid bug....but I think (and pray) it's going to be mild, touch wood <touches my head>. I've had the usual signs of coming down with 1 of them, started yesterday evening, but it kind of peaked today in the afternoon and I feel no worse instead of the steady progression I usually experience into feeling really rough. I had flu and covid vaccines in late September.
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Soldato
I did temporarily lose my sense of taste later that day and the next on my first Covid vaccine
Happy to say I feel no worse this morning, I'm pretty convinced this a flu or covid and the vaccines have made it just a very mild bout of it instead of it flooring me like in the past when I had no vaccine. Of course it's possible this is just a cold but the way it started just felt typical of flu/covid.
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I had childhood asthma (I'm 33 now). Not really a thing anymore or at least I don't notice it/or have inhalers. I still get offered the jab every year as I suppose I qualify for some reason.
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Cool. Maybe its postcode dependent. i still have an inhaler, tho its largely under control but i have to pay if i want one.. mind you the NHS is even more broken than normal around where i live!.
Just had my Covid booster (Moderna/Spikevax) as the wife is on pretty severe biological immune suppressants for her Crohns and was invited to have hers done. Bizarrely the pharmacist advised that just 'living with someone who is severely immunosuppressed' doesn't even qualify someone to get the Covid booster this year (no doubt some more government/NHS cost cutting 
) - although thankfully he was willing to classify me as my wife's 'Carer' and do me anyway.
) - although thankfully he was willing to classify me as my wife's 'Carer' and do me anyway.Strange. If that is the case I have no idea why I was told to get one (along with flu). The only thing I can think of is this one specific medication I take which can have adverse effects on white blood cell counts.Just had my Covid booster (Moderna/Spikevax) as the wife is on pretty severe biological immune suppressants for her Crohns and was invited to have hers done. Bizarrely the pharmacist advised that just 'living with someone who is severely immunosuppressed' doesn't even qualify someone to get the Covid booster this year (no doubt some more government/NHS cost cutting
Pretty sure that would be why you got the call-up. Immunosuppression is one of the key reasons apart from age to be vaccinated.
In my case I don't have any medical conditions, however I clearly don't want to pick up Covid and bring it home, as even if my wife has been vaccinated being in such close proximity to someone with a live covid infection would be bound to increase the risk of her getting it.
Commissario
When I had mine about a week ago the pharmacist was saying that even she was having to double check with her collegues about the criteria as it changes every time*. I also saw something about apparently GP's are unsure if they and their staff are eligible for it because the guidance from the government is that poor.Just had my Covid booster (Moderna/Spikevax) as the wife is on pretty severe biological immune suppressants for her Crohns and was invited to have hers done. Bizarrely the pharmacist advised that just 'living with someone who is severely immunosuppressed' doesn't even qualify someone to get the Covid booster this year (no doubt some more government/NHS cost cutting
*Since the jabs came in I've been at different times eligible under something like 3 different criteria (medical, carer, living with elderly), once I was told I wasn't eligible due to my health but the moment I mentioned I lived with an 80+ year old it was "yup we're doing you". Even the operators on 119 don't seem to have a clue at times "you're probably eligible, but the pharmacist will check" when I rang to find out.
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Why?
Felt like crap last time I got the covid one for a week, got it anyway as they did 8 people at once while I was there and I would have been the only one saying noWhy?
Apart from 2 sore arms it's fine
Soldato
Just had my Covid booster (Moderna/Spikevax) as the wife is on pretty severe biological immune suppressants for her Crohns and was invited to have hers done. Bizarrely the pharmacist advised that just 'living with someone who is severely immunosuppressed' doesn't even qualify someone to get the Covid booster this year (no doubt some more government/NHS cost cutting
Carers shouldn't get it this year either. Only 'frontline' carers qualify.
They seem to redefine who fits the criteria every year and make things more restrictive/remove people from the vulnerable group even though the takeup is ridiculously low (in the younger age groups). I would have thought they would have wanted to encourage more people to get vaccinated instead.
I think this shortsighted approach is emblematic of our politics in this country; false economy to the max.
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I thought vaccines only had a minimal impact on your likelihood of catching Covid and that mostly they prevented the worst outcomes. If that's the case paying for people to get the jab for an ineffective protection wouldn't be a good use of money. Or have I picked up the wrong message on the vaccines?
Commissario
Which is fairly daft if for example the carer is looking after someone who can't look after themselves, as the cost of having a carer out of action and needing external/paid carers (or the person being cared for going into hospital etc) is far more than the cost of giving the jabs out to them.
If the idea of the jabs is to help prevent hospitalisations/deaths and the costs associated with that, then it's nuts to have a decision that basically says it doesn't matter if a non professional carer is knocked out of action, as once that happens you suddenly need paid for carers and as I understand it there is no slack in the system for that at all, hence one of the reasons people who could go home end up sat in hospital for weeks whilst carers are sorted out.
Soldato
The jabs are roughly as effective as a flu jab in terms of preventing the catching of covid if you keep getting the latest boosters. What is good for flu is apparently not worth it for covid. The problem is flu is seasonal and covid is yearly, so you'd ideally need two boosters a year to optimum protection.
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Getting COVID every 4 or 5 months ATM as testing positive again. The kids keep bringing it home I guess lol. Thankfully not too bad, but not fun. Don't qualify for a vaccine this year, so I guess picking it up frequently is the best we have. Spotted can buy via boots now though.
Man of Honour
Seems like you are wearing the tin foil hat listening to Bob the Expert on You Tube.
Working in a hospital I'm still seeing the evidence of this horrible disease.
People like you need to grow up.
Do you say the same about other vaccines or is it the Bill Gates 5G Tracker one you have a problem with?
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Tell me about it! I was eligible for the first couple/few of years for an nhs covid jab, then I wasn't 1 year (iirc 2023 and I got a fairly nasty bout of covid that year), then this year I'm suddenly eligible again. Totally unexpected, indeed I got my covid jab done privately at boots for £98 then received an invite 3 days later for an nhs covid jab!
Might have been fate though - had I learnt I could get an nhs jab, I might not have had it for a few weeks until after my boots covid jab, meaning if this bug I have now is covid, it would have hit me with much less anti-bodies in my body due to only having the vaccine around the time of becoming unwell instead of a few weeks before. So my £98 might have been well spent.