covid booster?

I’ve just been invited in the last couple of days and am getting it next week probably because I’m bipolar as well as autistic.

Just wanted to say thanks Automonistic for your advice. Although the English online booking system etc., didn't apply to us, we were finally able to speak to someone at the GP practice and the jabs were booked for next week. Partner just approached it as a fait accomplit and it worked! If it hadn't been for your post I think we'd have been sat here waiting to get a letter forever!

So thank you, very grateful x

Lucky you, I've had several vaccines and COVID itself for a week.

I chose to have neither Vaccine nor the virus.

I pulled it off by being both lucky, and unusually well informed as to how these things work, and what is the correct equipment to won and when to use it. Which is all luck, of course.

I'm not in this thread to try and make any point EXCEPT THIS:

The steps I took personally to try and avoid both virus and "vaccination" have definitely made me MUCH healthier than I was in the little  things. 

It seems, I have had a long time vitamin D deficiency, which now it's been corrected has made a very visible favourable change change to my circumstances.  

I only discovered this by doing my own research and thinking, and I'm very happy with the overall results. The process of research and thinking though is hard, and made far more complicated than it needs to be by all the liars and fantasists and mis-thinkers who populate the internet on ALL sides of any argument. 

I've recommended Vitamin D to so many people now, even given the stuff to people who obviously it could help.

Only ONE has ever come back to me and confirmed what I already know.

Information is a very funny thing, where it comes from for many people, is held to be far more important than the actual data itself.

Hi Inula, hope you feel better soon, worst of luck catching covid before you got a chance to get the latest jab, good that the symptoms have receded though. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to how it's being done this time and the rules seem quite confusing. We never had that system here, walk-in centres, or being invited to book, we just got a phone call saying come in to such 'n such venue on a given day.

I tend just to get a red patch that's a bit achy around the injection site for a few days. I'm fine with needles, but my elbow veins are a bit unreliable for providing blood for blood tests, so I tend to bruise big-time if that is needed.

I hope it goes ok for you x

A couple of weeks ago I got a message from my GP inviting me to book a covid booster.

I'm 62 so I don't qualify under the age rules and I have no other qualifying health issues as far as I'm aware. I did find a link to a gov website that said that people with learning disabilities would be offered it - and autism was mentioned as part of that - but I  manage perfectly ok and don't identify as having a learning difficulty).  I was only officially diagnosed autistic a few months back so maybe that's why I was offered the booster?

I did have my booster booked for this coming Wednesday however, I've had to cancel it - I got covid a 5 days ago. My symptoms aren't too bad. The first 2 days I felt quite poorly but now I just feel like I have a heavy cold. I'm avoiding people though as I don't want to pass it on. 

Interesting, thanks for your input good to know what's happening out there, some GP surgeries seem to be more generous than others

Flu can be very nasty especially with complications. I agree, most people should get the covid booster if they want it

I had mine a couple of weeks ago. I got a text inviting me to book it; I'm in my 30s with no big physical health problems so idk under what criteria I was eligible, but being able to be less scared of people for the next few months is an offer I'm always gonna take up. 

Only the 60+ year olds are getting it in my combined area, which I get cause a lot of elderly are vulnerable to getting sick but so are a lot of younger people. I class myself as vulnerable I have a terribly weak immune system, I had flu when I was 21 and I spent 3 months in intensive care. I feel like young and old should get this booster no matter what. 

I understand where you're coming from and I held similar opinions after watching the comedy series, "Zomboat", where a zombie apocalypse was traced back to a first zombie which was created by accident, when trials of an experimental flu vaccine went wrong.

"The groups to be offered a COVID-19 booster vaccine are:

• Residents in a care home for older adults
• All adults aged 65 years and over
• Persons aged 6 months to 64 years in a clinical risk group, as laid out in the Immunisation Green Book, COVID-19 Chapter (Green Book)
• Frontline health and social care workers
• Persons aged 12 to 64 years who are household contacts (as defined in the Green Book) of people with immunosuppression
• Persons aged 16 to 64 years who are carers (as defined in the Green Book) and staff working in care homes for older adults."

It's one in each arm if you're having the covid and flu jabs on the same day.

There is tendency, when viruses jump to a new species, for viruses to become less lethal, less debilitating, but more transmissible over time. This is what is happening to the covid virus. New strains are likely to be more transmissible, but less dangerous. The long-term memory within the immune system should give some useful protection against new variants, but probably not to the extent of preventing infection, but preventing serious symptoms.

the covid shots and boosters fell out of public trust by the 3rd or 4th one?

anyway no one trusts it after hancock sounds like he "unleashes" the new variants that way.
plus alot of fear info on new strains bigs it up but then you look at symptoms and you see the symptoms being a mild sore throat and a runny nose and your like... yeah... this is just the common cold we get anyway... why am i so bothered about this?

lack of trust in covid jabs, lack of trust in covid information, lack of severity of symptoms. lack of death count on covid and alot of the deaths were found and even leaked that they was playing the deaths up and inflating it and wrongly calling none related deaths covid deaths to scare us...  all round lack of trust in the government and the covid agenda now.

Sorry to hear that, I had flu jab couple of weeks ago and since can't clear my throat day and night, driving me nuts, same thing happened last year and it went on for months, can't risk flu though as it could finish me off. I hear you though, sounds like it has done you some kind of damage, and I know how debilitating these things are.

I am in my early 50's and IIRC, was offered the latest COVID booster in the past month or so.

However, I have declined the offer as my health went seriously downhill 1 week after the first jab.
Whilst I did have the 2nd and 3rd jabs, I cannot afford to risk my other health issues being affected further.

The issues that I have had for the past 2-3 years since the 1st jab include

• Chronic Fatigue
• Tinnitus
• Double Vision

These have had a massive impact on my life and I believe that the effects (especially the fatigue) have exposed my autism. Previously I must have been masking pretty well - I wasn't even aware of or considered that I might have autism, but now I just don't have the energy to do so.

one in each arm, you might be feeling a bit rough afterwards!