Time To Get Your Covid 19 And 'Flu Jabs.

[Tilly2]

Don't forget.

[barry1010]

I must have had a dozen text reminders already. We are having ours in a fortnight 

[bookbinder]

Thanks for the reminder, Tilly2. Mrs. bb and I are having ours on the 15th of next month. It's all organised!

[theshedman]

Next Saturday for us.  I will have both but wife wont have covid one if it's the Pfizer as she has been so ill with the last ones of them.  Bedbound for four days at a time and still not right afterwards.

[-SharonA-]

Got mine booked for next Sunday. Just had a shingles jab & arm a little sore, so may have to be jabbed in my other arm!!

[sandyRoe]

Last time the GPs surgery sent a text reminding me.  

If they don't contact me in a couple of weeks I'll phone them about it.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Tilly2]

Booked ours using the NHS app. Very easy to do.

[jourdain2]

Had a letter from the NHS about the new cold vaccine, which I'm ignoring after the Covid problems  because cold viruses are allied to the covid thing as I remember.  The surgery has given up on asking us to have covid vaccines. I'd already asked at the surgery about 'flu vaccine, had them annually for o. 30 yrs.. I've now received a letter from the surgery reminding me!  I'll mention it again next week.

[tommy39]

i'll pass after the covid fiasco i don't tust them anymore,at 74 i'll take my chances

[Maydup]

I'm surprised (or not!) at the varying approaches by the different surgeries. Mr M had a phone call from our surgery back in August to book his for end of Oct. 
 

While other surgeries haven't even sent a text. I always assumed it was financially beneficial to them to get as many eligible people vaccinated as possible. 

[poorclare]

My appointment for Flu/Covid and Shingles on the 5/10.

Also one for Lungs injections, I don't have Lung problem, so don't understand that.

[perseverer]

poorclare,  if you are referring to RSV vaccine, had it yesterday, no ill effects to date.

See for example https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/rsv-vaccine/

[237SJ]

I had 3 covid jabs - that was enough.  Not sure if I`m too young for flu jabs but the last time I had flu was 1989 so won't be bothering with that either.

[poorclare]

Hi Perseverer, I have not

been offered this RSV before, and this would be the first and last, (not available after 79 ~ shall be 80 in a few  months).

I don't fancy so many injection alll at once.

Have had sciatica now for

several months and cannot move to much

(can still do the Crosswords 😀

Hope you have a pleasant evening.

😀

[jourdain2]

237J - the 'flu jab is the only one I bother with.  I've had genuine 'flu thrice and it's not funny.  The other year they were guessing at the strain which would be prevalent (more so than usual after covid) and I contracted 'flu.........took me 6 weeks to get over it and then some until I felt OK.  Another chap in the village caught it around Christmas  - and died.  

It's not a guarantee, but Iwould seriously consider the 'flu one.

[237SJ]

I see the criteria is aged 65 or with other conditions so I don't meet that anyway.

[Tilly2]

You are but a youngster, 237.😀

[237SJ]

I remember when I had flu.  I could hardly lift my head off the pillow.  It was far worse than when I had covid. It came on after I swam 100 lengths of a hotel swimming pool and the pains that I had with flu were in the muscles that I had used whilst swimming.  A medically trained friend told me that flu sets into the weakest points (in her mother's case it was the liver because she was an alcoholic and became jaundiced) which is why my muscles hurt.  I was young and managed to shake it off fairly quickly.

[Togo]

Our flu jabs are penciled in for next Sat or the following Sat. However I am becoming less and less likely to trust the whole vaccination "industry" after recent stats have started to emerge. Did you know that a recent study, which included healthy subjects, found a 65%  increased risk of non-flu acute respiratory illness within 14 days of receiving the flu vaccine?

https://physiciansforinformedconsent.org/flu-vaccine-facts/#:~:text=9.%20Flu%20vaccine%20mandates%20are%20not%20science-based.%20A%20Cochrane%20Vaccines

[Old_Geezer]

Au contraire. Time to ignore the nagging from the GP surgery again.

[perseverer]

Togo, I would have reservations about paying too much attention to material from an American anti-vaccination in just about every form group.