Covid Vaccine Concern

[AndrewCat]

Hi,I had Covid last year,I felt unwell,but not critically ill,a bit like bad cold/flu. I’ve now booked my first Covid vac appointment in a fortnights time,but am starting to wonder-There seems to be news reports saying that people who previously had Covid tend to have more severe side effects when they do have the vaccine.Has anybody had Covid and gone on to have the vaccine? Interested to hear anybody’s experiences

[cashier]

65 and over Tiggs.

[rowanwitch]

And I have had shedloads of other jabs, far stronger reaction to hep b boosters.

[tiggerblue10]

Thanks....will suggest to my parents to get it. They've both had their covid jabs.

[calmck]

Pneumonia vaccine has been available for a good while

[tiggerblue10]

I had a bcg when at school. What is the round one that you have on your wrist? I remember having that at school as well to see if little bumps came up.

[tiggerblue10]

Also had a few before I travelled to Kenya and Dom Rep.

[AuntPollyGrey]

You can get a pneumonia vaccination under 65 if you are clinically vulnerable. It's a one off, not yearly.

[emmie]

tigger allergy tests usually do that...

[TonyV]

I got one earlier this year as did Jen

[AuntPollyGrey]

Tigger, that was the test for Tuberculosis. If the site reacted, then you had been exposed to Tuberculosis and could not receive the jab in the top of your arm that most children had aged 10-11.

[tiggerblue10]

I must've reacted then as the bumps came up.

[Peter Pedant]

// -There seems to be news reports saying that people who previously had Covid tend to have more severe side effects when they do have the vaccine.//

to echo Naomi - where dat den? - do you have a ref and then we can all read it

[Peter Pedant]

fellow outside stopped and asked me just THAT

how many people do you know have died from the vacc?
why none he said - I heard they never tested it before they used it he added

"I will take answer no 1 : and how many people have died here from Covid ? " I replied

and he said - that is irrelevant: I think I will ask a biochemist

and I said - oh normal day in n manchester then

[AuntPollyGrey]

Does it not stand to reason medically, that if you have had Covid previously, and produced anti-bodies, then your response to the vaccine will be stronger?

[Sqad]

APG......interesting question, but answer is..........unknown.
One reason being that we are not quite sure how long the antibodies from a previous infection, last.

[Zacs-Master]

He’s, that’s correct.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, that’s correct.

[Peter Pedant]

a street sweeper writes

yes we find this is biochemistry:
anamnestic response the rapid reappearance of antibody in the blood following introduction of an antigen to which the subject had previously developed a primary immune response.

actually I am pretty sure that Pasteur and Koch were aware of it
( chorus of who dey den? etc)

Trump was advised to have the vacc as the Rx is greater after the vacc than the disease ( as measured in the lab of course). In fection may NOT give immunity - tetanus is the usual example

[Peter Pedant]

hmm three denials of anamestic response....
ho hum, normal day on AB then

[woofgang]

yup. I am fairly sure I had German Measles as a child but when tested as an adult, no antibodies so I had the vac. One year later blood test, no antibodies so I had the vac. One year later blood test, no antibodies so the doc (metaphorically) threw up his hands and said go away