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RSV jab
😂😂😂😂. You must be mad 🙃
Was in the surgery this morning and meant to ask about it - there are adverts up everywhere but not heard about either tat or the flu jab or Covid booster. Forgot to ask - firstly, because i am old and forgetful and secondly because, yet again they hadn't done my repeat prescription correctly so need to phone them Monday or Wednesday for GP review - it won't be Monday as have an appointment with the bank so will have to wait until Wednesday - I saw the GP last Tuesday so why the heck he didn't say it was time for a review then I don't know.
I am surprised your surgery doesn’t contact automatically as mine does and so l don’t have to go chasing. They send a message to my phone to book for whatever is needed. I thought the admin. did that in a practice? What with not being able to get an appointment to see your GP and all this on top, it beggars belief. Take care.
They may very well send out a message or put it on their fb page but I was just going to ask about it and when they were intending to start giving them. Usually for flu and Covid they have a couple of Friday afternoons when they take over the community hall and we are told to just pitch up between 2 and 5 for our vaccinations. I was wondering if they would do the RSV the same way or if we had to ask for it. I shall ask when I see the GP about my medication review next week.
I am sure it will all fall into place and plenty of time left yet. I suppose it varies from one practice to another with deliveries etc.
I got a text about he flu jab just yesterday
No mention of RSV but we will be offered covid jab with flu if our appt Saturday or Thurs. As we have celebrations the next day think we'll save covid for a bit later.
They are only giving it to 75 -79 year olds and pregnant persons!
And those most of risk, ie: immune compromised.
I’m 74 and have been offered both, as in previous years!
My granddaughter is 7 months pregnant and she has been offered it as well.
So I've missed out being over 80 now?
Yes . Only babies, pregnant women and 75-79 YO.
I did ask the chap who gave me my jab what would have happened if I was six months older. Brutal answer, you die! lol 😁 There seems no rhyme or reason, just an arbitrary cut off date of 80 at present. Having had the jab I do wonder if my sense of humour may have been damaged.
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Love the laughs so in my case I'm well past it!!😜😜
This will probably be the last time I can ever say this, but at 73 I'm too young! 😇😁
Same age as me.!! I looked to see if you can pay privately for one, but don’t think you can get that yet.
I don't want one, too new for me to accept at the moment.
When you’re 75 and eligible , it’ll have been around for 2 years.!
At this point in time after all the studies covid vax is no longer considered "new".
We're talking about the new RSV vaccine.
73 too . Bowel cancer test also finishes I think at 74. Why? That’s when you are most likely to be positive. Would be a waste of money for them as we are too old
Similar for shingles jab, I think that is 70-79 yrs.
It’s over 65’s. I had mine several years ago.
I think this government are hoping to kill us over 80’s off, what with no fuel allowance and no RSV jab!!
Why aren’t they giving it to over 80’s. ?That doesn’t seem right.
you might last longer without the jab? wishing you well
Well that’s curtains for me then!
Yep me too!!
What is RSV please? No sure if I'd want it with this effect lol!
Respiratory syncytial virus. Very common, but particularly infants and fragility in older people can cause serious complications. It’s not like COVID and it’s been around forever so we all have been exposed to it throughout our lives but for some reason, now they have a vaccine, everyone in the certain categories should get one. I’m not taking any of the vaccines this year as for the first time in about 5 years I am starting to feel well.
I stopped having flu vaccines in 2012 after getting flu (or a very nasty FLI) in Feb after having been vaccinated in Oct 2011. I read that the flu vaccine had been so poor that year that by Feb it was down to negative efficacy. I had been vaccinated every year since 1999. I always felt off form in winter some winters worse than others. In the winter of 2010-11 I felt particularly ill most of the time with chest pain ,low blood sugar problems ,headaches , weakness and sometimes dizziness. My GP sent me to the cardiolgist for the first time. I later learned that they put the H1N1 strain into the seasonal vaccine that year. Since rejecting flu vaccines I now feel much better in winter! I have no intention of getting any more vaccines.
Husband and I received texts from surgery yesterday to book flu vaccinations so going Saturday 5th. Is this the same as the RSV jab?
No it's to protect against respiratory synctial virus. This can lead to pneumonia in vulnerable individuals.If you're aged 75 to 79, the RSV vaccine is not usually given at the same appointment as your flu or COVID-19 vaccines, but you can have them at the same time if a doctor or nurse thinks it's needed.
You can have it at the same time as other vaccines, such as the shingles and pneumococcal vaccines.
If you're 80 after 1st Sep 24 you can have it in next year (they're playing catch up but not if 80 before then!)
I am way over the cut off point and haven't a clue what the RSV jab is for can someone enlighten me please. I missed my flu jab invitation because of illness and now the surgery says there is no new appointments available and I will have to go to the Pharmacy in October for one.
Not sure if this is the reason..... but in the last few years, three of my age group [under 75] were hospitalised and temporarily on oxygen with viruses [including one with covid.]. Seemed unusual in each case. Guess it could complicate covid? And to be honest, the poor health service has enough on its plate...
I had my RSV vaccination last Tuesday. No side effects at all, not even a sore arm. I was invited by my surgery.
My friend told me he was having the RSV vax last week so I asked what it was. He said it was something on the lines of the pneumonia jab but called Respiratory SPHINCTER virus vaccine.I did wonder what the heck the sphincter had to do with respiratory issues, but then I thought you may not want to cough or sneeze with a dodgy sphincter. 😁
I'll tell him it's SYNCYTIAL before he frightens his older mates 😄.
That made me laugh Ducky.
I thought it was odd when he said it. Didn't question it as didn't want to appear anal. Of course he's now the butt of my jokes, which is a bit of a bummer for him............ I'll stop now 😄.He'll be mortified when I tell him. 😁
Why in gods name are people still trusting any jabs being advertised after what we went through? Go on admin, delete my post.
"We"? "Any jabs"? Does this extend to MMR, typhoid, polio as well, as far as you're concerned?
After what happened I started questioning EVERY vaccine ever made and administrated.
Good for you, but being deliberately antagonistic towards the admins does not do you any favours, when all they are doing is their job.
What's their job? Censoring 'fake news'?
Give it a rest. This is a forum for helping people with AF, not for you to promote your own agenda. If you could be as evangelical about that, then that would be super.👌
Ducky2003, did it ever occur to you that AF can also be triggered by vaccines? So yes it is relevant! What is my agenda exactly Ducky? To warn people what can trigger off AF? Maybe trigger off something worst? How's that my agenda? If there is any agenda happening here it is you promoting vaccines, do you work for big Pharma? I get nothing out of saying to members just to be careful. And you have to be careful with everything, don't assume everyone has your best interest, especially big Pharma trying to sell their products.
I say "agenda" as there seems to be a common thread running through your responses to people on the forum. And, just how, exactly, was I promoting vaccines? Really interested for you to quote where I have done that. I don't have the Covid vaccinations myself so any suggestion that I promote them is sheer nonsense.......... look back at any of my posts if you want.
And the comment about me working for "big pharma" is ridiculous and makes you sound paranoid.
If I you must know, I'm a self employed foot heath professional so hardly CEO of Pfizer. 🙄.
And, not that I need to explain myself to you, but I don't actually have the Covid jabs myself so have no interest in promoting them
My point was about deliberately saying something, knowing you were baiting the admins. The subject is irrelevant. If ham sandwiches were an emotive subject, then I would be saying exactly the same thing to you.
I had mine on Thursday. Absolutely no problems not even a sore arm
Nothing for me either. Sorry if people don't understand irony as it was a bit of a wind up. Must be the lions mane powder I recently started with making me impish and naughty..
That stuff is supposed to work miracles. How do you feel on it?
Oooooh Bob!!
I am just getting ready to go and have mine. 🙏🙏🙏
As I havd never heard of the RSV vaccine, I googled the situation in South Africa where I live, and most of the emphasis and statements by professors etc.appears to be that children under 5 are most likely to be severely affected by the virus, no mention of the oldies. I'll ask my GP when I see her next !
Yes it can be life threatening for the very young.
But there dosent seem to be a vaccine for them directly. Pregnant ladies are encouraged to have the vaccine and thus give some protection to the babies after birth.
I had mine 2 weeks ago and no reaction at all not even a sore arm.
Good Morning .. had my RSV & Covid-19 jabs ..2 days ago .. A-OK here
Just reviewed Canada guidelines.RSV appears to be for under 6 and over 75.
A new Covid booster, combined with a flu shot, is to be available in October.
I was notified by text about RSV vaccination as well as flu and covid vaccinations. I had the RSV one on Thursday and the other two are booked in October. The only effect I had after the RSV one was a slight headache for two days, which I may have had anyway and the nurse told me I may be off colour for a day or two. She said the RSV one lasts over two years and at the moment it's just a one off vaccine. Older people have lowered immunity, can spread it, especially to infant relatives, who are especially vulnerable too and can become very ill themselves so it will hopefully help lower hospital admissions and help the NHS.
i was invited to have rsv , im 66 and going on monday .
RSV has been around for decades and those of us who are old will have been exposed to it umpteen times giving us natural immunity. Many years ago there were attempts to make an RSV vaccine which were singularly unsuccessful resulting in those who got the vaccine actually doing worse when infected and some toddlers died. I strongly suspect that pushing it for old people is just a way to get more sales for the new vaccine.
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