I’m wondering is it worthwhile getting a booster jab this autumn. I understand covid is still around and my understanding is it’s now milder then previous strains.
I have mild asthma(do take a preventer daily), I am 51 and am sitting on the fence on booster number 5.
Any thoughts, experiences, those who have had covid already.
Hi,
I can't think of any reason not to have it. Especially if we are vulnerable in any way. It not only stops us from getting it, but will help others even more vunerable than us.
If we don't get covid, then we can't pass it on to them...
Hope this helps...
Mgt
Can you get the booster if you’re not in a very vulnerable category?
I also have asthma and am under 50 but I have just received my letter. I too only have mild asthma and take a preventer inhaler.Hopefully that means you will get letter soon too.
It is your choice at the end of the day but I will be going for mine.
It depends on the local health authority - some dish out boosters like sweeties to anyone who has had any asthma at all, however mild or long ago. Others stick to the government guidelines which only provide vaccines for those who are extremely vulnerable.
Just had mine a few days ago but my parents still trying to book theirs. They are in a different area so I think it does play a big part. My dad was in the vulnerable classification but hasn't be offered his any sooner. Hope everyone manages to get one if wanted.
Some people tend to experience this- as other types of covid- very mildly while others are unpleasantly ill. If you have the opportunity of a vaccination, not everyone will, I would suggest you take it.
I had all my boosters, in fact I had just had one 2.5 weeks before I caught COVID at the end of last year. I had not been taking any preventer at that point as I hadn't needed it but boy did COVID mess with my asthma even though it didn't seem to go to my chest like a proper chest cold or infection would and even though it was the mild strain people were getting at the time. I then spent the next 6 months or so trying to get my asthma under control with the help of my doctors and asthma nurse and I didn't get rid of the COVID cough for about that length of time too. As soon as I came down with the illness that turned out to be COVID I had started taking 2 puffs of CLENIL twice a day on a just in case basis, but that wasn't sufficient and by three months in I was advised to go up to 3 puffs twice a day and then 4 puffs twice a day for a short while to see if that would clear it. Eventually it started to stabilise around 6 months in after being put on Fostair. Due to side effects from Fostair, I am having to change inhalers again and Clenil is not working so well so will be starting on Symbicort shortly. What a palaver and all from getting COVID. I dread to think what it would have been like if I had got one of the earlier strains that affected people's breathing and went to their chest! I will definitely be getting the jab if it is offered to me this autumn as it was probably only so mild for me because I had just had a jab. I would also say, don't underestimate how badly it can affect you as an asthmatic even if you have mild asthma. I have never used my reliever inhaler so much!
My asthma was a 'leaving present' from my first bout of Covid at the beginning of the pandemic. A second bout just over two years later made the asthma flare up again and it took months to calm back down. So I'm definitely in 'Team Do all you can to prevent it'!
I would definitely have it I have had Covid twice and and I was very poorly both times with asthma despite having all my jabs and I dread to think how I would have been without having them
All the best
I haven't had it - yet, I'm sure I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I do though for covid hasn't gone away. I had a text from my gp surgery saying that covid booster and flu jab are to be given as before at our local pristine fire station. I'm very relieved and will most certainly have both as usual. We can't know how covid will affect us (if we haven't already had it) and I'm not prepared to take the risk at 70 & having moderate asthma with propensity to infections, Small Airways Disease and CFS. I had a horrendous infection from a catching bugs at Christmas, 3 weeks in bed (unable to get through to gp) and six months recovering . My asthma has definitely taken a downturn since. (No, it wasn't covid).
I'm hoping surgery will let me know when/ if I need Covid & flu shots, they normally do. 🤔I would def. have them as had gastric flu recently and don't want to be more ill than I already am. My asthma is pretty good atm though was a bit worse when pollen high so don't want to set that back. Mind you waited six months for blood test before I cancelled it as obviously not coming, so they are a 'little' behind! 🙄
Believe me, after being hospitalised for eleven days with Covid plus pneumonia and an unidentified bacterial infection I’m going to be the first in line. I now have Long Covid which brings its own problems. I am better than I was but after three months I’m just longing to feel back to normal! If I hadn’t already had four jabs, would I still be here? We don’t know for sure, but I certainly don’t want to run the risk of getting Covid again!
I will definitely have it if offered I have moderate asthma but was told last winter I would be vaccinated in my age group as over 50 but not 65 which has obviously changed this year.
I don’t know why they couldn’t have made the criteria this time the same as people that were advised to get a flu jab before the pandemic.
I have Bronchiectasis and I am immuno compromised, I would definitely have it, it will be my 8th. I caught Covid on coronation weekend, they told me as mild as it is it would have been life threatening for me without the vaccine. As it was I had to have anti viral infusion and ended up on a nebulizer due to ling infection.
I have not had covid and do not intend getting it, I have had 7 jabs and looking to have the autumn one too, if everybody declined then covid will be rife again x
I’ve just had this strain of Covid. It was worse than when I had it last time. It went straight to my chest this time. Asthma aside it was about 3 days of uncontrollable fevers and rigors. Generally just very unwell. Headaches and migraines. I took the paxlovid trial because I was so unwell and just miss the cut off for it under the nhs requirements for asthma. I would just take the vaccine. If I was being offered it I would be taking it
Hi,
I would definitely recommend that you have the vaccine.
I had 3 Astra Zeneca vaccinations (initial, booster and a 3rd primary), luckily with no side effects or any of the very nasty conditions that some so sadly developed. My last was March 2022 and despite being in the vulnerable category with numerous conditions including Asthma, I haven't received any boosters.
I have a suspected Pyethelene Glycol allergy and unable to receive either Moderna or Pfizer and there has been nowhere to obtain any alternative, with everyone signalling me somewhere else.
After 3 and 1/2 years of managing to avoid Covid, I succumbed to my first bout 8 days ago....all from a 10 min chat and brief hug from a visiting relative.
I didn't think that I could feel like this, going from well to unable to walk for the pains, all in 24hrs. Thankfully I've received Antivirals, and I'm hoping they do the trick but must admit, they are very unpleasant to take with the side effects and am struggling to keep them down.
Apologies for hijacking your post. I just wanted let you know that I also felt as time was going on that I would just stop searching out the vaccine as things were getting better, I was wrong. If the jab can reduce these symptoms in any way then it's got to be worth it
Julie x
To be honest I would get it. I have just been diagnosed with an immune problem so I will have to get it.
I’m having mine as I’m not a gambler - flu or , covid , both can cause chest infections- not taking the risk
Along with asthma I’m immune compromised so was delighted when the vaccine came out. But I had a very bad reaction to the 3rd jab & didn’t get the fourth, with the support of my doctors. I’ve just had the new covid strain & it gave me cold chills & night sweats but oddly no respiratory symptoms. I was over it in 3 days. My elderly neighbour just had it & she had no symptoms except a slight cold. We are clearly reacting differently strain - I’ve had covid three times this was the mildest.
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