Hello to all my friends in this forum and hope your are all well or treading water. Waiting for a phone call from my GP to discuss vaccine minus 70 degrees which is being issued in my small town in Wales. Spoke to my hepatologists secretary yesterday and I quote his response. "I would recommend that julie uses the biotech vaccine rather than wait". My GP who visited last week wants the oxford one. I am worn out through worry.
Any advice from my friends would be gratefully received as I'm decomposite at present. I will take this opportunity to wish all a Christmas your happy with and a better new year than this one. Lots of hugs to you all
Julie xxx
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I will take the first one offered to me, I think that there has been a lot of press coverage that is blurring things.
For example, does anyone know in the past, who manufactures the flu vaccine that we receive? You just go along and get on with it in a normal year. I feel that the risk of catching Covid, outweigh any potential side effects of a vaccine.
Oxford are developing the specific one for people who have a compromised immune system, made using the antibodies from someone who has recovered. But that is sometime away from being approved and could also have adverse effects.
It’s definitely down to the individual choice and we all need to make our own decisions. I am reassured that your Heptologist was happy for you to go ahead.
Hi, I live in Wales and due to devolution we have different rules and regs. My GP has put an exemption for the current vaccine as I have a serious lung condition that requires oxygen, and allergies and a compromised immune system and end stage liver cirrhosis. When I spoke to hepatologists secretary he said, with out reading my full notes to have the current vaccine . So I'm holding out for the oxford one. Happy Christmas and a better new year for all of us, julie xx
Hi Jules. Do the allergies you have require treatment with an epipen? These are the only allergies which have needed treating after the covid jab and the people who have needed treating with their pens afterwards have made a full and rapid recovery. Have a good Christmas 🎄🎁
My daughter is a senior scientist at one of the pharmaceutical companies that will be making the Oxford vaccine. They also make the usual flu vaccine. She says that she would take whichever is offered first.
I really think I can't advise, as I don't know what to make of all this. TT's response is probably about right. Anyway Jules, have a great and wonderful Christmas period and all Best Wishes for 2021
Hi jules45 I was in Kings College Hospital London which is where I’m being treated awaiting the call for a new liver , when I was there I asked about the vaccine and was told that we as in people with compromised immune systems will be one of the last to be offered the vaccine purely so they can make sure that we have the least problems. So all I can say is that I’m waiting for my medical team to tell me.
Now I would like the opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a MUCH Better New Year 🥳.
Happy Christmas to you and I wont rest until you tell me you've had your new liver and you are ok. Let me know by private message, stay strong and have spring to look forward to. Love jules
Thank you jules45 that’s very nice of you, now you look after yourself and maybe the liver trust might be able to update us if ever they get told anything??.
Hi being last on the list is not quite correct if you look at the governments who gets it list people with compromised immune systems are 6th to get it, and 1 to 5 does not have high number just old people and care workers
Hi Dave, I know I mentioned it to another but Wales devolution has left the Welsh feeling very confused. My immune system is extremely compromised and am allergic to iodine, diflochemac, doxxycillin and shellfish as mussels and prawns etc contain iodine xxx j
I am a post liver transplant patient on immunosuppressants and our Liver consultants in the hospital have said that they recommend we take the Pfizer vaccine as soon as we are given the opportunity. This vaccine has been through rigorous testing and will benefit us immunosuppressed patients greatly.
We can’t take live vaccinations but if this is what their saying to me then it couldn’t be. I’m just going to trust their advice and take it when they tell me. They’ve worked so hard to save my life their not going to give me a bum steer at this stage. 😂😂. Their amazing god bless em. 👍. It’s a strange time we are all in and with so many crazy stories out there regarding these Covid vaccines, the best thing to do is trust our team, take the vaccine and get on with it. Been through enough worry and uncertainty with illness that if the people who saved my life one time already are offering to prevent me losing it again by taking a jab then I will gladly trust it.
I know that there are several members of the Auto Immune Hepatitis Facebook page who are both NHS staff and CEV (due to steroids and immune suppressants) and they have been vaccinated this week with the pfizer vaccine.
Yes, my senior district nurse has been administering that one to front line NHS workers, carers and the 2 care homes we have here. My GP is, under my terminal illness situation has advised me to hold out for the oxford vaccine and I've put my trust in her as she is a selfless GP, and for the first time my 50 years coming 51 in March I've found a lady doctor who is absolutely honest and she has found serious ailments which have been overlooked by previous doctors xxx
Hi Dogbot here I hope I haven’t given everyone the wrong impression about the vaccine as soon as I get told by my team I can have it I will be there like a shot 😂sorry bad humour.But no jok I will be first in line, take care all.
Hi jules I don't know much about the vaccine I have looked into it though what's worrying is that it's not letting you know what's in it that's putting me off from having it .each to there own of course x and merry Christmas to you and your family i hope 2021 brings you nothing but luck and happiness even though I know your suffering if anybody deserves happiness its you Take care jules X
I have same worries as you. You are kind soul. I'm going to find out thru my sources how many old folks in the 2 care homes here pass away and why as they were innoculated last week. I shouldnt be morbid as my friends here, are happy about it and some are like us, undecided. Happy Christmas and new year to you and your family
Hi, I'm post transplant, and have medication allergies, I was unsure where or not the first vaccine would be an option, as they stated anyone with food or medication allergies shouldn't have it. So at my appointment with my consultant this week, I started to ask him his advice, before I could even begin to explain, he interrupted me and said, " have it, as soon as your offered it." He explained that if I were to contract covid, it could be catestrophic. So I will definitely be taking the first one offered. Take care
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