Covid booster

[liteglimmer]

Hi,

Has anyone received the new Covid booster for the fall of 2024? Did anyone experience any side effects from it? I want to get the booster but am worried about side effects.

Thanks,

Brett

[tunas]

Don't take the Covid booster anyone. A safe and effective vaccine is only allowed after around 10 years, Covid vaccines were produced in record emergency time of less than 6 months. So no I will not take a experimental drug!!

[June08 in reply to tunas]

Many people had very few side effects, but on the other hand, many people reported having hemorrhaging. One person had an eye hemorrhage just after taking the vaccine. The other had a brain bleed that has left him disabled permanently. Another person reported having swelling in her lymph nodes

My husband worked for a major pharmaceutical company and advised that not enough research had been done to determine whether or not it was safe. But, now it's a choice. A few years ago, it was mandatory for first responders - even if they weren't working.

One was on worker's comp waiting for his paperwork to be completed and approved. He was forced to take many vaccines or his worker's compensation would be jeopardized. He was a lieutenant on the local fire department and is now permanently disabled from working in the position he once held

For those who didn't suffer side effects such as memory loss, you're very fortunate. I'm now caring for a family member who has been affected. He never got sick, but his memory is like Swiss cheese. I've been doing an independent study on this. Even the younger generation has reported memory loss issues.

Stay well!

[Painting-girl in reply to June08]

I think the experience in the USA was slightly different to that in Europe June 08.

Though in the US alone circa 270 million people have had at least one dose of the covid vaccine - about 79% of your population.

Over a million people died of Covid in the USA making it the deadliest disaster in the history of your country (Source Wikipedia)

Reassuringly there was a study of 99 million vaccinated people published in the BMJ in February this year - the researchers noted that no increased risk of a couple of cardiac complications were observed when the MRNA vaccines were used.

[June08 in reply to Painting-girl]

Definitely!

[Stubble]

My daughter had it on the first day - flew to New York the day after and got back yesterday. No side effects.

But, we are all different so I wouldn't make a decision based on a sample of 1.

[Pairofboots]

Had mine, no adverse side effects

[lcd8]

I already had it last week. I was a little concerned about side effects as I have experienced them before. But I didn't get any. Even though Covid may not be the killer it once was it still isn't nice.

[Stubble in reply to lcd8]

Long Covid is still a high risk after even a mild infection though so anything that reduces risk is a good thing

[Trevor78]

I had 2 Astra Zeneca shots at the start of Covid but have never had an mRNA product & don't intend to. I know plenty of people who've had all of the available Covid jabs and outwardly they haven't had any short term issues.

[Sifu]

had mine again no side affects whatsoever

[Painting-girl]

Hi LG, I had the Covid and flu jabs two weeks ago and it was fine. Have had them at the same time for the last two vaccination rounds as well. In fact I had them in separate arms this time ( recommended!) so was interested to see that the flu jab made my arm redder and more sore than the Covid jab did the other arm. Had achey arms for a few days but the whole thing was not as bad as I remember the usual travel vaccinations when I went to India a few years back. This time I had the latest Moderna one for the latest Omicron variant. The only Covid vaccine I felt truly rough with was the first Astra Zeneca one, all the Pfizer shots since were fine.

Having finally caught Covid last summer (when the NHS didn't roll out boosters for my age group that Spring) and got really unwell with long lasting effects with actual Covid - which felt like my MTBI recovery was pushed back eighteen months - I'm going to have any boosters offered (plus my 88 year old mother is vulnerable and I don't want to take anything into her). My un-boosted experience of Covid definitely had a neurological impact on me, and I don't want to have that again if I can help it. Plus the vaccines reduce long Covid which none of us need!

[Nemo24]

Had mine with a flu vaccination 2 days ago. Sore arm from covid one, it felt like it was deeper into muscle. No other side effects. If you are worried talk to your doctors or a pharmacist. Maybe one that's local to you too.

[JoannaHelen]

Had both mine. Feel fine apart from slight achey arms. Nothing to get excited about though.

[Flumptious1]

I had it last week - flu in one arm Covid in the other. No problems at all. Likewise, my husband had it, no worries.

[tunas]

I took the normal flu related vaccine prior to covid instead of the emergency one, all good. No problem with vaccines. I am just one of the peanut colony

Although I got serious diarrhea twice, even my elbows ache

[FlowerPower62]

We both had ours and were fine

[tunas]

Bottom line, consider what you put in your body. What safety protocols they followed in the development of drugs, experimental drugs. Basically any drug that finds a loop-hole like 'emergency-vaccine', that saves huge amounts of money spent on valid test trials that take years, should put the "red-herring" in mind. mRNA is called a vaccine when it is not, maybe look into that, to prove me wrong please!?

[Painting-girl in reply to tunas]

Scientists have been working on mRNA vaccines since the 1960s and 70s Tunas. The first mRNA flu vaccine was tested on mice in 1990s, and mRNA rabies vaccines were tested on humans in 2013. The first mRNA vaccines actually developed were used against ebola. Bear in mind that when Covid hit the world, suddenly it became the single priority for scientists and doctors across the world, who shared research and collaborated in an entirely unprecedented way - largely able to because coms are so good today. Imagine if Covid or something like it had hit the world even a few decades ago? Look what happened with 'Spanish Flu' (17 - 50 million deaths) look it up, and be glad that science has continued to progress. The death toll from Covid is circa 7 million.

mRNA vaccines don't use fragments of the actual disease to work like the original Astra Zeneca vaccine, but it's very smart science. The BMJ published a study of 99 million vaccinated people this year ( global vaccine data network) that's a great deal of research, a larger sample than most previous research in other areas. There's a small additional risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in primarily young men under 20 from covid mRNA vaccines which is usually easily treated - and is also a consequence of catching Covid itself. The other reported vaccine side effects are attributed to the non mRNA vaccines.

[tunas in reply to Painting-girl]

Well look at the definition of a vaccine, not the newly adjusted definition. Look at the history of vaccines, there are good reasons vaccines are only passed after at least a decade worth of tests as safe and effective. Those rules are set and final, unless they can be bypassed for whatever reason.

[Painting-girl in reply to tunas]

But mRNA has been being worked on for literally decades, has produced successful vaccines, and the BMJ research looked at side effects in 99 million vaccinated people. That's a reputable journal and an absolutely ginormous sample size. Don't knock advances in science - we don't still live in the 1800s.

[tunas in reply to Painting-girl]

The fact that you need a 'booster' for a vaccine is crazy! I understand mrna fairly well, it was usually used on small group of people with similar dna flags for chronic diseases such as cancer. To use a mrna drug on the whole population of the globe is beyond absurd, its straight up sinister.

Ill give a large sum of money to anyone who takes a covid vaccine that includes the normal medical literature about the counterinteraction, the dosage, the side effects, nothing. You won't, ill tell you for free you will find a blank page with the text left blank intentoinally or similar, good luck with that, I promise a worthy prize if you so

[Painting-girl in reply to tunas]

What's annual flu jab if it isn't a booster Tunas?

[tunas]

Well I don't want a mrna replicating and growing proteins that nature didn't decide should be growing throughout my body. A normal vaccine doesnt include that option, so no I don't think humans or 'Science' even fully understands the human genome and the consequences of just growing protiens to target covid virus when you had the mrna target yet still get covid!!??

[escocia]

Such a shame to see so many uninformed comments about vaccine safety here but none about the safety of infecting and spreading covid virus. The reason we are not still in lockdown is primarily because of people taking vaccines. Please keep taking the ones being offered.

[PurpleOverlord]

Hi, Dr Purple here. My idiot brain doesn't work very well anymore, but quite a lot of the science is still in there somewhere. My field used to be viruses and immunology, and the lab I worked in was all about vaccine development.My brain injury was caused by covid, my stupid cocky immune system got carried away and tried to fight my brain after it beat the virus. So, I'm on a mission to avoid virus infection now. I think I'm on 9 booster jabs with the ones this autumn. I love mRNA vaccines. Of course it's a 'proper vaccine'. Anything that gets your immune system prepared to fight an infection more quickly and effectively is a vaccine. And mRNA is a nucleic acid that breaks down very quickly, so it doesn't stay in your system for long.

Hmm, I wasn't going to say much, but apparently I did. Ah well, short version is that getting vaccine boosters is a good idea, and no, I haven't had any problems with all of them beyond the usual sore arm.

I'll shut up now. 😁