Hurrah

[allanah]

Looks like oxford vaccine (suggested strongly) that it will be passed 28/29 december ........ prof John Cambell health advisor....

[Lolabridge]

Yippee!

[allanah in reply to Lolabridge]

Well this man has been right the whole way through so fingers crossed. I would even think it should be passed under emergency legislation. .do look at ..........YouTube dr John Campbell excellent vaccine news

[MadBunny in reply to allanah]

Just what we need - good news😥😁

[allanah in reply to MadBunny]

I know, game changer! lets hope hes right but he has been so far!!

[MadBunny in reply to allanah]

I just hope it's not live so I can have it

[allanah in reply to MadBunny]

Lol its NOT LIVE !!!

[allanah in reply to allanah]

Ps I put it like this as I typed it wrongly earlier!!

[Neonkittie17 in reply to allanah]

💗🤞🏻

[Niao]

Excellent!

[Pippy25]

All sounding hopeful x

[Lolabridge]

Just been looking on the US Creaky Joints website about vaccines for the immunosuppressed and it says both Pfizer and Oxford Zeneca ones are ok for the immunosuppressed and are not live vaccines.

[allanah in reply to Lolabridge]

Agreed! NOT a live vaccine but if worried check with docs!

[Lolabridge in reply to allanah]

Yes it's worth checking with your Rheumatology Consultant. The timing of when you have the vaccine within the RA medication cycle may be important. I would want only my Rheumy to tell me when that will be.

[Neonkittie17 in reply to Lolabridge]

I would love to be able to speak to my rheumy nurse and/or rheumy re timing and how long needed to wait after Rtx but won’t be able to get in touch with anyone to ask. My GPs wouldn’t know and would admit that! I feel it’s going to be 6 months after Rtx ideally as that’s when your B cells start to repopulate, but await advice or probably read or hear it here before anyone contacts me from rheumatology. They are very slow at my hospital at the best of times.

I do feel some patients may get an NHS letter for the vaccine before they have received the rheumy advice on this. The rheumys are likely waiting for more advice themselves. Some RA meds of course will be straight forward.

[Lolabridge in reply to Neonkittie17]

Let’s hope the BSR will publish advice for us and that NRAS will also advise.There’s an NRAS FB live about vaccines this evening so maybe we will hear more in that.

There are about 8 million people to be vaccinated before me (according to The Times app) so there should be time to find out.

[Neonkittie17]

Thank you. Hoping Rtx (B cell depleting) infusion patients can have this .. hoping all RA patients can.

[allanah]

Yeah be great to get advice officially.

[allanah]

If you look on the british rheumatology site there are specific there...but I think you still ask your doc .

rheumatology.org.uk/

[Neonkittie17 in reply to allanah]

Thank you. I have seen BSR website advice and they said the same as JVT video interview. As I said on another post it’s the timing for Rtx infusion patients we need to know. x

[Spin1959]

Thank goodness 😀

[allanah]

I do think that cancer doctors, rheumy doctors and lupus docs and patients etc will all need advice on the ins and outs of the vaccines. They probably have a few weeks now to look at the data before it gets to the " shielding" folk. I cant see they would want everyone in these groups to talk directly to individually talk to each doc ! so my guess is they will make blanket decisions but will have to be soon !!

So I hope out patient groups like NRAS can pressure on our behalf for the answers to what the regime will be on specific drugs , very soon. ??