Hi Everyone. Has anybody received a letter yet about their April Covid jab? You follow the NHS App and it brings up an out of date link telling you about Autumn 2023 jabs. It then tells you further down that the page will be updated in 2026.
I just looked on my personal NHS account and nowhere can I see any of my health conditions.
I had a flare up of my Secondary Sjögren’s just before Christmas. Rheumatology weren’t interested, my GP said he couldn’t deal with eyes. Saw my optician who said I should go to A&E. I eventually saw a very stroppy Ophthalmologist who said if I had Sjögren’s I should be used to it by now and should just keep putting my usual drops in. I needed steroid drops and assumed my GP could prescribe them but I was told they couldn’t. I’m really getting worried about our lack of NH S care. Does anyone think the same?
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COVID-19 is more serious in older people and in people with certain underlying health conditions. For these reasons, people aged 75 years and over, those in care homes, and those aged 6 months and over with a weakened immune system are being offered a spring dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Timing of the spring booster
You should be offered an appointment between April and June, with those at highest risk being called in first. You will be invited to have your booster around 6 months after your last dose, but you can have it as soon as 3 months.
If you are turning 75 years of age between April and June, you do not have to wait until your birthday, you can attend when you are called for vaccination.
You will be invited for your booster, your GP may offer you the vaccine or you can book using the NHS app for Apple or Android. You can also find your nearest walk-in vaccination site from the NHS website.
Unless things change drastically…I will only have the Flu jab.l still have only 50% (if that) of my sense of taste & smell as a result of the first two Covid jabs! It’s very disheartening cooking something everyone says is very tasty….when to me it tastes of cardboard.
Oh very sure…it took me months to get over the first vax…..then I was a brave little soldier..& had the second….which was also iffy. Vax 3 & 4 were ok…but the damage was done.
I eventually succumbed to Covid …& it was no worse than a cold….so I’ll take my chances!
So glad you had the shingles jabs.just into second week of shingles and the pain is really horrible.Believe me the jabs are really the lesser of two evils.I am 80 in November so hope to have the jabs before that cut off point,and when I feel better.x
I quite agree. I’m stopping my Etanercept. I am getting all the same flare ups of red eyes, sore throat with swollen glands, blurred vision with photosensitivity, raised rash on arms and chest and tiredness (worse than normal) as I had in December and January. I’m leaving a message on the Rheumatology Helpline tomorrow saying that I’ll talk to them about it at my appointment on 2 May. What’s the betting it will be cancelled? 😡
I have prescribed eye drops via the ophthalmologist. I was pushed from GP to opticians few times, but my vision was deteriorating quickly. GP referred me to ophthalmology and was seen the following o. Given eye drops for days and thick stuff for nights. My eyesight has returned to normal. Live in Kent.
I've had my letter to go for my covid jab was meant to be 10th April but changed to 13th April, I'm 52 and live in Wales. Trying to see my rheumatologist is a completely different story.
I have infusions every 6 months and not even the nurses on the ward can get me am appointment.
Not that I want to have any more Covid jabs…but all through the whole Pandemic my GP surgery replied to any query on the subject with “covid is nothing to do with us”
It’s their standard response to most things…I’d love to know what they do deal with! They don’t even listen to 111…..who made an appointment for me to have a bad cut checked to see if it needed stitching & to have a tetanus jab.The receptionist asked me…”do you think it’s worth it?
As has been said…probably depends on area …. & how much vaccine is available from the local distribution unit? I would think GPs, are just told when they are getting it I don’t think they would have a choice..
My GP surgery contacted me to come for my COVID vaccine on 16th April and my husband who’s over 75 is going in May. As to eyes I’m seen yearly at hospital eye clinic as I’m on hydroxychloroquine . Also due my dry eyes I’m seen regularly by Health Harmony at my local health centre, was referred via my ophthalmologist at opticians. I live in Reading area and come under The Royal Berks Hospital . I feel lucky living here as my RA experience with them is good. Hope you get seen by someone x
Sorry to hear you are getting fed up with the NHS run around . I was getting a bit concerned about the next COVID injection as I am over 75 and at high risk medically. You are not alone in your concerns. Hopefully you will get things sorted as to where you go for your drops for your eyes, I would have thought like you to go to GP these changes are getting out of hand now. Best wishes.
I`m concerned by the NHS could be doing . Look up you tube for DR John Campbell to understand what I`m getting at from leading members of Parliament who have taken this up now along with interviews with oncologists +the fines being meted out to pharmaceutical companies (derisory ) by our health agency protectors .
For myself I have had 2 injections and I rue the day I did ,I cannot say for sure but suddenly ended with cancer which went from stage 1 to stage 3 within a month this maybe down to T cell reduction ,low vitamin D (which I asked for specifically to be checked on blood checks)
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