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I’m due to have my flu and Covid vaccines this weekend, did anyone find that they affected the B12 healing process at all. I don’t usually have a reaction to them, apart form a sore arm for a day or so.

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JesusMercy60

good morning,

I have not had any vaccinations since all this PA and B12D therapy so I can't report yet but I have read that it really affects some people on here and others are not bothered at all. Did you get any reactions?

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I'm 83 years old and have had seven covid injections with the eighth next week together with the annual 'flu jab.

Apart from the usual sore arm, headache etc for a couple of days I've had no problems and I've had P.A. for over 52 years and am still "clivealive".

This is only my own personal experience - I am not a medically trained person.

I wish you well

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topazrat

I haven't had any problems other than the ouchy arm for a few days - always the Covid arm, not the flu one

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JesusMercy60 in reply totopazrat

oh I'm so glad to hear that you all have not had any reactions to the vaccine except the normal, I was afraid to get any vaccines being that of what I had read of some of our friends on here. great news.

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Hockey_player

I had a really sore arm. If you like to sleep on your RHS, get the vaccine on your LHS. I also have had some fever with COVID vaccines but only for a short time.

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Asselchen

A friends b12d symptoms were first triggered by the Covid vaccine. Neurological symptoms started like three days after. She then started treatment with b12 injections every other day. With every following vaccination she had a setback in her healing but was able to somewhat control that with b12 injections twice a day for some time.

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LauraJane2

No adverse reaction here. If I get ill I need more B12 (Covid hit me pretty hard for months afterwards) but the vaccinations haven’t caused me any issues apart from the usual sore arm.

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Bellabab

No problems with them at all & as they stimulate our immune system I would not expect them to do so.

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cazg1

when I had covid vaccine it knocked by b12 right out, it took a good few months to bring my levels right up. All my PA systems went back to before I had b12 vaccines and took a good several months to get back to where I was before. I have the flu vaccine but definitely not the covid.

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Miss-guineapig

Hi, in 2021 and 22, I was very ill after having flu jab and Covid jab at the same time, So last year I decided to have the Covid jab first and then the flu one a week later. I was not unwell at all, so that’s what I’ll be doing this year again. Hope this helps x

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Bunbun123

In my case, the Covid vaccine set my healing process back years . I am on a perimenopause and the vaccine interfered with my hormones and immune system and caused me to have intense, inflammatory flares . Consequently, this flares would damaged my nerves. it’s taking years to balance the hormones and stop the flares. And I’m still recovering from it. I’m on HRT treatment, Cymbalta and Lyrica. I hope that when I enter menopause my body will normalize. But I am not going to have another Covid vaccine that is for sure, and I only had half a dose. I read a little bit about vaccines in general and women in peri menopause and vaccines can really affect the hormones which are connected to immune system. More studies need to be done in this area so women that are taking vaccines in this situation can be alerted to the possible consequences. Most women do not have such extreme reactions, but I’ve heard other women having symptoms that affected their menstrual cycles.

I have a wonderful doctor that connected the fact that I am in perimenopause and how that was interacting with the Pernicious Anemia. So I’m very grateful for that.

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HoneyBeeGal

I know someone who had a TIA / stroke-like reaction, which the day after getting the RSV vaccine at the same time as another vaccine (either flu or Covid: it was a year ago). The person woke up not knowing where they were (in their own home) or who the person with them was (their spouse of several years). After a 911 call and a trip to the hospital, it resolved within a day. Who knows if that event caused permanent damage or will cause earlier dementia, as the person refused further tests. Doctors and pharmacists say multiple vaccines are safe together, but there are research articles saying otherwise about certain combinations. I have had flu and pneumonia vaccines separately and together. The one time I had them together, the next day my core and legs were super hot. To me it was disturbing. So I would not get vaccines like that together again. If you feel wiped out after vaccines, maybe it has affected your B-12 levels.

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WIZARD6787

I use one of those heat packs on the injection area after the vaccine injection and massage the area. I do not have two vaccines at once against medical advice.

No issues so far.

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