Flu and covid jabs

[Nagswoman]

I am at a PMRGCA local group meeting and a new lady asked if she should have the flu and covid jabs, separately, as she had pneumonia after her joint covid and jab a year ago. She was subsequently diagnosed with PMR.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer]

Was this meant as a reply to anther post or a new question?

As we have said so many times over the years - any vaccine can cause adverse affect by prodding an already under strain immune system resulting in PMR.

Yes, it would be sensible to leave time between the vaccines - at least one week, two would probably be better.

[Nagswoman in reply to DorsetLady]

New lady asked the question. I hope she will join this group.

[DorsetLady PMRGCAuk volunteer in reply to Nagswoman]

Good, let you steer her in our direction ..😊

[SnazzyD]

The other way she can look at it is a double injection is double the adjuvants that are used to pep up the immune system to cause a state that will put it into alert. It’s not so much the number of diseases themselves in the vaccine that decide how vigorously it pokes the immune hornets’ nest.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immun...

[PMRpro Ambassador]

My GP always says one vaccine at a time!!

[Purplecrow in reply to PMRpro]

👋🏽

[Miacaro45]

I have always separated vaccines for me, my children and animals. Personally, I like to know which vaccine might be causing a side effect.

[Gimme]

She could do what I did last year. I turned up for a double vax and took the one for covid as that is the one with special storage requirements and would have been wasted if I hadn't taken it. Then I refused the flu jab and had it a few weeks later. You can have the flu one any time, assuming they have the stock. I wasn't as forthright as that. I just said to the nurse that I was really iffy about having the two together as I have an autoimmune condition and am worried about triggering a flare, so she said that she would do just the covid one as it would go to waste otherwise. She said I could call her when I wanted to have the other one.

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to Gimme]

I had the flu one as soon as the GP had it in stock and booked the Covid jab on its own as they are done at a central clinic. But apparently some GPs here don't do the flu jab - I suspect the ones in town, the ones in the sticks do.