Autumn Booster ? 2023 edition [please change vote as you get jagged]

[gentlegreen]

If you’re diabetic you’ll get both jabs and all prescriptions free. So not worth pretending you’re not if you are.

I was classed as "diabetic" because of a single test 4 years ago.
I was "normal" within a few months - having lost about 10 kilos
I tested OK again 2 years later when I was 20 kilos lighter.
I am now 26 kilos lighter than when I was diagnosed.
But I'm happy to play along with it to get free jabs.

 

[Lurdan]

Please can we stop using the johnsonian jab?

I find there are some words and phrases which produce an almost visceral sense of revulsion when you try to say them. Someone will say something and there'll be this impulse to shout "BORIS JAB BORIS JAB BORIS JAB YOU CUNT". Thank goodness that powerful sense of inhibition kicks in to stop you saying it out loud.

Anyhow I noticed just now that round the site of the flu jab I had on Thursday there's a quite pronounced pink colouration. I'm a bit concerned by it. It's really showing up the vile pallor of the ageing flesh around it.

 

[gentlegreen]

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[Aladdin]

Been told by consultant that I should not get the vaccine
He is now certain that it kicked off my AIH.
So... that's shit.

 

[_Russ_]

I was classed as "diabetic" because of a single test 4 years ago.
I was "normal" within a few months - having lost about 10 kilos
I tested OK again 2 years later when I was 20 kilos lighter.
I am now 26 kilos lighter than when I was diagnosed.
But I'm happy to play along with it to get free jabs.

Someone gave you an assumed diagnosis based purely on being overweight? and you further assume that it is a simple matter of weight reduction that changes that diagnosis?

 

[gentlegreen]

Someone gave you an assumed diagnosis based purely on being overweight? and you further assume that it is a simple matter of weight reduction that changes that diagnosis?

Are you suggesting I have a malfunctioning pancreas ?

I suspect at some point in the future I will set myself up with static bike /VO2MAX / ECG and will also use a CGM occasionally and will see what's really going on.

Apparently in Switzerland they consider you "cured" after 5 years.

 

[two sheds]

There's no 'yes no idea' option

So yes, flu in left arm and coronavirus in right arm. I now know what it's like to have a reaction to the coronavirus jab

slight ache in my right arm

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Got the injection today, Pfizer. Please can we stop using the johnsonian jab?

I tend to use jag, rather than jab, but both ime predate that particular pratt.

i don't think 'jab' as a word is particularly johnsonian - i'm sure it was in common use for the flu vaccination before the uk was infected with either covid or johnson. think 'jag' is a scottish / north of england word.

(or isn't that what you meant?)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

think 'jag' is a scottish / north of england word.

Never heard jag being used in the bit of the north of England I grew up in, so maybe it's a sub-regional thing in places.

 

[cesare]

Had Pfizer (with new variant) yesterday morning right arm and flu left arm. My partner had both in his right arm.

I'm not familiar with Jag either, it's jab around here. Like Puddy_Tat and farmerbarleymow say it's probably a part regional valuation, I've not heard it from the Yorkshire people I know.

 

[gentlegreen]

I hope my COVID protection is good.
BIL here as usual Monday and niece and 8 yr old have COVID AGAIN....
1 week after booster is maybe cutting it fine....

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I hope my COVID protection is good.
BIL here as usual Monday and niece and 8 yr old have COVID AGAIN....
1 week after booster is maybe cutting it fine....

You can pay for a test to see how your immune system has responded - not exactly cheap but not horrendous either. Best wait another few weeks to give your system a chance to mount the response to the vaccine.

Covid-19 Antibody Test

monitormyhealth.org.uk

 

[izz]

Had both flu and COVID vaccines yesterday, enjoyed a night of trying to sleep on either hurty side, arms still hurty but hey ! Better than the diseases

 

[two sheds]

I sleep on my front so had a good night. Arms still slightly sore but touch wood nothing else.

 

[moochedit]

Had Pfizer (with new variant) yesterday morning right arm and flu left arm. My partner had both in his right arm.

I'm not familiar with Jag either, it's jab around here. Like Puddy_Tat and farmerbarleymow say it's probably a part regional valuation, I've not heard it from the Yorkshire people I know.

Nope not heard Jag where I live in the midlands either.

 

[Ron Merlin]

Pfizer on Friday. Achy arm for a bit, but fine now.

 

[Sue]

Apparently that was number six -- I've now had five Pfizer and one Moderna.

 

[Elpenor]

Pfizer for me earlier

Edit, feel fine, been working this evening and forgot I’d had it till I saw the thread

 

[Voley]

'Flu jab this afternoon. No symptoms so far, which I'm pleased about after the last covid one. Haven't even got a sore arm this time.

 

[two sheds]

Haven't even got a sore arm this time.

Lucky sod

Mind you my arm isn't sore any more either.

 

[Voley]

Lucky sod

Mind you my arm isn't sore any more either.

I'm a bit achey in the limbs today, a bit like when you've got a cold brewing, but it's minor. Hope yours passes quickly.

 

[MickiQ]

I've had my covid booster jab (Modena) an hour and a half ago, Whilst I was there they gave me a flu jab for the hell of it since I hadn't had that either yet.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Pfizer brand Jab and Flu shot yesterday

 

[Mation]

Had a Pfizer booster this week, and a flu jab last. No discernible side effects from either

 

[Looby]

Pfizer booster in right arm, flu in left yesterday.
Pfizer arm is really hurting, flu just a bit sore.

I’ve got a fairly lazy weekend planned which was deliberate.

 

[Numbers]

Pfizer and flu jab at 9:30 this morning, both in right arm cos I mostly sleep on my left side. All 4 jabs previously made me feel very unwell so hopefully not this time.

 

[Signal 11]

I had them both today too - one in each arm. Not sure which covid one it was so I ticked Pfizer as that seems the most common.

 

[Numbers]

Somehow slept a solid 7.5 hours straight last night.

Feel rough as fuck now tho’.

 

[pogofish]

Had my flu and Moderna Covid shots yesterday morning. In and out the vaccine centre within twenty minutes.

Initially, the pain in my flu arm was more than in my Covid arm - however, within a few hours, the flu pain subsided to just a little nerve tingle along my forearm but the Covid site pain got significantly worse.

Apart from that, all was fine and I had an easy evening and went to bed.

About 5am, the shivers hit and I woke-up shaking and shivering despite being warmly tucked-up in bed. The electric blanket went-on and after an hour or so, the shivers subsided.

Now I'm fully up and sunk a few coffees, I'm still not feeling that great - Not shivery but joint pain, particularly knees and shoulders and a significant but nonspecific meh feeling and its sore when I try and lift my Covid arm, so no straightening-up slates after the storm today! I'll be taking it easy/keeping warm and will see if I can do a WFH tomorrow if it isn't significantly settled in the morning. Which from past experience might have happened as iffy-effects from previous shots have largely cleared in the 24-48hr range.

One weird thing, a few minutes after my Covid shot, my blood sugar sensor, in the same arm karked - It still had a few days to run but with a loud beep, it announced a fault and flatly refused to reconnect to my phone. Later-on, I activated a new one in the other arm and it has held fine. Last year, my work Mac keyboard died the moment I came back from the vaccine centre - Wooo..!

 

[crossthebreeze]

Well didn't manage to get jabbed before i went away because life happened but got double vaxxed at the local pharmacy last night.

Probably the least painful injections i've ever had and the pharmacist really put me at ease. No symptoms yet except a slightly sore covid arm/shoulder and possibly feeling a bit more cold than normal.