Have you had your booster jab (jag) ?

[cupid_stunt]

As I said it hasn't been 6 months since 2nd jab, it's too soon, I just though I'd get it early as news seemed to imply uptake has been slow and there's no harm having it 5 months after 2nd jab.

The suggestion of reducing the gap to 5 months hasn't been approved yet.

 

[girasol]

The suggestion of reducing the gap to 5 months hasn't been approved yet.

I know, but it's being discussed.

 

[BobDavis]

Had ours yesterday in the vaccine bus. Parked in Colchester Tesco carpark. This bus parks each day at various locations in north Essex & south Suffolk. It is a walk in service no appointment needed. I found out about it last week from a poster on a shop door. Search online & details of its locations can be found on NHS website. Booster jabs were available along with first or second vacs for younger people. There was quite a queue of mostly pensioners. We queued for about half hr. Very efficient our details were taken by operatives with tablets as we queued.

I suppose we would have eventually been called but because of this we got our boosters exactly 6 months to the day since the second jabs. Feeling rough this morning but that’s expected.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

Booked in for my 3rd in the first week of November
Had my flu jab yesterday
I Will report back when I know which brand they gave me for No3

 

[TopCat]

Just got the booster. Pfizer.

 

[Sue]

Just got the booster. Pfizer.

How many's that now...?

 

[TopCat]

How many's that now...?

Let me try and remember.

 

[TopCat]

One in Dec 2020 and another a month later. Then a booster (!) six months later and then an Astra Zeneca and now this one. So five.

 

[TopCat]

The fear from being CEV is palpable. I don’t have a thing for injections.

 

[Sue]

One in Dec 2020 and another a month later. Then a booster (!) six months later and then an Astra Zeneca and now this one. So five.

I think you've won the thread.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The nhs texted me to sort out a booster jab with my GP but the vm for my gps surgery says they aren’t sorting out jabs

 

[TopCat]

Just got to get a flu jab and I’m sorted.

 

[two sheds]

Yeah, get that...it's just that quite a few folk went on at six months and were put off, not realising they'd set the trigger at 190 days...for some reason.

ta for that

I went back to the nhs booking page and it's let me book for Thursday - it was clearly the 190 days that was stopping it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just got to get a flu jab and I’m sorted.

Only one?

 

[TopCat]

Only one?

All that’s needed.

 

[TopCat]

I should get a grant to reflect my pioneering research and general approach.

 

[two sheds]

Yeah, get that...it's just that quite a few folk went on at six months and were put off, not realising they'd set the trigger at 190 days...for some reason.

ta for that again - I let my neighbour know and she's booked hers now too

 

[RubyToogood]

Had mine yesterday, pfizer like the others. Bit shivery today.

 

[LDC]

Forgot to mention side effects with my Pfizer booster I had on Tuesday. None, bar a very slightly sore arm for 12-24 hours.

 

[StoneRoad]

Looking at yesterday's update on the beeb (today's isn't out, yet at 17:15

Around 5 million total booster / third jabs have been administered.
4.5 in England, around 0.5 in Scotland & NI, Wales hasn't published any figures.

 

[RubyToogood]

Top tip. Don't book your booster for a Friday when you have weekend plans

 

[StoneRoad]

Top tip. Don't book your booster for a Friday when you have weekend plans

My reactions to the two previous doses mean that I'm not going to plan anything for several days, just in case ... when I eventually get mine. I had AZ for those first two, OH had pfizer, about a week before mine ... so no idea what we'll be getting.

 

[iona]

No side effects at all from my Pfizer booster but I'm one of those annoying people who pretty much never gets ill or gets side effects from meds.

 

[TopCat]

I feel a bit odd but am still in the pub so not too bad.

 

[iona]

I feel a bit odd but am still in the pub so not too bad.

By now you should be picking up 6G wifi at least, right?

 

[TopCat]

I feel like shit.

 

[Aladdin]

My additional jab is tomorrow. Getting slightly anxious. I felt off after jab 1, felt rotten after jab 2 and had tinnitus for 2 months afterwards. Just hoping jab 3 wont be a problem. And hoping I get Pfizer

 

[Badgers]

My additional jab is tomorrow. Getting slightly anxious. I felt off after jab 1, felt rotten after jab 2 and had tinnitus for 2 months afterwards. Just hoping jab 3 wont be a problem. And hoping I get Pfizer

It will almost certainly be Pfizer, even if you had AZ before

Everyone reacts differently of course. All my family and many colleagues have had their booster in the last two weeks. Apart from a couple of sore arms and a bit of tiredness all have been better that after the first two.

 

[Aladdin]

It will almost certainly be Pfizer, even if you had AZ before

Everyone reacts differently of course. All my family and many colleagues have had their booster in the last two weeks. Apart from a couple of sore arms and a bit of tiredness all have been better that after the first two.

that's encouraging..
They're only using Pfizer and Moderna here for the extra jabs. Hopefully it'll be pfizer..

 

[RubyToogood]

NB my frail 85 year old mother had zero side effects.

I have signed this petition to de-patent covid vaccines to assuage my guilt but went down an unproductive rabbit hole looking for something to donate to.