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Which jab did you have - Astra Zeneca or Pfizer? And what side effects?

What jab? What side effects?

  • I had the Pfizer

    Votes: 66 18.6%
  • I had the Astra Zeneca

    Votes: 125 35.2%
  • I don't know what I had

    Votes: 1 0.3%
  • Pfizer + no side effects

    Votes: 65 18.3%
  • Pfizer + some side effects lasting less than/about 48 hours

    Votes: 38 10.7%
  • Pfizer + side effects lasting more than 2 days

    Votes: 6 1.7%
  • AZ + no side effects

    Votes: 51 14.4%
  • AZ + some side effects lasting less than/about 48 hours

    Votes: 121 34.1%
  • AZ + side effects lasting more than 2 days

    Votes: 37 10.4%
  • Something else (explain yourself)

    Votes: 13 3.7%

  • Total voters
    355
  • Poll closed .
Have you tried putting in his postcode and using this tool and calling some GPs and explaining the situation?

The GPs are being uncooperative, not interested, receptionists won't help him, practice manager told him no, no apology or explanation or anything.
 
Just one. I will tell him to look further afield. But in the meantime he needs a vaccination. The last surgery said yes, and then a month later turned around and said no.

No idea what's going on then. I'd formally complain if that happened. And try another one close by. Is this the person that doesn't speak much English? If so I'd get someone to call on his behalf when he's there.
 
This looks hopeful, thanks.

Good luck with it. I'm afraid the authorities there have quite a poor pandemic track record in general, so this sort of option may not work out perfectly for your friend on the first attempt, some persistence may be required, especially if demand is high to start with. But at the very least we can now see that they know there is a problem with their rigid approach and I'd expect more of this sort of flexible option from them going forwards.
 
No idea what's going on then. I'd formally complain if that happened. And try another one close by. Is this the person that doesn't speak much English? If so I'd get someone to call on his behalf when he's there.
He's English but you have to be pretty aggressive in your attempts to get a vaccine without a GP and I don't think he can manage that.
 
Cant he just register on the online website using his NHS number based on age? It's crap one practice wont accept him but sorry - he definitely can get the jab, it wont be that impossible. Almost certainly worth just turning up at the end of the day if he's over 40s, they're keen to do people that have been 'missed'.

No invite for me yet, clearly theyre not doing 30 and 31s quite yet...
 
Cant he just register on the online website using his NHS number based on age? It's crap one practice wont accept him but sorry - he definitely can get the jab, it wont be that impossible. Almost certainly worth just turning up at the end of the day if he's over 40s, they're keen to do people that have been 'missed'.

No invite for me yet, clearly theyre not doing 30 and 31s quite yet...

Were you posting on BL when you were 15 or something??
 
Cant he just register on the online website using his NHS number based on age? It's crap one practice wont accept him but sorry - he definitely can get the jab, it wont be that impossible. Almost certainly worth just turning up at the end of the day if he's over 40s, they're keen to do people that have been 'missed'.

No invite for me yet, clearly theyre not doing 30 and 31s quite yet...
No, he's tried the online website, for some reason it doesn't recognise his NHS number because he was out of the country for a decade.
The problem of just turning up is if you work shifts, don't drive and aren't near a vaccine center it's not very motivating to just take a chance.
But it seems he has finally found a way,he knows a senior nurse who has offered to register him under her. But goes to show how hard it is if you're not registered.
 
No jabs in my town! Nearest is bloody Taunton! Gonna ring my surgery.

The NHS sites are fairly limited on locations, I would check your GP's website, around here they set-up their own special jab line, they don't tend to like people calling the surgery about jabs, plus some are behind on age groups compared to the national NHS set-up.
 
Seems to happen often for age-noobs on their first day of available booking. Should be more closer sites offered in a day or two.
That's effectively what happened with me. As soon as my age group were eligible, the NHS sent a letter for me to book, but when I looked the local vaccination centre wasn't listed. Then a couple of days later I got a text from my GP surgery which included the link to book at the local centre.
 
Yeah on any given day the locations offered by the central booking system should not be taken as a guide to which centres are actually part of that system. Because it only shows sites where booking slots are currently available, and that changes all the time as availability of doses for different dates and different places are added to the system.

Using the very same system, the choices I was offered varied considerably every day. After a couple of days trying a bunch were added which were actually in my town, and I know they had also been available via that system in the past, before and after the period where they didnt come up as options for me.
 
Thanks for your reply (and elbows too).

My GP felt my abdomen but didn't go beyond 'can't feel any lumps'. She's a great GP btw. She was very honest and straightforward admitting it wasn't an area of specialisation for her and put me on to the hospital.

They gave me a phone call yesterday, asking about history (there is none) and arranging the stool tests and explaining everything about the process very well.

Then this morning I get no diarrhea (first time in 56 days) but incredibly black stools. It's Saturday and I'm just resigned to seeing what the next poos bring. And feeling relieved (but very weird) about not having the associated cramps etc for today.

May as well have a little moan.

So to follow this, one week later, I have finally received the stool tests through the post (a week after being declared 'urgent') and have a CT scan appointment for June 7th (3 weeks after being declared 'urgent').

And in this week, my partner received four letters of miscommunication about her jab, basically asking her to come for her second jab, which she's had anyway. The fourth communication was the best, apologizing for the first three which "you should not have received because you are under 25".

My partner is 66.

And I still have the shits.
 
The kabbess was due to have hers yesterday (Thursday) but got a text on Wednesday saying it and her second jab had been cancelled. Cue brief tantrum based on the fact that she booked it three to four weeks ago (which was the delay at the time), but that was curtailed by looking up when she could have a replacement appointment and finding it was today (Friday) in a more convenient location to boot. So she has now had it, and it was the Pfizer one, which is a result — she has various autoimmune issues and was concerned at the AZ scares.

Two hours on and no effects so far, but we shall see what happens over the next few days.
 
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