'flu jab'

[Wowbagger]

Jan phoned our local pharmacist who have us on a list for the over-65s jab. None in as of today. Try again in a few days...

[PeteB99]

Had mine on Sat. very slick procedure similar to Giropauls. Apart from slightly sore arm no ill effects. did an hours light turbo session yesterday.

[rafletcher]

Following my excellent experience yesterday I felt pretty much fine this morning, so went out on the bike for 2.5 to 3 hrs.
Midways through the afternoon ( back home by now) I feel quite grotty, shivery and cold. My joints ache more than the osteoarthritis norm.
Is this just fairly normal, or unusual but ok, or something to keep track of please?

I'd say not normal, especially as the jab is dead virus IIUIC. I've had the jab for each of the last 10 years (self employed contractor) and have never once felt any side-effect other than a slight soreness at the injection site. That's from ages 52-62, and no other conditions / medications.

[Notsototalnewbie]

We've got a mass vaccination centre in the Croydon Ikea. Husband had to argue his case whereas normally it's them asking him to come in - apparently they are rationing them round here with over 65s the priority.

I might wait a bit (don't want to take one off someone more needy) before trying to get a paid-for one. No qualifying conditions for me, but it did take me a long time to get over the one time I had it.

[Kim]

We've got a mass vaccination centre in the Croydon Ikea. Husband had to argue his case whereas normally it's them asking him to come in - apparently they are rationing them round here with over 65s the priority.

That doesn't really make sense, given that the over-65s get a different vaccine.

Anyway, I'm booked in at the GP's for mine on Monday.

[FifeingEejit]

Missed 2 phone calls from OHSAS about rebooking mine this morning... only jsut got an e-mail from them saying to call them between 2 and 4.
So far failed to get through...

[Notsototalnewbie]

We've got a mass vaccination centre in the Croydon Ikea. Husband had to argue his case whereas normally it's them asking him to come in - apparently they are rationing them round here with over 65s the priority.

That doesn't really make sense, given that the over-65s get a different vaccine.

I'd forgotten that, but good point. Wonder what they'd have said if he'd pointed that out to them.

[Duckfoot1606]

Although T2 diabetic I normally don’t bother. This year I have no hesitation, booked in for next week.

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[IJL]

That doesn't really make sense, given that the over-65s get a different vaccine.

It depends, there are vaccines that are for the under 65's only, but there are vaccines that can be used in all adults, depends what has been ordered

In previous years we have been quite loose with the under 65's and people who weren't eligible would have a vaccine as many of those who were eligible didn't want one

this year everyone wants one

I'm normally trying to a few extra doses in the new year, rather than trying to get a few hundred extras now.

Those with asthma are only eligible under 65 if they use a regular inhaled steroid, if they've not had an inhaler prescribed in years there not eligible and if they don't take that information from reception they can take it from a very irritated nurse practitioner

[FifeingEejit]

I'm sure there's a more recent series of posts that I can't find for this, so if the movers need to get involved then so be it.


Just been for my OHSAS flu jab, issued by a dental therapist.

Questions were being asked about what is being issued, in my case:
Flucelvax Tetra
Egg free
4 strains, 2 A and 2 B of which I have taken a photo




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[ian]

Cocker spaniel. Keep tabs on your ears. Or more appositely, the urge to raise your leg when passing a lamp post.

[FifeingEejit]

Explains why I keep looking at bushes with birds in them, just as well its not Springer.

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[FifeingEejit]

hrm, I seem to now have the urge to curl up next to the radiator but also in the middle of the doorway and have a nap...

[FifeingEejit]

Ah! This is the post I was looking for earlier, but instead I posted in the only one that search found which was 'flu jab'

<Shrugs>

[Polar Bear]

Am I being reckless in not being concerned at all?  I am 57 and never have an annual flu jab.  I could not claim to have never had the flu but I haven't been incapacitated by flu for donkeys years, touch wood ...

[FifeingEejit]

I've been floored by something similar to the flu twice, sod going through that again if I can avoid it.

Also my employer is big on pushing it to staff, not only does it reduce the amount of people off sick on full pay but also reduces the number of staff that manage to get both flu and covid at the same time.

Which is kind of handy when your the health board and already have plans to redeploy everyone into absolutely any job they can possibly do.

Remember the government included an insurance clause in the coronavirus acts to cover non medically registered people for malpractice?
That's so IT guys like me can be shown where the deltoid is and then a pile of prefilled syringes and a series of patients.

My former service manager who's now a step above that has been involved in discussions about how to run a coronavirus vaccination service to get all of the health boards patients done in the target timescale.
It needs some method of recording of administration as its likely to be a 2 shot job (seems a fairly easy form to add to our epr to me, no need for excel)

And an IFT of staff that aren't directly needed to run the hospital, so that's it people that don't need to be on instant response of a server goes on the rampage or something...


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[The Movers]

I'm sure there's a more recent series of posts that I can't find for this, so if the movers need to get involved then so be it.
Just been for my OHSAS flu jab, issued by a dental therapist.
Questions were being asked about what is being issued, in my case:
Flucelvax Tetra
Egg free
4 strains, 2 A and 2 B of which I have taken a photo

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Just to confuse you all, there were two threads: flu jab and 'flu jab' which have now been merged.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Have one booked through work, which means I have to go into London to have it.  Would it be unwise to cycle the 50 miles home afterwards?

[SteveC]

Am I being reckless in not being concerned at all?  I am 57 and never have an annual flu jab.  I could not claim to have never had the flu but I haven't been incapacitated by flu for donkeys years, touch wood ...

I used to feel like you, but MrsC persuaded me to pay a couple of years ago. I mentioned that I was intending to get a jab to my GP (to make sure it didn't interfere with the treatment he was organising for me) and he seemed quite pleased that I was bothering. A lot of the people I mix with in the village are elderly, in some cases very, so keeping it away from them was part of the incentive.

[Polar Bear]

Fair reasoning.

None of that applies to me though.  I am not on any treatments or medications either immediate, short term or long term.  I don't have any underlying conditions.   I don't mix even in non-covid times save for a small circle of regulars and since March I have hardly mixed at all. 

I got a sniffle a few days back which annoyed me given that I hadn't been "socialising", all indoor activities other than at home have been fully masked and the only person to get closer than 2m from me is mllePB.   She is working from home and arguably vets out even less than me given that she is doing a full week in the home office and we are keeping our social connections alive using WhatsApp and Zoom.  The sniffle very quickly passed.

I am open to persuasion re a flu jab but there are probably many many older and more vivacious folk who would benefit more and thus be in front of me in the queue.  Heck, I suspect that I am more likely to catch something just going through the process of getting the jab.  GP waiting rooms are not exactly full of healthy types. 

[FifeingEejit]

Have one booked through work, which means I have to go into London to have it.  Would it be unwise to cycle the 50 miles home afterwards?

My right arm "weighed a tonne" by the time I got home, that was a 20min drive.

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[ian]

I've been jabbed a lot for trips to foreignland, so a flu jab was nothing. I used to get one despite being a healthy, youngish individual because the mothership jabbed us. That said, the last time I had one a couple of years ago, I got quite ill afterwards, so haven't done so since.

Logically, I know the flu-like symptoms afterwards were a coincidence, there's no live virus in the jab. But the monkey part of my brain didn't like that explanation.

The same social distancing and other preventative measures act against the transmission of influenza as much as COVID, of course. That said, the only thing that stops you getting flu and COVID at the same time is probability.

[rafletcher]

Have one booked through work, which means I have to go into London to have it.  Would it be unwise to cycle the 50 miles home afterwards?

Perfectly do-able IME.

[Mr Larrington]

One of the dokta's minions rang me up on Wednesday to offer me one.  Had it Thursday morning.  Complimented the crool nurse on her technique as I literally didn't feel the needle going in.  She allowed as how this was because she practiced a lot on small children, who tend to kick you in the face if it hurts.

Anyway, instead of hurting at the time of administration, it hurts now.  Bah!

[Kim]

Just been flu stabbed.  By a nurse^[1] in full PPE.  In a very empty GP's waiting room.  Bottles of hand sanitiser outnumbered humans by a ratio of about 2:1.

The door intercom protocol has been stepped up from "press the button and the receptionist will press their button" to an inaudible conversation about who you are, why you're there and whether you have any COVID-19 symptoms before they'll allow entry.  Not sure how barakta would cope.


_{[1] Well it was supposed to be a nurse.  Given what they were wearing it could have been a ballet dancer on day release from Cryptanalysis 101 for all I know.}