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I was exactly the same as you, bit concerned actually! :D

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Our twins have been called for their seconds jabs next week. No driving for miles across the city this time. They are being jabbed in Tesco 200 yards away!

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Had it the other day. I had Moderna. After I was a little light headed and sweated a little. I was fine after about 10 mins though, it may of just been cause I don't do needles and haven't had one in 16 years.

Im glad your ok :)

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2nd Astra shot an hour ago.

Already the horrible metallic taste is back. my arms feels 'dead' and I'm shattered

However, if that's the worst of it I'll be fine.

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I should have had my second Pfizer jab in April but I had to postpone it because at the time I was in hospital having a Pacemaker fitted.

Finally had the injection yesterday. Very easy to book online for Nottingham Forest Recreation Ground. The centre was extremely busy but, unlike for my first jab (queued in bitter cold for 90 minutes), all was very efficient and, as before, the staff were brilliant. In fact, as everybody except me was a youngster, from when I hobbled in on my walking stick I enjoyed VIP treatment.

No ill effects.

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And let’s face it, you don’t often have much to cheer about after standing in the bitter cold for 90 minutes at Nottingham Forest. :D

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Oi ... :nono:

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Tuesday 15 June 2021 14:14, UK

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...pects-12333012

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Got my second jab tomorrow, not looking forward to it

Good luck :)

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Anyone else had their booster jab yet? Had mine (Pfizer) on Tuesday and as previously no side effects.

Could have booked for Thursday/Friday last week but avoided due to terrible weather forecast and as so often forecast wrong and we had two dry days.

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I went for what I thought was a booster last Monday, but when I was there I was told it was actually a 3rd dose of AZ and I'll get a booster in 6 months. Also got flu jab at the same time.

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Huh? That is a booster.

When did you get the second one?

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A third dose of any manufacturer’s covid vaccine is a booster. I’m not sure where the confusion has arisen but I keep running into people who seem to believe that the “booster jab” is a completely different drug. It isn’t. At most, it might be a different company’s vaccine formula, depending on clinical advice and/or availability, or a different dosage. But fundamentally the booster is just another dose of vaccine.

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We had our Pfizer boosters on the 27th Sept at a dedicated Covid vacc site - so 9/10 days ago. Next morning our GP gave us our Flu jabs along with my regular B12 injection.

As usual with previous jabs we both had sore arms for a couple of days but no other side effects.

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No sign of them happening outside of care homes here in Wales, and the First Minister has been silent, apart from yesterday's vote to bring in a covid "Pass".

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In Scotland anyway they are calling it a 3rd dose and you get what you had for the first 2. They stated I will get a booster in 6 months.

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I had my 2nd shot in April.

In Scotland they are calling it a 3rd dose. With another booster shot in 6 months time.

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You have to have had a booster shot before you can get another booster shot

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That's interesting regarding the flu jab. I'd already had mine but was told you can't have the two jabs within three days of each other - I assume they were just referring to the Pfizer vaccine. Seems to be some confilicting information.

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Speaking today to a friend who’s a doctor - they revised the advice, it’s ok to have both at the same time now.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2411

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:tu: That's what I thought, guess the info hadn't been passed on to everyone.

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It's perfectly fine to get both together. I got them last week at the vaccine centre I went to.

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I got my Flu jab today, and the advice on it is other vaccines can be given at the same time.

I wont get any booster until the end of November (at the earliest) as that would be six months after my 2nd jab.

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When we went for our booster shots we were expecting to have our Flu jabs at the same time. On the day it wasn't possible because there had been none delivered. As far as I know the centre we went to still hasn't had any delivered.

I was due to have my B12 jab at the Doctors the next day and I asked if he could do our Flu jabs. Unfortunately he hadn't had his order delivered either but knew that the independent chemists in the same building had been receiving their weekly Flu vaccination stocks for 2 weeks.

The Doctor phoned through to the Chemists and the lovely, helpful Pharmacist came through to the surgery and gave my husband and I our jabs which saved us having to make an appointment with him later in the week.

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Interesting to see the demographic on here (and reading back through this, that quite a few were talking on here about getting 2nd jabs way before I'd been offered my 1st) is now to the point you're talking about 3rd jabs (which is what they are, even though you guys who didn't get mRNA vaccines the first time around will be) which possibly we'll never get.


Also, as a slight off topic diversion - that I'd still been checking in on here sporadically but not really posting much, but that the people on here seems to be the same (great) crowd as before, but all a bit older, and with what doesn't appear to be much younger blood at the other end, so I still feel like one of the younger ones :o

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Well, I dont know anyone who gets younger :)

Ive been here for 31% of my entire life :eek:

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I joined in 2007. Doesn't time fly.

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I only came to change a light bulb, then couldn't find the way out.

Think I was close a couple of times when chased by a bloke with a big hammer :D

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Same here. :D
Tell the truth, you never really wanted to leave. You would miss all the cranky, argumentative old codgers who hang out here. :D :D :D

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Had both my Pfyzers.

Several of my friends in the NHS recommended that one over the others and I'm glad I got that one.

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Like me who joined in 2004!


Was young back then.....Now got 3 kids, a mortgage and seem like I never have enough time in the day.

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Can't ever remember you ever being cranky and argumentative. Older and wiser seems to be a better description.

Back to topic .... I never had a choice regarding which Covid vaccination I could have as an mRNA version was the one my Consultant advised,wanting me to have the maximum cover due to my unpredictable immune system. He had me inoculated in December last year, mRNA Pfizer was the only jab being used which was lucky.

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That is very kind of you joglynne.:)

It is great to see there are still longtime members still here.




I found with the Pfizer it was the first one that gave me a real heavy arm and a headache.
I was fearing the second one as it is meant to be worse, but I was absolutely fine.


Maybe it helped that I had Covid a few months back, who knows.
I was glad the vaccines didnt bring it back. Never felt so strange and ill back then.



My wife has now had her 3rd vaccine as she works in the NHS.


I wonder if over time they'll be able to combine it into the flu vaccine so people will just need one vaccine every year.

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I think with the high numbers of people not taking vaccines we will see mutations of Covid ad infinitum but hopefully they will find something that can as you say be a just one jab with the flu jab

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Firstly not all mutations -> more virulent/infectious/dangerous.


As the population is exposed to variants it will build up a more generalised immunity.

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Yes, what i meant is that we don't seem to have had many younger people sign up over time, which is a bit odd - so the regulars have just got older. In fact the "kids" we did have around 5-6 years back seem to have disappeared too. It's odd because you'd normally expect newer people.
Yeah it does, 2007 still seems like not long ago but it's 14 years now.

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This is what people like Hugh Osmond (who is qualified in medicine) are saying about vaccine passports and specifically vaccine immunity as opposed to natural immunity. (And given that double jabbed people are still getting it, it seems to be true)



It seems that getting a spike protein into someone is great when that spike protein exactly is what you're looking for, but of course we know that the variants have differences in the spike protein, making the specific immunity less easy to recognise it, and that the immune system can recognise other parts of the whole virus which is why natural immunity seems to be better.


Of course you could modify the mRNA or viral vector vaccines to have the spike protein of Delta but presumably this would take at least time to make and modify production by which point the situation may have changed.

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Hugh Osmond is not qualified in Medicine - he did 3 years of Medicine at Oxford, then dropped out and went to the US when he was 21.

According to the NHS careers website

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Yes, I should have been more precise (but it's not wholly relevant). He studied medicine at university level for 3 years, which (considering it was also Oxford) would no doubt have required a high aptitude to get in as well as a decent grounding in terms of knowledge. So, you would've expected he would have a decent enough idea of how a virus works, how immunity works, how useful NPIs are, etc etc, even if his knowledge isn't specialised enough to practise medicine; more so than journalists or Karen off facebook anyway. Additionally, being a businessman in a trade which has been affected by covid he would also know other aspects of the response and how this translates to the effects on combating the virus.


A great deal of what he has said about covid has (with hindsight) turned out to be true... Esp the point I was making about vax immunity vs natural immunity, which kind of makes vax passes somewhat pointless...

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My Doctor friends would disagree about it not being "wholly relevant", as it took them over three times the time he spent studying to become fully qualified…;)

Also, the fact that it was nearly 40 years ago, and he’s never used it since, not sure how relevant his "knowledge" is - 40 years ago I could speak Russian and knew the location, size, and capabilities of most of the Soviet Armed Forces in Europe; now, not so much…:D

He’s really not more qualified than "Karen"…

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He really is... None of the stuff related to his background suggests he knows less about how a virus or a vaccine works than someone with 2 GCSEs who thinks it's all a 5G hoax.



As I understand a significant amount of the later years of medical study are working on specialisations, so yes, they would have done a lot of work on knowing how to be a surgeon or an oncologist or a heart specialist or even to have sufficient basic expertise for general practice. But three years is equivalent study to an undergraduate degree in another discipline, which is enough in itself to equate to a qualification in those places.


You may or may not have a valid point about the time - though given the stuff he pops up especially on twitter, it's clear he does still read and understand what's discussed in journals, papers, publications, so maybe he has (or hasn't until recently) kept fingers in his knowledge even if he isn't using it as a profession. And we have no idea why he dropped out - he may have been interested in medicine, but having seen general practice or whatever when on his placements decided it wasn't what he wanted to do for a career. (This isn't uncommon - I did chemistry at university and about the end of 2nd year didn't really want to end up with a career in it, but given I was on a 3 year course, just carried on with it anyway to get the paperwork it'd have been a waste to change course anyway - and whilst I haven't used it formally since, I can still understand - almost 20 years later - the stuff we were taught, and it might just take a minimal amount of catching up reading texts etc to get up to the same standard again).

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What high numbers would that be ?

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I've had both doses (back in the summer) & I've just had my booster today (I had Pfizer)

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A 70+ years had the booster yesterday,12hrs in starting to feel localised jab pain which I didn't have with the earlier AZ injections.

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Got a text invite for my booster shot. Booked on-line today for 18th December pm. Selected Chichester again, Northgate car park, as the alternative of Brighton City centre on the run up to Xmas would be a nightmare especially with the Green's hate the motorist policies.

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Got my booster yesterday, and booked wife for December, I've had Pfizer for all three, she had AZ last time.

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That doesnt sound like a 6 month gap ?

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Just had my booster shot (booked for tomorrow morning) cancelled by email.

Found another centre 25 minutes away in Greengates with a vacant slot at 10:55am tomorrow, so booked that instead.

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Summer could potentially include the end of May, which is... just. Depends how you define the seasons. Plus I thought the gap was 5 months not 6.

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You can book an appointment after 5 months(152 days), but it won't be until after 6 months(182 days).
Link

Received a text last week, and booked an appointment for next week.

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Its six months, they checked that with me at my appointment.
MadGamers post was back on 9th Oct, so he should have had his previous ones before 9th April, definitely not Summer. :)

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My 6-month gap is up today (26th), but I was called-forward for the jab 2 days ago (24th) but actually had it yesterday (25th).

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Had the Moderna booster today.

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Booked in for the 21st December for booster.

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Rescheduled, had my booster this morning (Moderna)

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Booked my booster early this morning before the rush started, going on Saturday 17:00 :disturbd:

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We booked ours a couple of weeks ago, when HMG first announced it was reducing the gap from 6 to 3 months. Sturgeon never actually copied that move, until it was forced on her this week, but the date we got (later this week) is less than a month short of our 6 month gap anyway. I decided to take a chance that 1. Scotland would probably have reduced the the gap by then and 2. The vaccinator probably wouldn’t have quibbled over a couple of weeks anyway.

Very very glad I didn’t decide to be a good Boy Scout and not get an appointment until January … I suspect going online and trying to change it to any date sooner might have been a frustrating experience today.

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Our twins got their boosters today in a "Pfizer MVC" but they were given "Moderna Spikevax"?

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Alot of people seem to be getting Moderna Spikevax.

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Got my booster on Wednesday. Last 2 were Moderna so this one probs will be too. Seems to be the main one now.

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I got my booster last month and all three have been Pfizer.I am thankful I have no need to be joining the huge long queues currently shown on the news.
Good luck to all those currently stuck in such queues.

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I had the Comirnaty jab as my booster a few weeks ago. Felt a bit queasy during my 15 mins post jab sit down but nothing too bad, also a little shivery a day or so later and my arm was sore to the touch for maybe a week.

The only complaint (if you can call it a complaint) was the leaflet we were all given was the one designed for primary & secondary doses which said you should get your second dose 28 days later, which may confuse some people.

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JUst had my booster yesterday evening. Had the worst nights sleep, tingling sensations, hot and cold and an arm that feels like it has been punched many times.


Didnt have any issues with the first two. Could have really stayed in bed this morning.

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I’ve been the same, dead/very painful arm. Hot and cold and a bunged up head/nose.

Sure it will clear in a couple of days

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Had booster (Pfizer) a couple of weeks back topping up AZ mains. None caused any real problems, slight tenderness in arm and a bit tired for a day or so.

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We both had our Pfizer booster jab this morning.

Hopefully there won't be any side effects.

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The what ?

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That's what I thought when I saw the sign saying what the 'Jab Of The Day' was, turns out it's the easy trips of the tongue name for Pfizer-BioNTech!

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Short for "Covid mRNA Immunity". One day that'll be handy in a pub quiz.

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Missus and I got Pfizered this evening. Left arm feels like it’s been punched but otherwise ok.

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Had my booster on Saturday. Apart from a slight ache in my arm the next day no other effects. Pfizer.

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My daughter and son-in-law got their booster jabs yesterday(both aged 34) at a walk in clinic - no queuing.

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Very quiet on Saturday when I took my son in. I hope people aren't avoiding a jab as they think it will make the ill for Christmas. Having covid has the potential to make them a lot sicker. (Or may its those anti vaxers doing their block booking trick, little tinkers....)

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Had mine Saturday, was unimpressed tbh, turned up half hour early and the queue was massive, informed the staff I had an appointment and was told so did everyone else, no walk ins, the booster itself for me was a lot better than the vaccines, sore arm and feeling a bit groggy was about it

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Had my Booster today, first two were the Pfizer with no problems at all, today was Moderna arm is sore as hell

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Closing this now.
Please see the booster thread.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33710685