Covid booster, 4th jab, yes or no?

I've had heart palpitations too. Was prescribed beta blockers for them I think. Also had high blood pressure. The veins in my arms felt tingly for a while. Googled the symptoms and it came up with a load of anti vaxxer stuff. I hadn't had a vaccine at this point. Seems to me they were long COVID symptoms, and that I'd had an asymptomatic infection.

I've had texts saying I should book a COVID appointment, but when I go to book one they say I'm not eligible. I think my GP is overegging the severity of my asthma, as I clearly don't qualify.
 
Was undecided on whether to have my 4th before I got the text from the Docs......booked in for beginning of Dec, just thought why not, no idea if I`ve had covid after I started to get the jabs and haven`t felt bad having them except maybe the 3rd

Do what you feel, seems to affect people differently and at least you have a choice
 
I’ve read lots of people claiming to have had an icy feeling in their veins soon after the vaccine.

I don’t think they realise the vaccine is injected into the muscle and not into the veins 🙄
 
I’ve read lots of people claiming to have had an icy feeling in their veins soon after the vaccine.

I don’t think they realise the vaccine is injected into the muscle and not into the veins 🙄
I had muscle spasms and the Icy feeling with the booster jab , the 2 before felt nothing like that , I certainly wasn't imagining it
 
Had a booster a couple of weeks ago. I don't know what brand it was. They didn't say. Didn't affect me anyway.
 
Got Covid back in April 2020 , was on the verge of going to hospital I was that bad , I lost 10lbs in a week.
A year ago I had my third jab , since then I have been in close contact with 6 (vaccinated) relatives and numerous work colleagues , who days later were diagnosed with covid .
So I feel the fact I had a bad dose has probably given me as much immunity as the jabs .
 
So you don't take any medication at all then?

Or don't you read the potential side-effects for anything else?

I don't think I've ever taken anything where the leaflet in the packet doesn't include anaphylaxis and/or death as potential side-effects.

Even something as innocuous as paracetamol there are big warnings about liver damage if you take too much.

Seems strange that people ignore these risks in everything but Covid medication.
The vaccines are incredibly safe for the overwhelming majority. The UK has had 55 deaths linked to the vaccines out of around 150m doses.

The odds on serious reaction to anaesthetic is far greater but would anyone refuse it if they required an op?

I had covid at the very start, before lockdowns. I ended up in hospital in egypt for 37 days, 4 of them pretty rough, felt like my lungs were tearing apart with every breath I took. The pain was awful. The vaccine would probably prevented that.
 
I've had heart palpitations too. Was prescribed beta blockers for them I think. Also had high blood pressure. The veins in my arms felt tingly for a while. Googled the symptoms and it came up with a load of anti vaxxer stuff. I hadn't had a vaccine at this point. Seems to me they were long COVID symptoms, and that I'd had an asymptomatic infection.

I've had texts saying I should book a COVID appointment, but when I go to book one they say I'm not eligible. I think my GP is overegging the severity of my asthma, as I clearly don't qualify.
I had really bad heart palpitations for about a month after having covid last year. Wasn't pleasant at all really and it took me a while after for my heart rate to get back to normal when doing any physical activity (I do a lot of running)
 
I've had 4 and the last one was different. 1st 3 no problem but this time I had a heavy arm and didn't get off the sofa the following day.
I'd still have a 5th if it's offered next winter.
 
Those heart palpitations are far more likely due to the covid you had than the vaccination. Covid has a lot of delayed effects, heart problems being one of the most common.
What's that based on? I've had covid twice and no vaccines, I'm late 30's and never had heart palpitations. Covid has been like a light cold both times.
 
It’s strange reading this thread, I live in the in South East, I literally don’t know anyone who has had more than a 2nd vaccine, I have a wide circle of family, friends & colleagues of varying ages from teens to 80’s.
The common theme is no-one wants or trusts anymore vaccines
I like this. World is shut down for two years. Everyone gets vaccinated and the world starts again. **** the vaccines. :D
 
I got my first 3 jabs outside of the UK
Will they give me the 4th in UK if they have no records of the other 3 other than my certificates ??
 
So you don't take any medication at all then?

Or don't you read the potential side-effects for anything else?

I don't think I've ever taken anything where the leaflet in the packet doesn't include anaphylaxis and/or death as potential side-effects.

Even something as innocuous as paracetamol there are big warnings about liver damage if you take too much.

Seems strange that people ignore these risks in everything but Covid medication.
This - and in spades. Almost all prescription and even over-the-counter medicines have a list of side effects as long as your arm, many of them up to and including death.

As mentioned in the article below, the death toll in Europe from prescription medicines is in the hundreds of thousands every year.

The European Commission estimates that adverse reactions from prescription drugs cause 200,000 deaths [per year].

Prescription drugs risk

And yet we almost never hear about people getting all up in arms about paracetamol being prescribed, or other equally risky medicines, only about vaccines. I wonder why that is?
 
Report it to VAERS - only a tiny fraction of vax adverse reactions get reported
Why would someone based in the UK report something to the US?

Why wouldn't you recommend reporting to the UK authorities so that something can be done about it (Yellow Card Reporting Tool)?

It just seems to be perfomative rather than actual concern.

It's a surprisingly common trend amongst the "do your own research" crowd to find that they've not done any research whatsoever...
 
Why would someone based in the UK report something to the US?

Why wouldn't you recommend reporting to the UK authorities so that something can be done about it (Yellow Card Reporting Tool)?

It just seems to be perfomative rather than actual concern.

It's a surprisingly common trend amongst the "do your own research" crowd to find that they've not done any research whatsoever...
I always get the two sites mixed up - I’m sure you’ve never made a mistake before though
 
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