When I booked online on Monday, I was surprised to find that only one Bath GP practice was on the list and all the others were pharmacies in villages around Bath, mainly to the west. As we'd already planned to visit a nearby town on the Tuesday, we just picked a convenient one in that direction.
Presumably there will be others added to the list in due course.
Is there anyone on here who feels absolutely crap the day after their Covid boosters? I have to have mine when I know there is nothing planned for the following day. My son and daughter are exactly the same.
My brother and me are both in our 30's and were fine with the first two (Pfizer) but after the third (moderna) we felt awful. We both had the most vivid nightmares and it seemed like a fever and felt really crud for quite some time after.
My parents just booked theirs and they are going away on holiday next week but booked them for after the holiday even though they could have had them before, just in case.
There is a marked placebo affect of vaccines. Up to 15% of people given saline develop typical vaccine like side effects. So maybe our immune systems aren't so different.
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I think it's more mind-over-matter. What the mind expects can manifest in the body. I don't know how though (maybe no-one does). I think I'd get a sore arm from a sailine injection just the same as for vaccines because I think that's a localised physical effect of having "something" injected. Systemic "fluey" symptoms from a placebo vaccine would be mind-over-matter. It would be interesting to know whether the placebo effect extends as far as developing antibodies to the thing you thought you'd had a vaccine for. That would be quite something!
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I can understand the mind over matter with the boosters but for the first vaccination we didn't know how our bodies were going to react as we hadn't had one before, does that make sense?
Fortunately my son has his next week, after the muddle up where NHS told him, and passed on info to pharmacy and surgery that he was cured, It has filtered through that they’d made a mistake. At last it’s got through that he isn’t and never will be.
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I can understand the mind over matter with the boosters but for the first vaccination we didn't know how our bodies were going to react as we hadn't had one before, does that make sense?
There's a phenomenon called 'The Weber Effect' where early vaccination patients report a higher incidence of side effects, basically because they are more vigilant.
I learnt about this because there was a report looking at side effects in certain batches of vaccine, which didn't take this into consideration, and of course went viral among conspiracy nuts.
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Presumably there will be others added to the list in due course.
My brother and me are both in our 30's and were fine with the first two (Pfizer) but after the third (moderna) we felt awful. We both had the most vivid nightmares and it seemed like a fever and felt really crud for quite some time after.
My parents just booked theirs and they are going away on holiday next week but booked them for after the holiday even though they could have had them before, just in case.
So maybe our immune systems aren't so different.
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Fortunately my son has his next week, after the muddle up where NHS told him, and passed on info to pharmacy and surgery that he was cured, It has filtered through that they’d made a mistake. At last it’s got through that he isn’t and never will be.
I learnt about this because there was a report looking at side effects in certain batches of vaccine, which didn't take this into consideration, and of course went viral among conspiracy nuts.