Got Vaxxed!

[biku324]

Fall again, and my wife and I drifted down to our local pharmacy and got flu, COVID, and pneumonia vaxxed today. Got the shingles Vax earlier in the summer and will get the second shot in 30 more days.

For those of you who haven't had shingles, I'd suggest you avoid them. Got shingles earlier this year that started under an eyelid and went up onto my bald head in a slanted line. Truly annoying!

 

[SMSgt]

I've had them all, and from now on I only get the flu shot. Them snowbirds bring more than their luggage south with them.

 

[MelvinWalker]

No way

 

[TX-Dennis]

Yeah, shingles sucks. I got the shingrix a couple years ago. First dose kicked my butt - body aches, fever, lethargy. Second was a piece of cake.

I get the flu shot every October. Had pneumonia shot years back. Might be time for another even though I was told back then that it was good for life. Not sure I'll get another dose of the Covid vax, though. While (obviously) not an antivaxxer, I do have some misgivings about that one.

 

[Mister Coffee]

COVID-19 shot last week. Flu shot this week. I like to savor the pleasure.

I've had shingles, but not near my eyes. Must be really tough.

 

[GnarlsR2]

Fall again, and my wife and I drifted down to our local pharmacy and got flu, COVID, and pneumonia vaxxed today. Got the shingles Vax earlier in the summer and will get the second shot in 30 more days.

For those of you who haven't had shingles, I'd suggest you avoid them. Got shingles earlier this year that started under an eyelid and went up onto my bald head in a slanted line. Truly annoying!

I'm just curious... do you happen to know the name of the vaccines?
Did you get all three injections at the same time?

Thank you.

 

[biku324]

I'm just curious... do you happen to know the name of the vaccines?
Did you get all three injections at the same time?

Thank you.

Nope; the pharmacy uses the (voluntary) state vaccine registry to make sure you're getting consistent brands. And yes, I got all 3, one at a time. That's how we've done these shots for a few years now.

Added: I forgot my shot card when going a-contracting overseas, so they gave me nine (yup, 9) vaccines in one sitting. Surprisingly had no ill aftereffects and have never worried about more than one at a time since.

 

[biku324]

COVID-19 shot last week. Flu shot this week. I like to savor the pleasure.

I've had shingles, but not near my eyes. Must be really tough.

The shingles episode was more annoying than painful, but it took weeks and weeks to go away.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

No way

A BIG TIMES TWO..............

 

[biku324]

A BIG TIMES TWO..............

I ignored flu shots for years until I got the flu at age 55 or 56. Never again if I can help it!

 

[djohns6]

I've had all of the recommended old geezer vax and now I only get the Flu shot and the Tetanus booster when it comes due .

 

[GnarlsR2]

Nope; the pharmacy uses the (voluntary) state vaccine registry to make sure you're getting consistent brands. And yes, I got all 3, one at a time. That's how we've done these shots for a few years now.

Added: I forgot my shot card when going a-contracting overseas, so they gave me nine (yup, 9) vaccines in one sitting. Surprisingly had no ill aftereffects and have never worried about more than one at a time since.

" they gave me nine (yup, 9) vaccines in one sitting"

OMG!!!

 

[biku324]

" they gave me nine (yup, 9) vaccines in one sitting"

OMG!!!

You had a choice if you didn't have proof of vaccination (the yellow 'shot card') - get'em all or go home. That was the old DynCorp, aka the 'Evil Empire,' which has been folded into (finally) today's Amentum.

I got 5 in my right shoulder and my fingers started to twitch, so the nurse moved to the left for the last 4.

 

[GnarlsR2]

You had a choice if you didn't have proof of vaccination (the yellow 'shot card') - get'em all or go home. That was the old DynCorp, aka the 'Evil Empire,' which has been folded into (finally) today's Amentum.

I got 5 in my right shoulder and my fingers started to twitch, so the nurse moved to the left for the last 4.

"You had a choice if you didn't have proof of vaccination (the yellow 'shot card') - get'em all or go home."

My choice would be a no-brainer! .... Sorry DynCorp.

 

[biku324]

You either want the job or you don't! You also don't want to catch some of the weird diseases they had in the deployment region.

I'm just glad I still had my smallpox vax scar or I'd have had another of those.

 

[GnarlsR2]

You either want the job or you don't! You also don't want to catch some of the weird diseases they had in the deployment region.

I'm just glad I still had my smallpox vax scar or I'd have had another of those.

I'm old and crotchety and would rather get mauled by a mama grizzly bear than have to get a vaccine.

 

[pasound]

Planning for shots next week. Flu, shingles booster, and the covid booster if the new rules allow. Otherwise, I will have to call my doc for a covid prescription.

 

[biku324]

I'm old and crotchety and would rather get mauled by a mama grizzly bear than have to get a vaccine.

At the time (2012/2013) I was a mere youth of 58, and after over 30 years of lower-wage jobs (policing and teaching), contracting was going to be the last chance to make really good money for a while. Besides, it was a real adventure, complete with travel!

 

[Mainsail]

Last time I got anything injected was around 2002 right before I retired Air Force in 2003.

Despite the billion dollar propaganda machine, I declined the c19 vax and kept my DoD job.

 

[eb07]

I'll pass on big pharma poison.

 

[biku324]

I'll pass on big pharma poison.

Maybe poison. But in the meantime, I'm 70 and have never had polio, smallpox, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, pneumococcal pneumonia, or any other disease for which I've been vaxxed except I've had COVID after the Vax, but wasn't sicker than a cold, and cholera after the vax but we were training ourside by an open municipal sewer in clouds of mosquitos - my case was like moderate diarrhea.

The poisons will likely kill me, but what the heck - I'm too old to die young.

 

[Onomea]

Never met a vaccine I didn't like. You got a vaccine, I'll take it!

Recommend Hepatitis A, too, by the way. My wife's brother-in-law got that a few years ago and wound up in the ICU.

 

[Gunhohulk]

This is an interesting thread to see the different perspectives. I usually don't get involved with stuff like this but what the heck.

I'm in my low 40's, had the normal vaccines my generation got and the last ones I remember were either Tetanus or Hep, can't recall. Don't think I've ever had a flu shot and when the Covid one came around my lack of enthusiasm for needles and experimental nature of MRNA kept me in the sidelines and at this point I think I'm pretty happy I held out. Still would need a ladder to be on the fence with MRNA stuff but would consider other if it made sense.

I have to admit that if I was older or compromised I might have a change of heart in the matter. But I've also had a few near death experiences that were literally a matter of inches which evolved into a philosophy that I may be on borrowed time and desensitized me to certain risks.