_Matt_ said:
John Bennett said:
kevkevkev said:
I honestly dont think i will have it. I have had 4 weeks furlough since last march. No masks until you could find them in june? Still had to go to work.. Got sent the letter but of course you cant book unless you want to travel 50 miles away. By the time october comes youll need another jab anyway.
When you get the text message from the local docs, you should be able to get a local slot to within a 15 minute timescale.
Covid does loads of nasty stuff we don't understand yet. It put my in-laws in hospital and I know people still f**ked-up after months. Plus the vaccine reduces the chances of you spreading it.
Yeah I agree. Slightly different but I had covid around 2 months ago and even though I wasn't to ill with it I was dizzy for around 4 weeks after, fatigue for around 5 weeks, no smell/taste for around 7 and my tinnitus is now louder than ever. I don't know if that counts as long covid but a lot of people do suffer badly with long covid which is something most people don't think about once they decide they're no longer at risk of ending up in hospital.
Well its great to hear how many of you seem to be getting the short but quite uncomfortable side effects with no real harm, for 24-48 hrs same as i had with my first jab a few weeks ago BUT I WOULD RECOMMEND GETTING JABBED my daughter is a coroner/pathologist and mainly does the silent witness stuff for the police etc in Glasgow but seen lots of covid death too
I... exactly like Matt have had Covid with all the similar symptoms , only i had it early on during the first lockdown APRIL 2020 knocked off my feet with serious pneumonia - like illness sweats for a couple of days weak breathless cough for a week or two till i sprained my ribs in my back trying to cough with no breath at all .... the second week i lost taste and smell for a while and was so weak for about 7-10 weeks dizzy and unable walk far just a few yards , without getting out of breath and fatigued to the point of crashing out on the sofa a few times a day..... wicked illness .....
4 a.m. on the thursday of the first week i was so in pain in my chest and back , unable to take reasonable breaths , i was literally minutes from phoning an ambulance but .... the wife and I beleive if i had , i would have been ventilated and possibly would not be here today as other organs sometimes shut down if you get coma induced........ and my daughter agrees....... i eventually recovered at home and even worked 16-18 weeks last summer july-november
more necessity than want, as my partner broke his leg in august and was laid up all that time at his home..lucky to have his wife working from home while also playing nursemaid
i had my first AZ about 8 weeks ago and the next day awoke feeling i was going to be sick and very lethargic with a bit of a temperature and felt like my head was in a vice and stayed in bed tired till mid afternoon but ok the third day and since ...... but like to hear of others getting a bit of tinnitus (i have worked in noisy areas a lot all my life) and fatigue still , i always had a bit of whistling but since covid it got terrible as does my tiredness especially in the evening , of course "it could be my age" as i find it hard move some days , nah !
but other days i have the truck jacked up getting the ceased brake drums off (not helped by a year of standing even with the handbrake off) with a heavy duty puller and lump hammer and last week set up the arcade ready to open from today, tho i dont need be there except to repair and sort problems with machines......i hacked the conifer hedge down a foot or two yesterday so now just await second jab which delayed for me as they missed me in group 5 during february i had no letter till my wife in group 6 got hers and by then the local GP had stopped doing un-symptomatic old folk and we got in together quite local at our Winsford Morrisons supermarket pop up clinic . easy straight in no discomfort on the day and all done in about 4 minutes
SO ... even tho i am weakened i seem to be getting back to full strength slowly ... BUT would not wish to get it again or watch anyone else get it either........ we know people who have died locally and think whay a lonely way to go ......... snatched from home by medics never to see loved ones again unless you get over the effects ok.... may be better to be cautious ??
