• Neuromancer
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    72 years ago

    My friend developed Alopecia from the flu vaccine. He doesn’t get that flu vaccine but does the others.

    I got a heart condition from the Covid booster. As such I don’t do boosters anymore but I still do other vaccines.

    I’m very pro vaccine in general. They’ve never been a guarantee they’ll stop an outbreak but they greatly reduce the chances of most diseases spreading or making you seriously ill.

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      2 years ago

      I’m actually the same way, I’m one of those that got myocarditis after the vaccine, but I also understand that nothing is side affect free so while it stinks for me I still 100% support the use of vaccines… Thankfully after a few weeks/months the heart palpitations stopped.

      I mean … Polio anyone? No? Chickenpox? Oh yeah that’s right, vaccines. They actually worked.

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        32 years ago

        Bingo. Same here and it caused some blood pressure issues.

        I just changed medications to see if the palpitations went away and it appears they did. So that’s good.

        Blood pressure is better but it’s mediated. I want to go off that next.

        Chickenpox. Ahem. We didn’t have a vaccine for that when I was a child. We just caught it and were miserable for a few weeks. I wish we’d had the vaccine. That was awful.

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          12 years ago

          Chickenpox. Ahem. We didn’t have a vaccine for that when I was a child. We just caught it and were miserable for a few weeks.

          I’m sorry to tell you that’s not what happened.

          You had chickenpox for a few weeks whilst the shingles bedded down nice and cosy in your nerves ready to strike again when your immune system is down. It’s not over and it’ll be worse when it comes back.

          • Neuromancer
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            22 years ago

            We have vaccines for shingles now. We just didn’t have it when I was a kid.

            Parents use to have chicken pox parties.

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              22 years ago

              There’s a chicken pox vaccine that prevents you from catching it yes. The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of the shingles you already have breaking through into active infection for about 10 years and then isn’t effective a second time. (Currently) there’s no not-having-shingles once you’ve got it.