I'm scared to have the COVID vaccine

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People who have Downs Syndrome cannot be “cured” of it because it’s in their DNA. Nothing can alter it.

Well conclusively I am actually more afraid of having the vaccine than I was before I wrote this thread.

Joe,

I hope I didn't scare you with my anxiety. I'm scared of everything. I have a traumatic stress disorder. I'm equally scared of getting Covid, or having my loved ones get it. I'm OCD about medical research and I micro-analyse treatments which could potentially affect my daughter, because of her fragile health status. I don't know for sure that there is anything to worry about with the vaccine, but because we won't have access to it for months I have time to be cautious. That's my job as a protective single mother of someone who is severely immunocompromised. Her immune system does atypical things, and she has adverse reactions to simple medications (even antibiotics) which nearly killed her as a baby.

Please don't take my caution as a red flag for your own health. Please do your own research. It seems your mother has managed very well with her jab.

I hope that everyone will.

Nobody in this thread personally has made me feel more anxious, and especially not you. I know you and your daughter have pre-existing health conditions and I understand how anxious you are. So please don't blame yourself. It is not you, I promise.
I just thought there would be more reassurance or optimism in this thread that might encourage me to think differently but I still seem reluctant to have the vaccine.
But I'm not aiming it at you, or anyone else in this thread.

If 15 million people get a vaccine, and 37 people get blood clots, it means that 14,999,963 people didn't get blood clots.

Pretty good odds, I would say.

Still, I do believe that 37 is too high a number, and that researchers should find out why the 37 people got blood clots, so they can prevent blood clots in the future.

But....I wouldn't stop the vaccine because of this.

Thanks for clarifying. I know you deal with anxiety, so I wanted to make sure I hadn't added to it.

It takes me a long time to trust anyone or anything, especially big pharma and the mainstream media, and especially when the world economy is at stake. I know there's likely a lot of lies, nepotism, and corruption involved with the virus as well as the vaccine and we may never know the whole truth about either of them. It's a very confusing time, and I think it was smart for you to open this thread.

I suffered a blood clot at 46, which led to a serious stroke in my cerebellum.

Doctors: Wow, that's atypical. Your age was atypical. You weren't a smoker. That's even more atypical! You weren't on birth control. Huh. What caused your blood clot? (They asked me, which I'd say is atypical) .... Your blood clot went to your cerebellum. That's the most atypical place to have a stroke! And your recovery is very atypical too! Can we do research on your brain for being atypical? Oh wait! You have a heart condition! We didn't know that! That's atypical because it should have been detected sooner! Oh wait! You're also autistic? This is seriously atypical. Try these meds ... Oh wait. You're having an atypical response. Maybe try 1/10th the recommended dose for babies. Autistic people have atypical responses to medicine, you know ... Oh wait! You had another stroke? I think it's from cancer. I think it's because your system is atypical. I think you're dying. Oh wait! We were wrong. You're not dying. You're just atypical.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

I won't even describe what my daughter has been through since her atypical and premature birth.

I know 37 blood clots is very few. But as a blood clot survivor it scares me. I'm already known to be one of the atypical population who has these reactions.

I can understand you being concerned knowing your history.

Just your luck you have to go through your quandaries.

No you haven't contributed to my anxiety at all.

It's the media what makes my anxiety worse. A few people get severe side effects and the media broadcasts it in a way that incites fear into the public, then the government wonders why people refuse the vaccine.

I don't do media. I only catch tidbits of news on here. I didn't even know who Meghan Markle was until today.

If possible I'd avoid the media, and do your own research using medical journals or experts in epidemiology.

Double and triple check your sources.

Had the first dose yesterday. Felt like nothing for most of the day. Shoulder started to hurt that evening and was on the painful side when the inflammation reached the shoulder joint and was a bit stiff. I slept okay, and it was looser by morning. It's not bad now. I had no other symptoms.

I was a bit scared to have the covid vaccine to. But for me I ended up having no side effects at all and pretty much toughed it out.

Eric Clapton wrote that the first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine caused his hands and feet to go numb for 12 days!
He believed that he would never play again!
Notwithstanding that the numbness faded and that he is apparently back to normal.,
That is not harmless!
Google Eric Clapton Vaccine!

I’m sorry for the anxiety you’re going through, hun. The media does have an impact, that’s for sure. I was glad to hear that the Johnson & Johnson Single Dose Vaccine was approved for use in the UK today. Though I’m pro vaccines, I have had very unpleasant side effects(but that’s just my annoying body, I’m sure!), and would opt to have the J & J vaccine just the once over the AstraZeneca twice, purely due to the thought of going through the same side effects yearly, on top of the booster shot. I live in hope for an easier aftermath. My eldest son is having his first shot tomorrow. They don’t tell you in advance which shot they’re planning on giving you.

The vast majority of people who took the vaccine do not experience severe side effects----and the side effects rarely last more than a couple of days.

I got shots for all of the childhood stuff as a child decades ago, and in some recent years I get flu shots as an adult. After I got both phizers I had the exact same reaction I get to every other inncocculation I ever had in my middle aged life. That reaction being no reaction whatsoever. Not even a sore arm. Nada.