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Confused about this. I have had this at my GP the other day but according to NHS Type 1 are no longer eligible!
 
Yes, for this round of vaccines diabetes alone is not sufficient to meet the criteria.
 
DiabeticDi said:
Confused about this. I have had this at my GP the other day but according to NHS Type 1 are no longer eligible!
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You may be interested in this thread @DiabeticDi, there’s some links to more info on the criteria etc from the NHS pages

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Thread 'Covid Vaccine Eligibility'

Nice guidelines state that people with diabetes mellitis are at risk from progression to severe infection should they catch covid.
Does this mean that everyone with Type One is eligible for the vaccine?
I’m seventy-six and was given flu and Covid vaccines on Saturday, so I’m asking this for all the under-seventy-fives.

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I was told you had to be 75 to get the Covid jab. I'm a few months short. I've been wondering if it worth having privately.
 
I have Covid at the moment, with a positive home test and as it is about the 6th time now I wonder if I am just getting used to it or if I was always one of the ones who were not going to suffer badly.
Years ago after the first jab, the one from Astra Zeneca, I was really ill - high fever and swollen lower legs and feet. Subsequent run ins with the actual virus were far less alarming - though eating yoghurt and tasting my mother's beef stew was one of the more surreal events in my life to date.
I will be 75 next April, at least, I have every intention of being - so I might consider another jab as the 2nd was entirely without incident - though I suspect they might have given me plain saline - the syringe was one of a small number on a different tray on a different table to the one they used on my husband, which came from a half empty tray close at hand.
 
Resurgam said:
I have Covid at the moment, with a positive home test and as it is about the 6th time now I wonder if I am just getting used to it or if I was always one of the ones who were not going to suffer badly.
Years ago after the first jab, the one from Astra Zeneca, I was really ill - high fever and swollen lower legs and feet. Subsequent run ins with the actual virus were far less alarming - though eating yoghurt and tasting my mother's beef stew was one of the more surreal events in my life to date.
I will be 75 next April, at least, I have every intention of being - so I might consider another jab as the 2nd was entirely without incident - though I suspect they might have given me plain saline - the syringe was one of a small number on a different tray on a different table to the one they used on my husband, which came from a half empty tray close at hand.
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Hi,

I went for a flu jab last year expecting to have Covid vax too? (At the same time.)
Like I had the year before..

Are you certain you didn’t just have a flu vaccine?
Does your husband have underlying conditions putting him on a more vulnerable list? (Warranting a different dose?)
 
I am only 68, but I have asthma, diabetes and myeloma cancer (currently in remission) and have been called to have my Covid jab. Last year my wife was invited to have the jab in her own right (breast cancer), but not this year. I really can't see the point in giving me the jab and not my wife, who is my carer. Oh well!
 
becca59 said:
An error me thinks.
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That's quite likely @becca59 . Four years ago I had no notification from the NHS, unusually. I happened to meet a transplant patient in our village who said "Have you been down to the surgery for a jab yet"
"No"
"I'd get down there now, they're dishing out Covid jabs for the likes of you and me."
It was unofficially sorted by my doctor speaking to my transplant coordinator.
 
Jaylee said:
Hi,

I went for a flu jab last year expecting to have Covid vax too? (At the same time.)
Like I had the year before..

Are you certain you didn’t just have a flu vaccine?
Does your husband have underlying conditions putting him on a more vulnerable list? (Warranting a different dose?)
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The occasion was the second vaccination in the pandemic, a mass vaccination in the open air with strict separation as well. Definitely not 'flu', and I was given a ticket with the same batch number as my husband.
It was supposed to be the two of us together for the same thing - and it wasn't. No explanation, just a look between the one doing the jabs and the one doing the recording when I described my really bad reaction to the first one.
 
I don't understand this either... sounds like you've been lied to or this is an NHS postcode lottery situation. I got invited by my GP like I do every year this year and I've had both flu and covid jabs at pharmacy after booking my appointment through the NHS appointment service. As far as I'm aware, I've always qualified for the jabs because I'm type 1 diabetic for my entire life... not because of my age, nor being autistic.
I hope a local service can help you sort this mess out. I'd consider changing GPs over this because it counts as patient neglect imo.
 
had flu jag only a couple of days ago. clinic were doing both flu & covid criteria different :/
 
Now I've had some time to think some more about it, I've usually put this stuff down to qualifying for free prescriptions, not because of having a particular condition. We're in trouble if the free prescriptions conditions listing is changing after so long, but like I said, I've had mine with no issue so I'm guessing not.
 
MeepGenesis said:
Now I've had some time to think some more about it, I've usually put this stuff down to qualifying for free prescriptions, not because of having a particular condition. We're in trouble if the free prescriptions conditions listing is changing after so long, but like I said, I've had mine with no issue so I'm guessing not.
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Just because I suspect the vast majority of people who get the flu/covid,etc jabs have free prescriptions doesn't mean its the free prescriptions make you qualify.
I'm sure I saw the updated covid guidelines and I'm sure diabetes does not qualify you by itself, but other things may well do - or a combination of things I dont know, or if you local area is just ignoring the changes this time and just giving them out to whoever had them before

So no just because they may not be offering free covid jabs to diabetics doesnt mean any changes to our free prescriptions
 
After looking here: https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/COVID-19-vaccine/

Okay, so now I've had a memory jog about my jabs appointment that might be helpful to this discussion if people want to seek jabs.

While I was having my jabs done, the pharmacist asked me about my weakened immune system before proceeding. I tend to get asked about my immune system by other people because I always still wear a mask to protect myself from covid when I go out only because of just being type 1 and not wanting my body to be messed up by covid illness. My immune system is fine I think... it's certainly been enthusiastic enough to cause the type 1 diabetes...

ANYWAY so when he guessed about my weakened immune system, I did my usual reply that I was wearing my mask because of my type 1 diabetes, because y'know, I can get seriously sick from flu and/or covid.

He didn't say anything after this reply, but with this interaction in mind, you might be right - maybe he didn't care enough about being strict about these new rules to argue/debate and just wanted to protect his customer, or make a sale of jabs for profits. Who knows. I was clueless about the change to qualification so I can't been seen as manipulative. This was just a typical experience for me, same as previous years.

If so, do we need to pretend we've got weakened immune systems or something? I dunno.
Either way, it's really backwards we're facing this at all. I hope y'all can get the jabs you want and really need.
 
I’m in Canada so different rules. We still have access to free Flu and Covid shots , depending on your province. I’m in B.C. so thankfully it’s still free. It goes by age. At the moment it’s 65 upwards, but I get to go early as I had sepsis pneumonia a few years back , so that is considered a risk for complications.

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I posted this on another thread about vaccines but might help here. ...

Re who is eligible for the COVID vaccine this time round, the NHS is only offering COVID vaccines to those aged 75 years and over, those in a care home and those who are immunosupressed.

Unfortunately Diabetes is not included this time.

If it helps, Eligibility criteria for this year is on page 32 and the list of who is included under immunosupressed is on page 24, and 26 of this document, which is the 'Green book' which all clinicians should be following when vaccinating patients:


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Plus Partha Karr the lead diabetes clinician did a recording to view on Facebook and Twitter explaining that Type one diabetes is not included this year. It’s a decision taken way above his head and certainly above clinicians choosing to ignore the guidelines and inoculate people anyway.
 
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