COVID jab

[VioletViolet]

Hello , do you all have your COVID jabs? I'm a newly diagnosed Type 2 but diet controlled (HbA1C is now 42) . Do I need my COVID jab if I continue to control my blood sugar with diet? I'm happy to have my flu jab but just wonder what you all feel about COVID injections. Thank you !

 

[Antje77]

Got mine yesterday.
No-one can tell you if you need it.

 

[In Response]

I have the jab for two reasons
- although having well managed diabetes has not been shown to increase the risk of covid, when I did get it, it made my diabetes harder to manage and raised my BG.
- if my chance of getting covid is reduced, the chance of me passing it on to someone else who may be more at risk, is also reduced.

 

[JoKalsbeek]

Hello , do you all have your COVID jabs? I'm a newly diagnosed Type 2 but diet controlled (HbA1C is now 42) . Do I need my COVID jab if I continue to control my blood sugar with diet? I'm happy to have my flu jab but just wonder what you all feel about COVID injections. Thank you !

Covid, like any other virus, can really muck up your blood sugars. And contrary to what virii usually do, Covid can potentially cause a hypo-ish drop rather than a rise in some. Personally I'd be getting the jab again, if I didn't get C19 every three months or so. I come in a lot of places where ill people tend to be, so I get "lucky" often. My antibodies are present and accounted for. But if you haven't had an infection recently, with all the mutations and whatnot, I'd seriously consider getting it... I know I'd have gotten a jab scheduled on the 16th of September, when they became available again in the Netherlands for the "vulnerables", if I hadn't had an infection in the past few months. In the end though, the choice is yours. Just some things to consider, you know. Recent infections, how are your antibodies doing, etc.

Good luck deciding!
Jo

 

[lessci]

If I was offered it, I would take it

 

[Melgar]

I’ll be getting my COVID shot. We have been advised here in Canada to wait until the fall when new batches of vaccines are out with the new strains. We are lucky here as we still get free COVID testing kits. I hear you don’t in the UK.
I get the shots as I developed sepsis when I had pneumonia (Strep bacteria) a few years back. I never want to go through that nightmare again.

 

[Margarettt]

Hello , do you all have your COVID jabs? I'm a newly diagnosed Type 2 but diet controlled (HbA1C is now 42) . Do I need my COVID jab if I continue to control my blood sugar with diet? I'm happy to have my flu jab but just wonder what you all feel about COVID injections. Thank you !

Hello @VioletViolet I'm also hba1c 42. I've had covid a few times (the nature of the beast with my job) Having covid puts my BG numbers up a little but the jab never does and I get the covid/flu combo yearly. I think everyone is different but I'd far rather have the protection than the disease.

 

[Sarah69]

I’ve not had any Covid jabs since the 3rd one which gave me a banging headache for a whole week and I wasn’t able to move my arm for a few days after. don’t have a flu jab either.

 

[Chris24Main]

I'll be getting mine in a week or so, no question in my head about it.
The actual virus will play havoc with your insulin, therefore blood glucose. (sorry, I should say could - no way I can know what Covid will do to you..)
But - as everyone is saying, this is a personal choice.

 

[Angela64]

I’ve not had any Covid jabs since the 3rd one which gave me a banging headache for a whole week and I wasn’t able to move my arm for a few days after. don’t have a flu jab either.

I reacted like this, had to go to bed for 2 days, not keen on either, got too many medical considerations.