O_DP_T1
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As per title, will you be taking? How do you feel about it etc.
I'm participating in one of the trials, so you can obviously understand my point of view on this...
As per title, will you be taking? How do you feel about it etc.
One of the theories about how diabetes type 1 develops, is that your own immune system attacks your insulin producing cells. This could particularly happen after your immune system is triggered by a flu or by another disease.
I have no medical background, but I did some research on how RNA vaccins work. As far as I understand, a RNA vaccin makes some of your own cells look like the Corona virus, which triggers your immune system to destroy those cells. Afterwards your immune system should be able to tackle also real Corona virus parts, in case of an actual infection.
I don’t like the part that the Immune system is triggered by the RNA vaccin to destroy some of your own cells, after my immune system already decided to destroy my insulin cells. Could the vaccin not trigger the immune system of T1s to destroy more cells than we want?
btw I‘m not with those crazy anti vaxers, but I’m just a bit worried as this seems to be the first rna based vaccin and I wonder if the long term effects and effects on t1s (and possibly people with other immune diseases) are known well enough.
The Pfizer jab is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine.I thought I read that this Covid vaccine actually used the 'real' virus rather than a mimic? I know people can have several other autoimmune conditions as well as type 1 but a system that attacks the insulin cells does NOT mean that the rest of your autoimmune system isn't working just fine. As for 'could it', yes, who knows!