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COVID vaccine

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

Fairygodmother

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.
 
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