Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™)
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I meant the vaccines themselves
The standard is hexavaccine. You should have meant the injections.
Hexavaccine have been thoroughly tested before entering the market for any unexpected interactions between the components. A group of five separate vaccines - less so.
(Creating a topic just in case. I don't actually plan to reply to anything here anymore.)
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@Gąska said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I don't actually plan to reply to anything here anymore.
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@error damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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@Gąska said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I'm just laughing at what seems like "I made this thread so you guys can argue with me over here where I won't be listening."
It's kind of like "How's my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT"
Filed under: Or the suggestion box that's a paper shredder.
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Heh. On Saturday I was talking to a friend who immigrated about 30 years ago or so from Guatemala. He'd gotten vaccinated but hadn't kept any of the documentation. When he tried to enter the US, they told him that he couldn't without proof of vaccination. So he went and got about 20 shots in one day.
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@boomzilla I can't wait to see him featured on the Chubbyemu YouTube channel.
Filed under: He reviews emergency room case-studies, lately with a focus on people trying to win Darwin awards.
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@error said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla I can't wait to see him featured on the Chubbyemu YouTube channel.
An immigrant took every vaccine required to cross the border. This is what happened to his gallbladder.
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@error said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla I can't wait to see him featured on the Chubbyemu YouTube channel.
Filed under: He reviews emergency room case-studies, lately with a focus on people trying to win Darwin awards.
I mean...it was over 30 years ago.
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@error said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Chubbyemu YouTube channel
Speak of the devil...
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
He'd gotten vaccinated but hadn't kept any of the documentation.
I got all the required childhood vaccinations when I was a child, but I have no documentation of any of it. The COVID vaccination a week ago is the only one I have proof of. (The tetanus booster 30 years ago is the only other one I remember with any degree of clarity, only due to how sick I got from it. And I vaguely recall getting a dose of oral (sugar cube) polio vaccine as a child, but I have no idea how old I was or any other details.)
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
So he went and got about 20 shots in one day.
Friend had a handful of shots in short succession (minimum allowed time), ahead of a trip. Those were mainly more specialized ones, recommended for $destination and some that had lapsed. I don't remember the exact number, but I'd guess around 3-4 different ones. I do however remember the recommendation from said friend, which was "don't do that". Apparently it didn't make for a good time.
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@cvi I had to have basically all my shots redone before going to the baltics. Not fun. Both sides of the neck, repeatedly. No reactions, just getting stabbed over and over.
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I got all the required childhood vaccinations when I was a child, but I have no documentation of any of it. The COVID vaccination a week ago is the only one I have proof of. (The tetanus booster 30 years ago is the only other one I remember with any degree of clarity, only due to how sick I got from it. And I vaguely recall getting a dose of oral (sugar cube) polio vaccine as a child, but I have no idea how old I was or any other details.)
Is this why they made such a big fuss back when I was a kid that\ you got your diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis shots all at once? And I think there was a version that added polio to the same shot.
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@da-Doctah said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I got all the required childhood vaccinations when I was a child, but I have no documentation of any of it. The COVID vaccination a week ago is the only one I have proof of. (The tetanus booster 30 years ago is the only other one I remember with any degree of clarity, only due to how sick I got from it. And I vaguely recall getting a dose of oral (sugar cube) polio vaccine as a child, but I have no idea how old I was or any other details.)
Is this why they made such a big fuss back when I was a kid that\ you got your diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis shots all at once? And I think there was a version that added polio to the same shot.
I don't have records from my childhood vaccines, I do know I was given at least polio, MMR, and DTAP (maybe) before going to college. I think there is a meningitis one as well.
IIRC the polio was liquid that you swallow. I'm old enough that some of my childhood friends who were older had the polio shot scar.
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
IIRC the polio was liquid that you swallow.
According to Wikipedia (I looked it up earlier), the oral polio vaccine was replaced by the injected vaccine because a small number of cases of polio were attributed to the oral vaccine; none were ever attributed to the injected vaccine.
I'm old enough that some of my childhood friends who were older had the polio shot scar.
It was smallpox vaccine that left the round scar; the injected polio vaccine was just one small needle, just like any other injected vaccine.
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Wait, so many people with no records? Did you lose them, or did you actually never had any?
How do you track your tetanus vaccination? It should be repeated every 10 years!
Accidentally, I just got a brand new "WHO international vaccination certificate" (yellow booklet) and going through all vaccinations again. But that's mostly because I got a new doctor and she was not impressed by my 40-year old (non-international) one. Ostensibly it was about expired tetanus shot (insurance companies in my home country decided to raise the interval to 20 years in 2009), but I have a feeling that the grease stains were also a factor :-)
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@cvi said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I do however remember the recommendation from said friend, which was "don't do that". Apparently it didn't make for a good time.
Your friend was wise.
Chemically, there's a reason why you shouldn't take several vaccines at once: They all contain a "booster". The weakened virus found in most vaccines is incapable of triggering sufficient immune response to create a lasting impression. So the "infection response" has to be chemically augmented.
The dosage of said booster is kinda important. Depends on the booster. But AIUI the reason why Moderna's vaccines didn't get a permit before the current EUA, is because the booster for the mRNA vaccine is so sensitive to critical dosage. Too little and it does nothing. Too much and it kills you outright.
Edited to add:
So, if you take the exactly wrong jabs within minutes of each other, there's a fair chance of damage to internal organs, or worse. This does not apply to combination shots in the same jab, since they share the same booster.
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was smallpox vaccine that left the round scar; the injected polio vaccine was just one small needle, just like any other injected vaccine.
My vaccination (in school, about age 10) against TB left a scar that I've still got. It's the only one I've had that did that.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Wait, so many people with no records? Did you lose them, or did you actually never had any?
How do you track your tetanus vaccination? It should be repeated every 10 years!
Accidentally, I just got a brand new "WHO international vaccination certificate" (yellow booklet) and going through all vaccinations again. But that's mostly because I got a new doctor and she was not impressed by my 40-year old (non-international) one. Ostensibly it was about expired tetanus shot (insurance companies in my home country decided to raise the interval to 20 years in 2009), but I have a feeling that the grease stains were also a factor :-)
I lost mine because all you used to get was a small booklet with information about which vaccine when. It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly. If not kept in a wallet, it's lost.
I have no documentation of which vaccines I've gotten. I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus, and I've got the standard ones plus a bunch that's good to have when going to shithole countries.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
"WHO international vaccination certificate" (yellow booklet)
I got that one too, assumed that's more common internationally.
It's pretty full, actually, both the page for polio and MMR as well as the page for diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis shots, so my doctor started continuing that on a different page. (So now the last tetanus refresher is put on the page for "turberculin-test results" and the last hepatitis one is put somewhere on the influenca page. )
I'd prefer to get a new one at some point but I have no idea how you'd transfer the labels / stamps.
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@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly.
Well, I did mention the grease stains. Or maybe they were coffee stains? Probably both :-)
I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus,
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy.
I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:For adults above 18 years, dT Booster doses are recommended every 20 years (not funded by the National Health system)
I can understand that tuberculosis vaccine is now considered obsolete, because at least it's curable by antibiotics. But skimping on deadly, incurable disease?
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@topspin said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I'd prefer to get a new one at some point but I have no idea how you'd transfer the labels / stamps.
I assume there will be just one line saying something like "continued from previous pass" and you are supposed to have both if needed (like when moving abroad).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly.
Well, I did mention the grease stains. Or maybe they were coffee stains? Probably both :-)
I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus,
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy.
I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:That's the conventional wisdom, but it might not be completely accurate.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=194541
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly.
Well, I did mention the grease stains. Or maybe they were coffee stains? Probably both :-)
I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus,
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy.
I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:That's the conventional wisdom, but it might not be completely accurate.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=194541
Yes, it's obvious that 10 years is (and always was) "better safe than sorry", but even 30 years is nowhere near "for life".
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy. I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:
Being a bit of a clumsy oaf, I've gotten a tetanus shot every 4-5 years my entire life. Last time I got one was 7 years ago so the dumb shit seems to have slowed down with age. I've been told several times by the doctors that administer it that given how many I've had, I won't need any more for the rest of my life. And then the next time they give me another one just to be safe.
And unless the lifespan of males in my family takes a significant jump, 30 years is probably beyond my expected lifespan.
Heath care in Sweden it's like most tax paid systems. If you're not at risk of dying, care will wait until you are. But if you are at risk of dying, it's pretty good and expedient.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Wait, so many people with no records? Did you lose them, or did you actually never had any?
How do you track your tetanus vaccination? It should be repeated every 10 years!I have no medical records of any kind whatsoever, prior to about 3 years ago. With the exception of proof of vaccination that you need to register your kids in elementary school, all medical records are (or used to be) held by individual doctors or clinics (on paper, until recently). If you changed doctors, you'd sign a consent form for the new doctor to request a copy of your records from the previous one, but that was handled completely between the doctors' offices; at no time did you, the patient, ever possess the records yourself. And now, even if I could remember the names of any previous doctors (most of whom are retired or dead), they purge their records after seven years, so none of those records even exist for me to get a copy.
My recent records are online (sort of; more on that in a moment). They're tied to a particular California medical mega-corporation, although there is a way for me to add results from non-affiliated doctors; I don't know if there is a way for non-affiliated doctors to update records directly in their system. As for those records being sort of online, appointment history, test results, doctors' notes to me, etc. are online; some details are not. If, for example, I have X-rays, the radiologist's interpretation of the X-rays is online; the actual X-ray images are not. At least I don't have access to them. So that limits my ability to walk into the office of a new doctor and say, "Here's everything you need to know about my medical history," although it's still much better than it used to be.
And all the older medical history is just gone — poof — like it never happened.
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Adults can get tetanus and diphtheria vaccine boosters every 30 years instead of the recommended 10 years, a new study suggests.
So, I'm not actually 20 years overdue; I'm right on time. I'm still not exactly eager to get it, though, because of how sick I got from the last one. My immune system emphatically did not like that.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Yes, it's obvious that 10 years is (and always was) "better safe than sorry", but even 30 years is nowhere near "for life".
Depends how old you are...
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@HardwareGeek nice alibi vatperson
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
IIRC the polio was liquid that you swallow.
According to Wikipedia (I looked it up earlier), the oral polio vaccine was replaced by the injected vaccine because a small number of cases of polio were attributed to the oral vaccine; none were ever attributed to the injected vaccine.
I'm old enough that some of my childhood friends who were older had the polio shot scar.
It was smallpox vaccine that left the round scar; the injected polio vaccine was just one small needle, just like any other injected vaccine.
So my memory is definitely misremembering. But yeah, I had older friends with the round scar.
I'm still pretty sure I had an oral polio vaccine in 1989.
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly.
Well, I did mention the grease stains. Or maybe they were coffee stains? Probably both :-)
I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus,
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy.
I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:That's the conventional wisdom, but it might not be completely accurate.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=194541
I got one when pregnant, because they are combo shots and it had whooping cough vaccine that would provide my daughter with ~2 months of protection.
I got the one this year because of the stupid bike fall.
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I can remember roughly forty years ago getting paid to take oneso the place I was selling my plasma to could use me as an incubator for antibodies. Every week when I went in they'd check the level and if it was high enough (which it always was) they'd add a bonus to my donation pay.
(I've had a few since then so the fact that it was forty years ago is only here as a bit of mise-en-scene.)
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Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Edit: I just remembered I had a couple of flu shots when I was in jobs that offered them as a benefit
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
If, for example, I have X-rays, the radiologist's interpretation of the X-rays is online; the actual X-ray images are not. At least I don't have access to them.
They're probably in DICOM format, and that's a truly ghastly stew of vendor extensions. Just… don't go there.
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
So that limits my ability to walk into the office of a new doctor and say, "Here's everything you need to know about my medical history," although it's still much better than it used to be.
And all the older medical history is just gone — poof — like it never happened.
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@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
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@dkf said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
If, for example, I have X-rays, the radiologist's interpretation of the X-rays is online; the actual X-ray images are not. At least I don't have access to them.
They're probably in DICOM format, and that's a truly ghastly stew of vendor extensions. Just… don't go there.
I think eventually we're going to have to support that format. (I work on medical devices)
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Wait, so many people with no records? Did you lose them, or did you actually never had any?
How do you track your tetanus vaccination? It should be repeated every 10 years!
Accidentally, I just got a brand new "WHO international vaccination certificate" (yellow booklet) and going through all vaccinations again. But that's mostly because I got a new doctor and she was not impressed by my 40-year old (non-international) one. Ostensibly it was about expired tetanus shot (insurance companies in my home country decided to raise the interval to 20 years in 2009), but I have a feeling that the grease stains were also a factor :-)
Probably ed. But moving (I had a lot of unplanned moves), changing doctors, I have no idea who my pediatrician was (which I presume I had for the first 10 years of life). Saw different doctors in high school and college, etc. etc.
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
It was about the size of a credit card, made of paper and just a few pages thick. If kept in a wallet, it deteriorated quickly.
Well, I did mention the grease stains. Or maybe they were coffee stains? Probably both :-)
I know I'm set for life regarding tetanus,
I don't think that is a thing. Recommended refresh interval is 10 years, 15-20 years if your insurance company and/or government is particularly stingy.
I am not aware of any country without this.Looks like Sweden is, indeed, deep in the later category:That's the conventional wisdom, but it might not be completely accurate.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=194541
So I may not have needed my recent one.
Though that was given after getting a pretty big gash between my ear and head.
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@HardwareGeek said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
you'd sign a consent form for the new doctor to request a copy of your records from the previous one, but that was handled completely between the doctors' offices; at no time did you, the patient, ever possess the records yourself.
Having been in and out of ERs all over NYC, having numerous orthopedic issues, I have records every where.
But I have been able to get them from pretty much any place I asked for them. The problem is when I don't remember the doctor's name, or they retired and I don't know. I've had one doctor die while I was seeing another doctor out insurance initially, so when insurance changed again, I wanted to go back to him. I see a doctor he recommended and mentioned it, he said he died of a massive heart attack while driving. He was able to get the car off the road and not injure anyone else. He was mid 50s.
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@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I have no idea who my pediatrician was
Oddly enough, that's one doctor whose name I do remember. He wasn't actually a pediatrician, but he was our family doctor almost my entire childhood. He retired when I was in my mid(?)-teens, and I hated going to the doctor after that, because I had to go back to the pediatrics department like a little kid after years of going to a "real" doctor. He was also more than just our family doctor; he and his wife went to our church and were family friends.
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
I never had chickenpox and it's not routinely vaccinated for here, so I'm a bit worried about my kids catching it at school and passing it on to me. I really should talk to my doctor about that
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Lucky indeed, I was out for like three weeks when I caught it at that age. It's supposedly OK up to your early teens.
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?
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@topspin said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?There are vaccines for children available, Germany has recently started giving it to children I think. Sweden was pondering doing that a few years ago.
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@topspin said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?Insurance won't pay for it until then because those are the guidelines.
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@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@topspin said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?There are vaccines for children available, German has recently started giving it to children I think. Sweden was pondering doing that a few years ago.
Children's vax is for chicken pox. People I know who've had bad cases of shingles were older and actually had chicken pox.
My daughter who had the mild case of shingles was vaccinated against chicken pox.
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@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Carnage said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@topspin said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Karla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@boomzilla said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@Jaloopa said in Multivaccines (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?There are vaccines for children available, German has recently started giving it to children I think. Sweden was pondering doing that a few years ago.
Children's vax is for chicken pox. People I know who've had bad cases of shingles were older and actually had chicken pox.
My daughter who had the mild case of shingles was vaccinated against chicken pox.
Vaccines for it seems to be given to immunocompromised children in Sweden.
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Today I'm having my first vaccine in years. I know I had some at school but I've got no idea what you're meant to get as an adult
Flu (as you mentioned), tetanus boosters, eventually shingles and pneumonia. Or lots of stuff if you're traveling to exotic places.
I plan to get the shingles vaccine as soon as I turn 50. I've had too many friends suffer for months due to catching shingles.
My older daughter was 'lucky' to catch it while in college so it was very mild.
Is this something you only get with age or why not get vaccinated earlier?
I don't think I've got a vaccination for this, should I ask for one?Insurance won't pay for it until then because those are the guidelines.
Personally, I couldn't care less about that, but there's probably a reason for the guidelines, which brings me back to the question: is this only dangerous with age or what is the relation to age here?
Maybe weaker immune system with age, as @carnage mentioned?