General Chat

I had a text from my surgery and a letter (after I had booked my appointment at the surgery,) from NHS offering me appointments at various pharmacies.

I’ve never had a letter, even about the flu jabs. May be it ‘s because it is because I always went and asked when the surgery was going to do them. However , my daughter did use to get letters about the flu jab, she hadn’t known she was eligible and agreed to start having the jab when covid arrived. Now all she gets is the text.

I’ve only ever had the one text about the flu/covid jabs each time.

Well... the NHS could save quite a bit of money if they stopped sending out reminder letters to all and sundry.
I've had 2 recently. The 1st to be fair was when I had made appointments, but hadn't yet had my jabs.
Yesterday, I received another reminder detailing how to make an appointment for both flu and Covid vaccines, even though I've already had both, :-S

It is possible it could apply so as well to remember.

Ann, I don't know if it applies in England, I was referring to the NHS Highland booking form. That'll teach me to stop abbreviating boardnames, but If it helps anyone else, that's a bonus. :-) :-)

Thanks for the tip Andy's mum. I will try and remember that.

OH and I had our jabs this morning and so far have no side effects. not even sore arms. I asked about having both in one aem and the chap said I could if I wanted but the reason they put them in separate arms is so that if there are side effects you know which vaccine is causing them.

Incidentally, AG, if your online booking is like ours, write your NHS No. at the top because the first thing they do is look up your records. Both the nurses who did us were very grateful that we had done that, as it saved them a couple of minutes and that adds up over a whole day!

My surgery juts had leaflets on the counter has you went in never notified about covid jab but went down to the Port yesterday and had both one in each arm bit tired today and the arm where I had the covid is sore but that’s all

No Vera I thought you were not being critical I knew that you had tried to find out. Who knows what is right? Not even the NHS I guess, they don’t seem to have joined up communication as they are still inviting me for vaccination even though I already have an appointment at our surgery..

Oh dear AnnG. I hope you didn't think I was being critical. That wasn't my intention. Your surgery might well be more on the ball than ours. The reason I was trying to check up about the 10 week effectiveness was so I could ask our surgery if I could have my jab in a month or two. Stupid me, it wasn't till we were on the way home that I remembered about it and it was too late then. OH and I both had a bad bout of flu in 2018 but we didn't get it till the middle of March so the chances are any jab would have been wearing off by then anyway.

Like you Shirley we both got Covid after 5 jabs. OH wasn't too bad but, like you, I was knocked sideways by it. We had no idea where we had picked it up as none of our contacts had it at the time. Someone said to me that it wasn't worth me having all the jabs if I still got it but I just wondered how much worse it would have been if I hadn't had them.

I think you meant September :-D :-D

Had my flu jab at docs surgery on Thursday

Got a sore and painful arm at the jab site but no side effects

Even though I had 5 covid jabs I got covid in feb from going out with the lunch club I belong to

Four of us sitting side by side all went down with it so we think was staff hanging over us serving and removing plates

Was very very unwell for first three days and got the most horrendous cough

Was a job to even crawl out of bed to go to the bathroom

So got covid jab nos 7 on the 18th oct

Well I am sorry i was honestly only saying what a very senior and responsible nurse at our surgery told me, and she had been told this. She went on to suggest having the jab in October so that the protection is there for the worst months of the flu and that is when most of the flu jabs are being done at our surgery October. I suspect that it will be most effective then at the highest likelihood of flu being around so it is fine by me. Mine and many people I know is on 14th October with my Covid jab. Incidentally my daughter had her two jabs in one arm, apparently that is ok if they are an inch apart.

Well, the info was wrong and it was two jabs but you could opt just to have one - not sure which one. But we both had both this morning.
It was also Phizer.

Rang my friend who had been told it was one jab so is now looking into making appointments. She doesn’t want them together as she had a problem last time.

Lucky you Names - only 1 jab. We have just had ours, one in each arm. Our appointment was booked when we had our last Covid jab in April. I forgot to ask about the effectiveness of the flu jab over time but googling has mostly said it's effective for about 6 months but the effectiveness starts to tail off after 3 months. I haven't found anywhere mentioning the 10 weeks AnninGlos was told at her surgery.

I always ask what Covid vaccine they are using. In April it was a French manufactured one and the nurse said that they used that because it seemed to offer the best protection against the new spring variants. Now they have gone back to Pfizer. which is fine by me.

Just been told that our surgery is using a n all in one jab. So only 1 sore arm instead of 2.

We get our flu jabs at the weekend, but they have been booked in for a few weeks. We got texts yesterday to book a Covid jab which we have done, but that is not until October

Both got our texts this morning and having the jabs weekend after next.

In my area, one day last week 80 people apparently failed to turn up for flu/covid clinic!!

We haven't had any letters, texts or emails so daughter tel and they said, if you want an appointment, you have to request one by email???

Doesn't seem very organised to me. However when I had the 1st booster, I got Pleuresy and was really unwell so I'm not having any more jags.

Florence in the hebrides

Our surgery has announced it will start sending out appointment messages at the end of the week, so hopefully we will hear the following week.