Cudedog wrote:Redetotry wrote:Were you told when you received your shingles shot that you have to wait four weeks to get the Covid vaccine? My friends were told that by a pharmacist at a Walgreens store here. It is sad there was no plans for distributions. Also here college professors can't qualify along with other educators which is really frightening. One of our professor friends is 63 and they won't let him sign up. I think I would just retire!
Thanks for pointing this out, BJ.
During my search for the Covid vaccine, I also ran across the statement that one could not get the Covid vaccine if one had received any other kind of vaccination four weeks prior to any scheduled Covid vaccine date.
I don't think this is well known.
This statement was in small print, hidden among all kinds of other statements. If I hadn't been carefully reading everything, I probably would have missed it.
It caught my eye because I had recently gone in for a tetanus vaccination (accidentally punctured my hand on a rusty something - in checking my records found I was a couple years overdue for a tetanus booster).
Scary to go into a medical facility during this time - but I wore two masks (an N-95 covered by a cloth mask) and swimmer's goggles (I know I looked weird, but it is known that Covid can enter the body via the eyes, so I didn't care how strange I looked).
Weighing the chance I might contact Covid over the chance I might contact tetanus was a bit of a mental struggle, but it only took me an hour or so to decide to go for the tetanus vaccine.
Sweated it for a couple of weeks after the injection, but have remained healthy. Whew!
Personal question (of the "none of my business" variety - I ask only because you mentioned it): Did the flare-up begin before or after you received the vaccine?
Anne
I don't mind you asking but not the flare up started around October and was on and off but this hit full force about 2 weeks ago.
