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Covid injection

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kevinr

kevinr

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I still haven't had my covid injection TBH I am frightened that it will upset my hard work of keeping my diabetes working properly and my blood sugar levels will go up or I finish up being poorly which I don't want to happen. Why change everything when my diabetes is running smooth I could also finish up having hypos which I hate I don't like the feeling it gives you.
 
Your blood sugars MAY go high or low and you MAy feel a little off for a few days after the jab.
You will DEFINITELY feel very ill and your levels will DEFINITELY be affected if you get Covid.
Vaccines are an odd medication because, unlike every other type, you take it when you are well.
If you are ill, the benefit/risk analysis is easy. Even though most medicine is likely to have a side effect, it is worth it to feel better.
The same analysis is harder when you are well and offered a vaccine.

Like many, I chose the risk with the vaccine to protect me but, for me, more importantly, to protect those who have no choice and unable to have the jab

Only you can decide what risks you are willing to take.
 
If you think that the Covid injection will upset your diabetes, you’ve got the situation upside down. What do you think Covid infection will do your diabetes? Put you at greater risk of dying, or experiencing Long Covid. Who knows?

It’s a question of relative risks. The risk of significant effects from the immunisation are very small. I’m T1 and noticed only a slight effect on my BG. I am now double vaccinated and at very low risk of getting severe Covid. You are not vaccinated and at a higher risk of getting severe Covid.

So get vaccinated, see what marginal effects it has on your diabetic control for a couple of days, then carry on living. Get the second dose then stop worrying. It’s better than dying, for sure.
 
kevinr said:
I still haven't had my covid injection TBH I am frightened that it will upset my hard work of keeping my diabetes working properly and my blood sugar levels will go up or I finish up being poorly which I don't want to happen. Why change everything when my diabetes is running smooth I could also finish up having hypos which I hate I don't like the feeling it gives you.
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There's a chap in my village who is now in a coma due to not having his vaccine. He was transferred from Plymouth to a London hospital.
My personal view is that all who get covid and die due to not having the vaccine should have died of stupidity written on the death certificate.
I can assure you having the vaccine is a lot less of a trauma than having covid.
Besides people not having the vaccine are taking up a lot of hospital beds when admitted due to covid, when those beds and staff could be treating other people with serious conditions..

Sorry if I sound cross not having a go at you personally.
 
Pumper_Sue I get this all the time from people it's not my fault that I can't walk far due to pain in my legs or I can't stand for long and I have to sit down a lot. I asked about getting the covid injection and was I need to go to motherwell or Edinburgh. If covid wants to take me then I wish it would hurry up I might get some peace but I doubt it if I go to Hell. What's the point in living I have tried to commit suicide 4 times and failed I feel useless and a waste of space and sometimes very very depressed. I look at myself in the mirror and laugh at myself I look like the Pilsbury Dough Boy From Ghostbusters. Sorry for ranting on
 
kevinr said:
Pumper_Sue I get this all the time from people it's not my fault that I can't walk far due to pain in my legs or I can't stand for long and I have to sit down a lot. I asked about getting the covid injection and was I need to go to motherwell or Edinburgh. If covid wants to take me then I wish it would hurry up I might get some peace but I doubt it if I go to Hell. What's the point in living I have tried to commit suicide 4 times and failed I feel useless and a waste of space and sometimes very very depressed. I look at myself in the mirror and laugh at myself I look like the Pilsbury Dough Boy From Ghostbusters. Sorry for ranting on
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Surely they do home visits for the housebound?
They certainly did around here.
 
kevinr said:
Pumper_Sue I get this all the time from people it's not my fault that I can't walk far due to pain in my legs or I can't stand for long and I have to sit down a lot. I asked about getting the covid injection and was I need to go to motherwell or Edinburgh. If covid wants to take me then I wish it would hurry up I might get some peace but I doubt it if I go to Hell. What's the point in living I have tried to commit suicide 4 times and failed I feel useless and a waste of space and sometimes very very depressed. I look at myself in the mirror and laugh at myself I look like the Pilsbury Dough Boy From Ghostbusters. Sorry for ranting on
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You have friends here @kevinr You’re not alone. You’ve already cheered up people here with your sense of humour, and you’ve had a great attitude to taking advice when it’s offered.

You’re worth just as much as anyone else, and, although you might not feel like it at the moment, you have something to offer others.
 
Well Inka that's how I see my life I maybe a miserable old git but because I look on life differently I try to cheer people up who are worse off than me. If I can make people smile or laugh then I am happy in knowing that at last I am doing something right and not beating myself up all the time. But I have had a hard life I once had a rocking horse and that died on me, work around where I use to live was as scarce as rocking horse droppings and if I was sent to the shop for potatoes I always had to ask for potatoes that had got Eyes in them so they would last till the end of the week.
 
Am I right in thinking you'd come under NHS Lanarkshire? If so would any of the drop ins over the next few days be available for you to get to? I too was anxious about the effect it may have on my levels but it outweighed my fear of the virus, my first jab I didn't really see any ill effects on my levels and I only had a sore arm for a couple of days, having not left the house since March 2020 that was the biggest and most worrying part for me xx
 
Hi Kaylz. Yes I do belong in the Lanarkshire area and I think the time as come to get my over grown a**e off my settee and go and get my Covid injection this week I shall ring up and see where I can get it. We don't get home calls for the injection there use to be help to get use to the place where they did it but I think that's finished so I will have to get my barrow out and travel that way but it would be quicker in a taxi as my barrow is a wonky thing and not fit for purpose.
 
Hi Kaylz. A thousand thank yous for the information on the link to covid injection places. Everybody including you Kaylz are so Helpful on this forum where would I be without the help from all of you. Thank you So Much
 
Hi Pumper_Sue. May I give my apologies to you on how I reacted about me not having the covid injection and the feed back you gave me. I am so sorry for the way I acted and it will never happen again. Over the time plenty of people outside this forum have given me stick over me not having the covid injection and some have blocked me completely from talking to them in the garden I feel like a leper and I should be kept away from everybody. Hence that's why I joined this diabetes forum yes I am type 2 and so is a lot of people on here but it's great knowing that you can always get help from the people on this forum and that includes you Pumper_Sue I am most humble and grateful for your help and I shouldn't have acted like I did I am so very very sorry.
 
kevinr - What help or support do you have for your depression? I am hoping you get some support.

If you are able to walk a short distance, even just a couple of minutes to start with, do that a few times a week or as many times as you can and then after a couple of weeks just add a minute or two on each day, it will be surprising how just a few minutes outside might life your mood. If you are not able to go outside, how about seeing if you can find an exercise app for seated exercise, I am sure there are ones for seated pilates. British Heart Foundation may have something suitable.

I understand the looking in the mirror thing, I have lost a lot of weight in the last few years, yet I still struggle to look in the mirror, I also suffer depression so am here if you want to talk, I think there are quite a few of us on this forum who also suffer with one form of mental health problems or another, so you are not alone.
 
kevinr said:
Hi Pumper_Sue. May I give my apologies to you on how I reacted about me not having the covid injection and the feed back you gave me. I am so sorry for the way I acted and it will never happen again. Over the time plenty of people outside this forum have given me stick over me not having the covid injection and some have blocked me completely from talking to them in the garden I feel like a leper and I should be kept away from everybody. Hence that's why I joined this diabetes forum yes I am type 2 and so is a lot of people on here but it's great knowing that you can always get help from the people on this forum and that includes you Pumper_Sue I am most humble and grateful for your help and I shouldn't have acted like I did I am so very very sorry.
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Thank you, it's appreciated 🙂
We all have days when we feel sorry for ourselves, me included 🙂
 
Thank you Pumper_Sue and Grannylorraine. I don't take anything for my depression I use to take Prozact but it sent me Haywire and there was another tablet but it turned my urine a very deep green I can't remember what they call them but they didn't help me. So I just try and do my best it does sometimes work but if I am struggling I give my old neighbour a call she is a nurse at the psychiatric hospital where I use to go.
 
kevinr said:
Pumper_Sue I get this all the time from people it's not my fault that I can't walk far due to pain in my legs or I can't stand for long and I have to sit down a lot. I asked about getting the covid injection and was I need to go to motherwell or Edinburgh. If covid wants to take me then I wish it would hurry up I might get some peace but I doubt it if I go to Hell. What's the point in living I have tried to commit suicide 4 times and failed I feel useless and a waste of space and sometimes very very depressed. I look at myself in the mirror and laugh at myself I look like the Pilsbury Dough Boy From Ghostbusters. Sorry for ranting on
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I was suicidal multiple times .Its dreadful and seems uncontrollable . Its 17 yrs since any problems . Life is good despite sudden onset of diabetes. I feel i can handle this now because of what Ive had to deal with before.
Citizens Advice (telephone line) might (possibly) point you in the direction of a source to get you to a Vac centre.
 
,Do you have access to talking therapies? I know there is a waiting list in the area I am in, and I have to do a 3 week course before the counselling which because the date was while I am away in Norfolk, I now can't get on until October, but if it is available to you is it something you would consider? I have never done it before, but hoping it can help.
 
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