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Who has had their first jab?

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Arm is still itchy, not as bad today, I've reported this via the yellow card system as it's not mentioned as a potential side effect.
 
Had my Oxford vaccine today in Scotland. Very impressed with my GP Surgery and I am delighted to receive it. I had Covid last April and ended up with Long Covid so was a little bit apprehensive, but if I get some side effects I don’t mind as it’s worth it in the long run
 
nonethewiser said:
Not heard anything yet.
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Mr Eggy hasn’t yet and he’s in group 6. My sister-in -law, age 63, group 7 got hers on Sunday! Different GP surgery to ours. We’re Carlisle Healthcare. Fingers crossed very soon.
 
Straight in, straight out, no messing ..headachey the morning after yesterday's tea time Oxford/AstraZeneca jab ..but this cleared after a few hours ..a fabulously well organised NHS COVID-19 Vaccination Centre, is Sheffield Arena.

Whilst I'm at it ..for future reference, I've filed ..the booking invitation letter ..a hard copy of the email confirming the appointments ..the ✻Patient Information Leaflet✻ ..the vaccine record card ..and the COVID-19 sticker ..in a pocket display book.
 
I'm booked into GP's for Vaccine tomorrow at 9.30............😳
 
Had my Oxford today (Bristol).
I was the only person in there...Odd
 
louloulou said:
Ive just had the call got mine on Friday really nervous if honest
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Honestly, nothing to worry about. I have had no side affects at all really

Gary
 
Heard nothing yet for Alice, 17, or me, 50. Not so bothered about me as I am furloughed, but Alice is anxious about going back to college. Gave in and rang the surgery today who have no vaccine. All the other local surgeries are better supplied and are moving on to lower groups. Hope to hear soon.
 
I've had mine (Oxford AZ) a couple of days ago too. It was very smooth and efficiently organised. Given a 10 minute slot at a local health centre, and there was no hanging around or mingling.

Very little fallout. A slightly thick-headed feeling, and a modest rise in BG after a couple of days, but not even much of a sore arm 🙂

Hope your surgery get some supplies in soon @stephknits
 
Mr Eggy (age 60, group 6 as has chronic heart condition) had a text this morning. Booked in for Saturday morning. So relieved that there’s only two weeks between us.
 
My partner and I both had the Pfizer jab yesterday. Slight problem with sugars bouncing during the night and even more tired than usual but apart from that everything so far has been fine.
 
Had mine yesterday. Pfizer in Northamptonshire. Headache for a few hours which has now gone. Arm still aches but no worse than flu jab.
 
I was told by nurse, if I didn't get side affects after by12 hours I would be fine........It hit me at 02:00AM - 18 hours after jab,
shivers, freezing cold and headache. Strange also, a wrist issue that hasn't troubled me for years, swelled up and very painful. It's all cleared up now though.
 
I had my first through work on the 26th Jan, have since had a shielding email, letter and then a letter saying ‘book your vaccine’ however my husband has actually been rung by our GP and offered a jab and he has no vulnerabilities on ‘the list’ he is however over 50 (just) if that makes any difference ‍♀️
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Thought it might be interesting to see who has been offered their first Covid vaccine injection, and whether there is much difference over the country.

No need to be overly specific if you’d prefer to keep your exact location secret, but an idea of region might be interesting.

@Becka and @Docb I think you’ve has yours. Any others?
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Mine is tomorrow
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Thought it might be interesting to see who has been offered their first Covid vaccine injection, and whether there is much difference over the country.

No need to be overly specific if you’d prefer to keep your exact location secret, but an idea of region might be interesting.

@Becka and @Docb I think you’ve has yours. Any others?
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I'm having mine on sun morn Wigan area
 
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Am part of a local type 1 parent Facebook gp. They were all saying how their teens were getting vaccine, but that it had to be Pfizer for under 18s. I realised this was probably not available at our surgery, but they hadn't mentioned it. Emailed to confirm, got no reply. Resorted to ringing again today to be told they didn't do Pfizer, they wouldn't give her the Astra Zeneca (some local surgeries are giving it as they don't have the Pfizer and apparently giving it to under 18s is at GPS discretion) and they wouldn't refer her anywhere else to get it. They said we had to ring 119 instead. We rang 119, they said they don't deal with under 18s and they can't be booked through the online vaccination Centre system and we had to get it through our gp surgery. We rang the gp surgery back who said they didn't know and would get a gp to ring us tomorrow. All thenother local surgeries are either referring them, giving g them the other vaccine or have access to Pfizer. Will see what tomorrow brings
 
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