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Morning. 

Jab booked for me .  I'm 45.  Derby city. 

Tomorrow morning.  

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If it's Pride park it's not too well sign posted. It's in the Arena behind PP. 

Cheers.  I've already taken my mother for hers a few weeks back . 

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Had mine yesterday - same cohort, got the text message last Thursday. Feeling a bit rubbish today, not terrible like some people have, but slightly fluey and slightly wobbly and fuzzy-headed, enough to not go into work. I'm trusting it's my white blood cells doing their thang. Enjoy.  And make sure you have a stock of paracetamol in the house at the ready. My nurse said just start taking it as soon as you get home, and it does seem to help with the low level aches and pains.

Wife had hers on sat, 48, Belper 👍

Girlfriend has hers tomorrow 41. Chesterfield. 

Looks like Derbyshire has its sh*t together 

Yes trying to book a 50+ appointment in Sheffield, only options were all outside South Yorkshire.

Oh, I'm 53 and live in Sheffield.  Had mine 3 weeks ago 

Rattling along at a fare old rate in Holmfirth. We just need more AZ vaccine! Been doing the second dose of Phizer for the old-timers, which includes me.💉 Had mine at the end session.

according to an immunologist I heard, what you experience hours after the jab is an initial inflammatory response which can range from very little suffering to feeling pretty crap with what she called "man flu" in some cases when your body "over reacts" a bit.  Then the RNA has to start to be executed by your cells to create the spike protein, taking a bit longer and then over the 2-3 weeks since the jab you have your proper antibody/T-cell buildup to the spike you made your very self.

Yep, as of Wednesday last week, I'm all Phizered up for the year.

And I'm still a Covid Virgin 🤫

Set an alarm then; you might be up pretty late tonight watching nerdle cam.

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40 Sheffield. Booked for Wednesday

Have you seen a drop in health workers getting Covid yet?

I had fairly mild Covid last November, and had the AstraZenecca jab on Saturday. I never had flu like feeling afterwards, but was very tired and achey all over, I had the jab at 3pm, was asleep on my sofa by 5pm, felt pretty rotten and rundown until 8-9ish Sunday evening, then was feeling better by the time I went to bed.

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I had the AZ vaccine on Friday morning. My arm was a bit sore for a couple of day around the injection site, and I felt a bit tired in the afternoon, but thats all. Reactions experienced by people I know seem very varied.

Just had mine two hours ago. Waiting to see how I react!

I’m 45, had mine last Sat 21st 😃

To clarify, Pfizer and Moderna get you to make the spike protein. AZ is an inactivated virus (or bit of virus) vaccine. So depends which one you have.

Lots of old people on here, still waiting. 

I had my first one (AZ) yesterday. I was fine until I went to bed then rapidly developed a fever and some muscle aches. Fever abated around 1200 today but I still feel absolutely wiped out and have a headache. I called in sick and slept most of the day. Wish I'd popped some paracetamol yesterday. Nowhere near as bad as a typhoid one I had some years ago though.

4,599 people Nerdling right now.  Edit: Scrub now NET tomorrow.

CT: What a year.  Glad you’ve kept in touch with the forums.

I'll be watching as usual. 

 Me too.  I stay for the people and the conversations.   There's lots of good people here. 

I’m 49 and had the AZ jab a couple of weeks ago. 

Later that evening I developed uncontrollable shivering for several hours but by morning it had stopped. For the next two days I had aching joints and muscles, a headache and zero energy. Paracetamol did seem to help a bit. 

By Monday morning I was well enough to go to work. Won’t have my second jab on a Friday again! 

The wife had the jab on the same day as me and (typically) wasn’t as rough as me! 

My mum just had a sore arm and felt a bit tired.

Funny how some people get much worse side effects than others. 

To all the 40 somethings getting jabs, were you all contacted by the nhs? or have you been more proactive?? Just wondrin'

I was contacted first thing this morning by text from my doctor's. I signed straight up and booked in less than 10 mins.  

Ah, thanks,  the scientist being interviewed didn't differentiate when she explained

Now my problem is getting a second appointment.  It's a bit awkward to do a 60 mile round trip by road (45 miles if I were a crow!)  at the moment as I can't guarantee access to the car. That's the closest I can get on the NHS website even though there is a mass vaccination centre only 6 or 7 miles away.   It's quite crazy - that's Cumbria for you, UK's Czechslovakia (cold war version)

AZ isn't "inactivated" - it's a whole, somewhat-functional virus that introduces RNA to cause the host to code the spike protein.  But it's a pretty limited virus that lacks the machinery to reproduce.  That must make its production particularly fascinating but I've not read in to it...

Oh dear, that is a problem, how awful. 

Thanks, in my simple mind AZ is 'advanced version of inactivated virus tech' which involved taking all or bits or the Covid virus and taking it for a ride of its life using a chimp flu virus. Or something.

It's a postcode lottery. Healthy under 50s aren't even meant to be getting jabs but some are if you get lucky and live in the 'right' area. I had a text from my GP two weeks ago and there were several slots available the next days, so I booked in and got the AZ (hardly any side effects by the way, just had a sore arm which disappeared after 6 days, and possibly a slight temperature which was 'cured' with paracetamol overnight).

The day I got it the news came out about the roll out being delayed in April and then there was a news items several days later about Birmingham GPs being told to stop rolling out to the under 50s. I had put it down to my GP's catchment area probably having relatively few older people but perhaps they were rolling out out to under 50s across Birmingham. I know someone at work who is in her 40s and got the jab a few days after me. Haven't heard of anyone else yet but most people at work are under 40.

It's a real virus, not inactivated. It's normally found in chimps not humans, so we're not already immune to it. It's modified so that it makes the cells it infects create the sars-cov-2 spike protein. It's "replication deficient", which makes me, like wintertree, wonder how in the hell they make it, but means it won't make you poorlysick.

Tweet says now shooting for 8am (2pm our time).
Sorry for thread hijack.

your point being?

none

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I actually enjoyed that.  Felt a sense of solidarity with all the other people there.  

And I quite enjoyed the needle.  

NW Highlands, 54 yo with asthma. No sign of vaccine or any news, nhs helpline says to wait. 

That's not good. I hope you don't have to wait to much longer . 

Are you having trouble with the online booking system not recognising your details or NHS number?

49, in Kent and too young for vaccine yet according to the booking site  

Thanks, didn’t realise AZ also makes us make the spike protein.

I assumed that the under 50s had just been lucky to have their GP contact them direct to offer an appointment at they had surplus vaccines, would be interesting to know though if that isn't the case and they have managed to book through the centralised NHS site.

​​​​​​To those aged 50+ or in other priority groups, you do not have to wait for your NHS letter and can just go online to book. 

Yep, will bite the bullet and phone gp. Not complaig just that job involves mixing with 100 odd flok from all over the UK. Bit of a sitting duck. Thanks for tbe replies folks, good luck all 

The Chive feels like he's been on the lash.  

Sore arm and headache today.  Ouch.  

You are correct. I’m 45 and was lucky enough to receive a telephone call from my GP. Once I’d had the first I was able to book the second through the NHS site. 

I'd imagine that they've somehow made it so that it needs some specific chemical - that won't be found in a human body! - to replicate.

Nature always finds a way.