What vaccines have you had as an adult?

14-03-2020 6:41am #1

Reading about possible Covid-19 vaccines reminded me that I don't really get vaccines.. The flu one has never been on my radar as it doesn't seem that common for young adults in Ireland compared to say America.

I've had Hep / rabies I think before going to Asia but never something that is contagious in the same way influenza or Covid-19 is.

cian68 · 14-03-2020 7:21am

Got the flu shot a couple of times. Having lived with young children and an older cancer patient

hairyslug · 14-03-2020 7:26am

Pneumococcal (got pneumonia and meningitis 4 times in 5 years so that fixed that) and flu

HeidiHeidi · 14-03-2020 7:26am

Got an unmerciful dose of flu a few years ago that knocked me sideways for about four months till I was right after it, so I'm first in the queue for that every year since.

Have had all sorts of exotic ones over the years due to travelling/ working abroad.

pc7 · 14-03-2020 7:27am

Flu vaccine yearly

um7y1h83ge06nx · 14-03-2020 7:32am

One silver lining from all this is that anti Vaxxers might go quiet.

So many families across the world would only love if a vaccine had existed for this.

The Princess Bride · 14-03-2020 8:55am

I got the BCG and Hep C vaccines in my late teens.
I now get the flu vaccine every year as soon as it's available. Will probably get the shingles one when I'm older.

Trigger · 14-03-2020 8:59am

PPV and PCV as they are necessary for having Cochlear implant surgery, I contemplate getting the Flu vaccine every year, then dont bother. I probably will when winter starts again

Igotadose · 14-03-2020 9:00am

Flu annually. The one year I missed it, I was wrecked by flu for a month.
Hep A & B
MMR (never had mumps or measles as a kid so I get a regular booster)
Zostervax (Shingles vaccine, some years ago)
Shingrix (better shingles vaccine than Zostervax but only available in the UK right now)
DPT
Japanese Encephalitis 1 & 2
Typhoid

PsychoPete · 14-03-2020 9:03am

None as an adult

14-03-2020 9:08am

What's the craic with shingles? It's something related to chicken pox? I had chicken pox when I was young.

14-03-2020 9:21am

None. I rarely get sick so I don't need any. I won't get one for this thing either.

pwurple · 14-03-2020 9:26am

Hep A, Hep B, typhoid, yellow fever, meningitis, rabies. All the travel ones basically.

And flu every year. There are immune compromised people in my family, so, to protect them....

Harry Palmr · 14-03-2020 9:42am

Flu as I'm in a high risk group. I expect the uptake to be a bit higher next winter.

Igotadose · 14-03-2020 9:45am

Deleted User wrote: »

What's the craic with shingles? It's something related to chicken pox? I had chicken pox when I was young.

It usually affects adults, especially older ones and can be devastating, leading blindness or to 'post herpetic neuralgia,' (PHN) basically, pain that can be debilitating that may fade with time.

The US used to recommend you get the vaccine (Zostervax, available in Ireland), at the age of 60. Now, it's 50, and the newer vaccine (Shingrix) is 90% effective with Zostervax in the 60's.

It doesn't matter if you had chicken pox as a kid. You can still get the Shingles.
My brother nearly went blind from the Shingles, which spurred me to get the vaccine some years ago. He fortunately recovered but still has recurrences. Herself's cousin had it and gets recurrences with PHN from time to time. It's thought that part of the rise in suicides among older Americans is due to PHN from Shingles.

https://www.cdc.gov/shingles/

Wibbs · 14-03-2020 10:16am

None as an adult, only polio vaccine as a kid(had to eat a sugar lump IIRC. No great trial

) and a tetanus jab when I was 10. Caught all the childhood diseases as was the fashion for the time. Mumps, measles, chicken pox, rubella.

Mysteriouschic · 14-03-2020 6:15pm

Haven't had any since really young as I hate injections and I don't really get sick never had the flu.

Wibbs · 14-03-2020 7:21pm

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I don't really get sick never had the flu.

There are a fair number of people like that out there M. I've had flu once, the Swine variety. My late dad when he was offered the flu jab said to the doc that there was no point because "he'd never had the flu in his life"(80+ when he said it). My poor mum on the other hand caught whatever flu was going and the flu jab made a big difference for her. Now I'll bet he and you and me (except for that one time) did have the flu, but we either passed it off as a mild head cold or we didn't get any symptoms. Even with the swine flu I cleared the main dose over the guts of a weekend. A third of people don't have symptoms. So the flu jab might still be a plan to protect those around us. We might be the bastards the virus uses to help it pass to others.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 14-03-2020 7:29pm

Flu shot as soon as it becomes available, its been a God send for me. I used to get a terrible flu almost every year, I haven't had to worry about that since I started flu shots.

I got a ton of shots traveling oversea's with the army, can't remember which one's exactly.

Can't wait for a Covid-19 vax.

jester77 · 14-03-2020 7:31pm

No idea, must look in my vacine passport. I have all the travel ones plus the standard ones, whatever they are. It was up to date last year when the doctor last had a look. Must check to see if anything is expiring.

Ms2011 · 14-03-2020 11:17pm

Hepatitis A & B.

uch · 18-03-2020 2:22am

Used to work in a hospital and had to work in clinical areas, so I've had Hep A & C, Pneumococcal, Flu and had to get Yellow Fever and Rabies when I was going to sub-Saharan Africa

the dark phantom · 18-03-2020 2:29am

None as an adult and I don't intend on getting one, I suffered a heart attack last year too so I gotta be careful but it is what it is.

JupiterKid · 18-03-2020 2:35am

Tetanus, Hepatitis B and HPV. The latter two free from the Gay Men’s Health Service clinic.

Oh and a couple of flu jabs...

RobertKK · 18-03-2020 3:50am

None as an adult.

molly09 · 18-03-2020 3:53am

I never knew there was a shingle vaccine. Is this available to all elderly people?

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 18-03-2020 3:58am

Flu every year for the last 8 years
Hep B - sore one into the arm muscle. This was after an ASD child in a school bit me on the hand. I had not been given the heads up that this child was a biter.

Tetanus
MMR

Those, I got in the last decade.

I got the usual DTaP as a baby. I had meningitis the same week I got this and nearly died. I didn't get any vaccinations after this as it was around the time of the Wakefield "article" and the aul pair felt me becoming ill coincided when my inoculation.

They're not anti-vaxxers anymore though because their views change when they're presented with evidence and logic.

molly09 wrote: »

I never knew there was a shingle vaccine. Is this available to all elderly people?

Shingles is a more advanced kind of chicken pox and is vaccinated in the MMR(V). Varicella is the last letter.

Cherry Blossom · 18-03-2020 6:12am

Meningitis and tetanus, I got the flu jab in my university years when I had exams in January.

Igotadose · 18-03-2020 9:15am

Louie Blue Tiger wrote: »

Shingles is a more advanced kind of chicken pox and is vaccinated in the MMR(V). Varicella is the last letter.

Shingrix, the new Shingles vaccine, is stand-alone. Zostervax is commonly available in Ireland. Not as effective (65% coverage versus 90%+ for Shingrix), but as an adult especially older than 50 years old you should get it.

skooterblue2 · 18-03-2020 9:44am

Dante Flat Cobbler wrote: »

One silver lining from all this is that anti Vaxxers might go quiet.

So many families across the world would only love if a vaccine had existed for this.

Is it wrong to want safer vaccines?
I think you need to look at where this disease came from to realise why we have no immunity to it. Never mind lets just hurry in a new vaccine without trials and testing.

18-03-2020 9:56am

Flu vaccine every year. Heavens, why would you not?

witchgirl26 · 18-03-2020 9:58am

I get the flu vaccine every year. Have gotten the whooping cough one while pregnant (to protect me & baby). Got some ones for travelling (polio and a couple of others). Also have gotten the chicken pox vaccine and MMR. I don't hold immunity to diseases it seems. I've had both measles & rubella in my life but bloods came back showing no immunity. Same with chicken pox - had a presumed case as a child but no immunity in my blood. Means I need to get bloods done every couple of years to see where my immunity is at.

Wibbs · 18-03-2020 11:18am

Deleted User wrote: »

Flu vaccine every year. Heavens, why would you not?

If you come down with the flu every year or are immunocompromised then yeah, very much so, but I don't and am not, so never bothered. If I did or I was, I would.

I got Swine flu, which IIRC wasn't covered by that years vaccine, but cleared that within the space of days and wasn't stuck in bed for any of them(fairly knackered for a few weeks after though). People differ and a true fact is that a third of people with flu show few or no symptoms. The "oh if you really had flu you'd know it" is mostly nonsense.

18-03-2020 11:56am

Wibbs wrote: »

If you come down with the flu every year or are immunocompromised then yeah, very much so, but I don't and am not, so never bothered. If I did or I was, I would.

I got Swine flu, which IIRC wasn't covered by that years vaccine, but cleared that within the space of days and wasn't stuck in bed for any of them(fairly knackered for a few weeks after though). People differ and a true fact is that a third of people with flu show few or no symptoms. The "oh if you really had flu you'd know it" is mostly nonsense.

I can very well remember getting the flu in 1992. Yes, a long time ago, but I remember the first week, hardly able to get to the toilet, and three weeks before I could get around in any semblance of normality. And I was fit, and in my late thirties. And that’s why I get the jab. Each to his own, of course!

What vaccines have you had as an adult?

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