Denial Dave wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:12 am
With every risk, there's a choice.
I'm happy for those who have gotten the shot.
Personally, I have multiple severe food and drug allergies. One
very smalll part of the range of allergies is Shell fish, can't get the flu, pneumonia or shingles shot.
At this point, I'm choosing NO to the Covid vaccine. I'm not anti-vax. I'm anti allergic reaction.
My overall daily fear is equal parts of getting Covid and dying from the shot.
My reactions to drugs tend to be delayed by several hours. Sitting for 15 -30 minutes is a complete waste of time.
Perhaps later this year, I'll change my mind. But right now, I'm not ready to play russian roulette to find out if the chamber has a bullet in it for me or not.
I don't blame you at all, I have multiple food and drug allergies as well. Penicillin has sent me to the hospital as do the derivatives such as keflex. I have autoimmune urticaria and angioedema to go with it all (hives and soft tissue swelling) I was not going to get the shot either but got roped into it at work since they had extra shots and trained medical personal on staff, I figured it was safer than waiting 15-20 min in a parking lot at the stadium. It was the J & J one shot. I will not say that it was ok, it was awful but it wasn't an allergic reaction. It was fever 102, chills, nausea, diarrhea exhaustion and really felt like I had the flu. It was awful, I wont sugar coat it, not fun but thankfully not allergic. My whole department was decimated. At the end of the night Friday, after taking the shot Thursday, only 8 people were left in my department and of those 8 only two had taken the shot.
(They gave out more than 150 shots)
Anyway my point of this whole long post is if you have the opportunity to take it in a medical setting with trained staff on duty to deal with allergic reactions that would be the way to do it, IMO. It was a great comfort to know we had trained medical staff if there was an issue. I stayed the whole 10 hour shift, so by the time I went home at midnight I felt confident my symptoms were not allergic and I wasn't going to die from an allergic reaction, by Friday night I felt like I was dying for other reasons
but it wasn't the allergic reaction I had feared.