We don't really have a ton of data, bc we haven't had much measles circulating! I'm planning to have titers checked, and if low, I'm planning to get another dose, bc the harm seems miniscule.
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Got a dose yesterday, doctor recommended just skipping fighting insurance for titers & going straight to vaccine, esp as I’m visiting WTX soon! CVS, no charge, my insurance covered it (YMMV)
According to a helpful chart I found, I *probably* only got 1 dose of measles vaccine (born before 2 doses was standard) so I'm thinking about getting a booster without bothering to check titers.
I was properly vaccinated two times with MMR but still got mumps in college. I’ve been worried that maybe the whole thing didn’t take and I should get my titers checked for measles at this point. I also got chickenpox as a kid in spite of being vaccinated but at least that was mild.
I got both of the shingle shot series and a month later got shingles. The spot still hurts from time to time. It was mild, so I can only imagine what full-on shingles would have been like.
Got it again a few weeks ago but this time I went on Valtrex and that aborted it.
What would be the harm in just getting another shot if you know you didn’t receive a second, skipping the test? Will insurance cover the titer test? I was born in the 70s so I would have only received one.
My experience is that insurance will only cover the booster if you get the titer test first. Being in the 1-shot-only age range is what should qualify you for the booster.
Work requires vaccinations. I found my shot record AFTER having titers drawn and showing no immunity and getting the 2 shot series. Vaxxed in 1969.. and again in 2017. Better safe than sorry.
Good thinking. I had no idea that this vaccine is supposed to be re-upped every 10 years or so. With the way things are going it's impt to get all the vaccines we can get ASAP.
I heard on NPR today that it looks like there won’t be flu shots available next Fall! Thanks to RFK Jr, he canceled the annual meeting to decide what needs to be in the next shot. It would be the first time in 30+ years that I wouldn’t have had a flu shot! I’m going to be a 70, and NO SHOT?
#AltGov says they might just go ahead with WHO recs and manufacture anyway. It's entirely plausible that you'll have a flu booster. COVID boosters... less plausible. That's the one that scares me more.
jesus fucking christ the flu kills so many people, and also it's just a miserable thing to experience. I cannot. I just. Cannot. I know intellectually that that's what Trump and RFK Jr want, just full-on eugenics, but I can't UNDERSTAND it.
There might still be flu shots, if US manufacturers want to make it or pharmacies want to import it from saner countries,
because WHO and probably a number of other countries will make their predictions. But US supplies could be short.
(And I need to get my passport re-upped anyway for US travel.)
Canadian vaccine cruise lines. You board in the US, they take you to Canadian waters and you get a vax plus a buffet and a lounge lizard act. Who’s with me?
My mom tends to get bronchitis when she doesn’t get her flu shot. My 73 year old mother with diabetes. Gonna get bronchitis. Just let me slap that mold man’s brain worms
I only learned it was 10 years for TDaP when I miraculously went more than a decade without injuring myself in a way where they said “let’s give you a tetanus shot to be sure” (the last was the Deli Slicer Incident of 2009, I re-upped in 2022 to care for a newborn)
Sometime around then, California had a whooping cough outbreak, and a friend of mine (who had all her childhood vaccines) got it, which is how I found out that adult immunity often wanes after a few decades. So I got Tdap instead of just Td after my next injury.
What's more - it's counterproductive from a public health perspective. If we have the means to prevent people from getting the very nasty RSV, why the HELL shouldn't everyone have access to it? If enough people were vaccinated it could really break transmission.
I've said this before: I've been scheduling through CVS, and I always check the immune compromised box. After Covid I developed severe sleep apnea and a chronic cough that has me on a daily steroid
I don't recommend Shingles & Covid at the same time unless you want to just sleep for two days, but all of the other multiple shot things were pretty much just uncomfortable for a day at worst.
The MMR did give me a sore arm for three days but I just made sure not to get punched there.
I can confirm, though for me it was Covid, flu, TDap, and pneumonia shots all in a single day. There was an error in judgement and I spent the next two days barely able to emerge from bed.
My Mom got her 5th covid booster at the same time as an RSV vaccine. She was immunocompromised and taking an oral med that reduced her immunity, and that combo killed her :/
Thank you. All of her doctors and the pharmacist that administered the injections thought it would be okay. It was not okay :(
I’d like others to not live that experience
My work - "You said here you wanted the MMR dose? Can we ask why? You're not clinical staff."
Me - "I have it under good authority that viruses aren't up-to-date on my LinkedIn." (But also, my wife - who works the same org - has patient-facing staff so why risk anything?)
Got mine yesterday, but my doc said only one was necessary. Didn’t have the blood test so hoping it’s covered! Anyway, I’m old enough to have missed it the first time around so as you say, better safe.
That’s the assumption, but if you’ve got insurance that’ll cover it being a data point in “normalizing adults checking their titers and getting boosters if needed” isn’t a terrible thing
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Got it again a few weeks ago but this time I went on Valtrex and that aborted it.
because WHO and probably a number of other countries will make their predictions. But US supplies could be short.
(And I need to get my passport re-upped anyway for US travel.)
It was right under quicksand, not above it because I knew that if I just remembered to get my tetanus shot I’d be fine
mpox/smallpox
Preschool teacher in Texas, I wasn't taking any chances
I also did shingles a little 'early' because people in my age range have been getting shingles
I think I may pay for RSV out of pocket-I DO have an autoimmune disease so it may be covered.
I also have pretty good insurance
The MMR did give me a sore arm for three days but I just made sure not to get punched there.
That got those 2 shots on the same day 😆yeah I was down for a few days afterwards…
I’d like others to not live that experience
Me - "I have it under good authority that viruses aren't up-to-date on my LinkedIn." (But also, my wife - who works the same org - has patient-facing staff so why risk anything?)