10-20-2025, 01:06 PM
(10-20-2025, 11:56 AM)Adonsa7100 Wrote: Hi,
I have to travel next month to heavy populated area, assuming the threat of chronovirus is higher than normal. I got shots and bossters in the past without dying.
And so, what's recommended, to get another booster or skip?
Is there any improvement in today's booster that makes em safer?
Thanks much !!!
I am intolerant to some of the adjuvant chemistry in it, so I won't take the vaccine. That information was released about the reaction when it was released, so those who are intolerant to those ingredients should not take it they said, so I didn't. The wife and I both had the virus three or four times, my illness was mild, the first time I was tired for about fsix days, and a fever under a hundred degrees, but that went away without much of an issue Each subsequent infection was milder each time. Everything tasted like that fermented swedish or Norwegan fish that comes in a can all three times.....I don't care for that taste at all, my father used to buy that and he liked it, I thought it sucked. No lasting effects of catching covid for me...more mild of a case.
My wife had it four times, I might have had it four, but my mild illness and screwed up taste buds informed me that it was covid, which I tested positive for twice. My wife had it was worse, and she did get an initial shot which didn't stop her from getting it the first time, so she didn't get it again. The first time she was tired for a month, I just had less than a week, in fact, I was only real tired for a day or two the first time, but moderately tired for the rest of the week.
My reaction to the ingredient is kind of rare I guess, maybe one in ten people have that reaction. I am skeptical of vaccines, because I get a serious reaction to flu vaccines, the doctor who witnessed my second flu vaccine, warned me never to take a flu vaccine again....No temp with the flu shot, but I was out of work for a week, and went to show him how I was. He warned me that it could put me in the hospital if I took another one or kill me....I am not allergic to eggs either, I get a cytokine storm from the flu and the pertusis vaccine...or should I say Bradykin storm because the symptoms of both are about the same as the flu or whooping cough but ten times as bad....so I am not going to take a covid shot for that, especially after having the disease. If you have an overactive immune system, then sticking the virus in the body can cause a serious reaction when it bypasses the muccous and other parts of the innate immune system I guess.
If you had the vaccine with no side effects plus boosters, I would say you might be fine with a booster, but I don't know that for sure. So I will not give you medical advice to take it or not take it, that is up to you. Notice I said MIGHT b e fine. You should talk to your doctor if you are concerned, someone you have dealt with for years and has witnessed any reactions to meds you have had. All meds have side effects, but if the side effect is way less of a problem than what you are treating, I suppose it is worth it.
The new strains of covid are not as bad as the original, each getting a little less dangerous. But some medicines block the proper activation of the immune systems to treat diseases, and old people do lose some immunity too. I am only seventy, I don't plan on getting old till I am a hundred or will die just being older if I die before that.
It is your choice if you want the vaccine or not, and you should be speaking to your doctor or relatives, not asking us for our opinion on this subject. We can give you some info, but the information we give is just to inform you of possible risks, and those risks vary from person to person. My risks do not apply to most people.
