Immunizations pre-intake?

By the way, regarding question #3, Mr. Jenko told me tonight that he's feeling the effects of having both the DTAP and Shingles #1 at the same time and understands why the pharmacist said 2 weeks apart, so where we might have been wanting to push it before, I think we're back to the slower and steadier path. 🙂

I would recommend seeing an infectious disease doctor. They can tell you what shots your husband needs and which ones as his care giver you should take. Most people only need 3 MMRs. I had 4 prior to going, but when they tested my blood, I had no protection against the mumps. So I got another MMR. I go every year to the infectious disease doctor to see what I need now.

IHello,
I am 5 years post-transplant (live donor kidney). I was matched with my donor and went to my practitioner for vaccinations. I was close to transplant time so I received several shots at each appt. But I would do it however your transplant coordinator suggests. After receiving my vaccinations (I think I was knly able to get 2-3 mmr due to time), my transplant coordinator expressed concern that having them done so close to transplant could affect my match, if I developed new antibodies after all the tissue and blood tests had been done for matching me with my donor. There was a lot going on then, so I don’t remember everything in detail but check w your transplant team! Best wishes!

Yes, caregiver and potential transplant patient should both get vaccines. COVID is your call. The LAST thing post transplant you want to have is an infection of some type. Control what you can control, as issues beyond any planning can happen. As caregiver, it would be difficult to help if you were contagious. I believe the vaccine protocol took me about 6 months to complete. Best wishes on your journey.

The infectious disease doctor at the Mayo gave me a list of what was needed, it took about year to get all of them done and I had them all done at my PCP's office. No COVID back then but the gov't limitations they put those this year will depend on if you are eligible, he certainly is. It's a lot of vaccines so I kept a spreasheet that I keep today (I started this journey 13 years ago and I'm liver, not kidney) to add boosters to. I'm organization freak so it's likely more data than anyone needs. My husband who is my caregiver also has the same vaccines.

@stephanierp @lcd @azkellyw Thank you so much for your input! I'm definitely adding this to the list of questions and will get started on my vaccines next week--it's not like I wasn't looking at some of them anyway! Hugs to all! 🙂

Good morning from Canada. I had my transplant in October 2020 right in the middle of covid. I was listed before covid and was required to get all immunizations up to date. They did a blood test to see what act defense is I had and what I needed to boost or replace. I was in the middle of getting all of my immunizations when covid locked down here and I could no longer receive them because we could not do a lot of medical stuff at the beginning of the covid. Here in Canada and in BC where I live I wouldn't say you can't get a transplant but it wouldn't be a little harder than to choose you if you don't take this immunization. And I think the reason why is that if you do not care enough to get immunizations, do you care enough to change your lifestyle to protect your donated organ. Also the last thing you need, are you any of these diseases when you have new and used to them?. Good luck! God bless and when the time comes, welcome to pick a lot

Good morning to you, @footballmum! Thank you for the thoughts--I think I was more worried about getting the immunizations before any kind of intake and really got into overthinking it. Once we get farther into the process and can ask all the questions, we're going to stick with the every-2-weeks and just go down the list. Maybe CVS has a "Get 10 immunizations, the 11th is free!" punch card. 😉

I never received any vaccines of any type and have had zero issues and have never been sick I still might have tainted blood after 40 plus transfusions though but it wasn’t required at USC/Keck

I find that quite funny. That's very funny. I wish you good luck on your get the 11th free and on everything that you're about to go through