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Transplant: No or Few Antibodies after COVID Vaccination

Transplants | Last Active: Mar 7, 2022 | Replies (193)

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@athenalee

Hey JK. The John Hopkins team has said that there is a direct inverse correlation between antibodies developing if a person had the Pfizer vaccine, is on Mycophenolate, is older, and more recent transplant recipient. So, I had Pfizer, am on Mycophenolate, 62, and just one year out….I figure I’m in the not very hopeful antibody development crowd.

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@athenalee Well, I had Pfizer and am older but I am five years out from transplant - my transplantiversary is 09.23. I think it makes sense that new transplant recipients would have a lesser response since they are probably on a higher dose of immunosuppressant. As I said, my transplant department watches it carefully and I am just a tiny bit above the low end of the range.

I am definitely writing a message on the portal to ask my PCP to write a lab order for me. It's particularly important to me because my decision on whether or not to fly to Denver could hinge on that. Will your transplant center write a lab order of the antibody test, or have you not asked? Maybe I will try the transplant department first to see if they will.
JK