Getting new Covid booster and RSV

Posted by fmeronoff @fmeronoff, Oct 6, 2023

I have been suffering with long covid for one year--got all of my shots and boosters--my doctors say I need to get new covid booster and RSV--your thoughts?

 

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Mayo Clinic researchers find vaccine may reduce severity of long-haul COVID symptoms
August 23, 2023 

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@prancer20

May I ask, where did you read that information? My PCP has said just the opposite, She thinks I should get the booster. She told me that some patients have actually gotten better after boosters. This is so confusing and distressing. If anyone else has some decent info, please post it on this site.

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I had a doctor tell me the same thing about the booster helping with LC from the research he had seen.I just don't know.It would be Amazing if the Booster did help though.

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I am not taxing my longcovid organs&body with any more invasions on my immune system . My defense network has been on high alert for 2&1/2 yrs. It's got all it can manage.

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@bettyjackson

I am not taxing my longcovid organs&body with any more invasions on my immune system . My defense network has been on high alert for 2&1/2 yrs. It's got all it can manage.

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I don't blame you.I was thinking the booster might be a glimmer of hope,but maybe not.

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Here’s some recent information from Mayo Clinic specialists in long COVID and post COVID recovery

- Mayo researchers find vaccine may reduce severity of long-haul COVID symptoms
August 23, 2023 https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-researchers-find-vaccine-may-reduce-severity-of-long-haul-covid-symptoms/

Learn more from Dr Vanichkikorn in this video

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@colleenyoung

Here’s some recent information from Mayo Clinic specialists in long COVID and post COVID recovery

- Mayo researchers find vaccine may reduce severity of long-haul COVID symptoms
August 23, 2023 https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-researchers-find-vaccine-may-reduce-severity-of-long-haul-covid-symptoms/

Learn more from Dr Vanichkikorn in this video

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Thank you, Colleen. This was very helpful and I hope others listen to this regarding the Covid booster. My only question is the form you complete at the Phcy when you go fo your flu vaccination, Covid vaccination, etc. It asks if you are not feeling well, and asks about your symptoms. In the past, I have been told to come back to get a flu shot after completing the form that I was not feeling well. Just the other day, when I picked up a Rx at the Phcy, I asked about the policy regarding the Covid booster and if I could get it, if I still was not feeling well. The answer was a flat "No", without even asking what the symptoms might be, so how do you get around the Phcy? Not answer the questionnaire honestly?? I am a very honest person, so that doesn't set well with me. I am not challenging you in any way, just asking what to do?

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@colleenyoung

Here’s some recent information from Mayo Clinic specialists in long COVID and post COVID recovery

- Mayo researchers find vaccine may reduce severity of long-haul COVID symptoms
August 23, 2023 https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-researchers-find-vaccine-may-reduce-severity-of-long-haul-covid-symptoms/

Learn more from Dr Vanichkikorn in this video

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Thankyou so much Colleen!I have alot of really unusual symptoms from Covid.If the booster could help relieve a few of them I would be so grateful.

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@j77

I am confused because I met with a Doctor that told me he had seen research where a booster could help with Long Covid.I just don't know.I am nervous it could make me worse,but it would be Amazing if I ended up getting better from it.

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Listening to the comments I feel like I may give a new booster a chance. I am having alot of difficulty, particularly with the congestion and mucous running 24 hours a day for two years.
I’ll let everyone know if I get any relief.

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@gggman

Listening to the comments I feel like I may give a new booster a chance. I am having alot of difficulty, particularly with the congestion and mucous running 24 hours a day for two years.
I’ll let everyone know if I get any relief.

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Please let me know if you get any relief.My symptoms are more muscle,nerve and GI related.l,but I just wonder if the booster would help with that too.I don't know.

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@j77

Please let me know if you get any relief.My symptoms are more muscle,nerve and GI related.l,but I just wonder if the booster would help with that too.I don't know.

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What kind of nerve issues? I have developed neuropathy in my feet and have tingling and sharp shooting pain from nerves in my right arm and left leg…

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Hello!I have it in my hands and my feet.I also don't have any feeling in the whole trunk of my body.I don't get the feeling of being full or food going down to the belly.I have an unusual case.I had an iron infusion back in May of 2022,but went to the Beach a few days before and think I picked up Covid at the same time.Bad side affects of an iron infusion are similar to covid so I assumed all my symptoms were from the infusion,but I just kept on getting worse until I could not walk anymore and was bedridden for months.I can walk again,but it is not normal because I don't have any strength in the trunk of my body or neck.The tests only show slight stenosis and scoliosis in the pelvis.The Doctor told me things look fine and I would not need surgery for anything.I have so many weird symptoms that no Doctor can figure it out which makes me believe it is all related to Covid.Covid hides from tests.I am getting an EMG with the Neurologist,but I don't know if that will show anything.The Conventional tests don't pick it up for some reason.

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