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Childhood vaccinations
Hi
I am coming up to point 7 months where my vaccination due. I have been told this will be non live vaccines from childhood. I've decided to wait till after covid 2nd vaccination to have these.
For people in last few years what vaccines did you have?
Thanks
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Hi Laulau,
I'm able to access my vaccination records online via my GP so I can confirm what I had.
Diptheria, parts 1, 2 and 3
Tetanus, parts 1, 2 and 3
Perissus, parts 1, 2 and 3
Polio, parts 1, 2 and 3
HIB, parts 1, 2 and 3
Pneumococcal, parts 1, 2 and 3
Meningitis, A, C, W and Y
The only jabs I had as a child that I didn't have again after my transplant were Hepatitis B, Rotovirus, Meningitis B and MMR.
Looking at the dates I can see that they were given over 4 appointments over about 18 months. I had no ill effects from any of them. I also have the flu vaccine every year now and of course have had the Covid 19 (AZ) vaccine first dose now.
I hope this helps,
Steve.
Thanks
My doctor is less organised. That's good to know I might ask about shingles vaccine as I had a nasty case of this before.
Hi Laulau,
I am the lead nurse in patient services, thanks for posting about childhood vaccinations.
I thought it would be useful to let you know that shingles is a live vaccine which you can only have after at least 2 years after transplant and with the go ahead from your transplant consultant. Live vaccines are made up of weakened bacteria or virus and in a recovering immune system like yours has the potential to cause mild symptoms of the disease. It is recommended that you wait at least 2 years until your immune system is fully recovered as this is safe and is less likely to cause any symptoms.
Of course still discuss this with your transplant team but this might be helpful in advance.
Best wishes
Hayley
Thank you
Hi LauLau,
In regard to shingles, have you mentioned this to yiour transplant team? Maybe low dose Aciclovir is an option until you can have the vaccine. I developed shingles on my face 26 months after transplant - not a pleasant experience. I was advised to take Aciclovir for a year afterwards to prevent a recurrence.
Rob.
Thank you. I will mention to them thanks. I don't want a repeat of shingles it is alful. I take acyclovir 3 times a day 400mg thanks
About 15 months post transplant I stopped taking aciclovir and about 4 weeks later I got shingles! It has always been my intention to wait and get the shingles vaccine and in hindsight I wish I had!
Thanks for all this useful info. Just by chance, I take aciclovir too and fear shingles, well I have a strong sense of a plan that I will let my med team know about, I'll try to keep on with aciclovir until the live vaccines are completed, shingles included.
I'm in good hands though with vaccines. The clinic release a fully comprehensive printed paper list of what vaccine when to my local doc.
Hi dieseldrinker, I'm off for my flu jab today. I heard from others there's no reaction. Hope so.
Hi Helen, I hope it goes well.
I've never really had a problem with the flu jab other than a sore arm for a day or two afterwards.
I had texts from my GP recently to book my flu jab and my covid booster but haven't got round to it as yet, I really must get them done soon but just need to try and fit them around work at the moment.
Steve
Thanks dieseldrinker... the flue jab went well. It was half way between a two week break from the ecp and the clinic team said that it was better to have a break between the ecp.
I had the covid jabs after the sct. I am pleased I did. What's Important afterwards is your "teeter" blood value which shows how much protection you have. They were really impressed with mine which made me happy.
Hi. I was advised by consultants I was best to have any vaccinations when I was not on any imnosuppressants as otherwise my body would not respond as well to the vaccine. So 7 months post sct I had stopped cyclosporine, so I had my flu and 1st covid vaccines together. This caused a good immune response as informed by doctors however I then got chronic gvhd which I believe was triggered by the immune response. So I believe if you are early on after a sct after you may get gvhd triggered by the immune response. Later on when you have had gvhd for a while or got over it I think gvhd new symptoms will probably be less severe or not at all. The dilemma is which is the best of the two evils a) to have vaccine and gvhd gets worse for a while or b) catch whatever you were going to have the vaccine for?
Having flue jab and covid together might have been ill advised (we'llnever know). My hubby (fit and healthy) had his flue jab last week. And he Reacted with mild symptoms. He wanted the covid one with it but was refused on grounds of too much for the system. If fit and healthy get it refused, I'm sure it's too much for me.
This is just my experience this week. I have chronic gvhd.