correcaminos
Well-Known Member
If your doctors told you to get the shot you should. I know... easier said than done. I can tell you I'm 10 months post first round. No issues here outside of sore arm. I just gave my arm again on Friday for a booster test to see if they help or not. Like the first round, I am 99% sure I got the real deal. Or those placebos stink to high heaven lol. Though a friend of mine was in the trial and got placebo and said it didn't hurt.You can ask! I’m an open book.
The answer is simple- I’m fearful if I vaxx and I’m fearful if I don’t. I’ve done a lot of research on the vaccine and watched a lot of webinars by doctors who say that the vaccine can cause <insert applicable things>. These are not anti vaxx doctors (in fact both doctors I watch have their vaccine). But they do think information is being withheld in the statistics of adverse events after the mRNA jab. A British dr came on Dr Been’s show and said that women are having all types of bad reactions.
I don’t necessarily believe that… I do have severe health anxiety and at this point I feel like I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t. I have this vision of dying in my sleep after jab no.2 and my kids wake up to find me or something.
I have pcos which makes me high risk for catching covid and having a poor outcome. I really feel stuck.
I’ve contacted my gyn and fertility dr who both say to get the shot. So now I’m working through my own stuff (like some RN friends who have pcos and are refusing the shot but won’t tell me why so they don’t ‘sway’ my choice) and trying to gather the courage to stop being stupid and just go get my shot.
No vaccine has any side effects pop up past 6-8 weeks. I'm fine.
I have severe GAD so I get it. Remember the webinars give really the worst case scenario. Schedule with a doctor or clinic, so you know if something did happen, they will be there to help. The chance of needing it? Slim to none. Significantly less and I mean waaaaaaay less (like one in a billion) than what likely would happen if you were sick with covid.
I'm very glad to talk privately, emotionally hold hands.... whatever it takes. I suggest talking with your therapist as well if you have one, and lovingly I'll say that dying in your sleep after vaccination isn't a thing. Your kids won't find you. All said, imagine how traumatizing it would be for them to see you hospitalized with covid. Not being dramatic, but watching my mom sick and in the hospital with a terminal disease was traumatic and I was a teen,
Be that great role model for your kids. Just buck up, mask up, and walk in to a clinic and do it! I know you can!