| More alarming news... 12:50 - Jan 22 with 7294 views | DebsyAngel |
Been reading up on the Covid vaccines - and was pleased the other day that my doctors are doing it.... well that is what I thought.
They are contacting patients, but sending to just 5 places in Suffolk - Trinity Park is the only one in Ipswich and that is miles from me and I do not drive. And why is it the Pfizer vaccine only? Where is this Oxford one? Where are chemists and other centres that are meant to be opening?
I know it's early days but my Dad has his at his surgery and the Oxford one, due to be done on Tuesday.
I just feel there is no way out of this hell. The dangled carrot moved another 6 months into the future, like it always seems to be, I cannot live like this forever. The longer it goes on, the more I will never get over the anxiety. |  | | |  |
| More alarming news... on 21:01 - Jan 22 with 2143 views | jeera |
| More alarming news... on 20:52 - Jan 22 by J2BLUE |
I used two last time I had to go somewhere. Cloth one underneath and disposable over the top.
I also use a ton of hand gel. People ask why so much. I answer that it costs pennies and it's better to use it frequently and use too much than not enough. |
I'm not a fan of some hand gels as they're sometimes sticky and horrible, but I use them when supplied by the supermarkets at the door, and give the trolly a spray and all that.
I have a soap dispenser in the back of the car anyway and wash my hands when I get back to the car park.
As I said before, I don't want to use something where loads of grimy people have had their hands anyway on a good day!
But masks are easily washed, so I don't fully understand the demand for disposables. |  |
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| More alarming news... on 21:13 - Jan 22 with 2137 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| More alarming news... on 16:26 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I have tried- I REALLY have. Not had time to do lists, but getting my enjoyment out of a few TV shows and the usual tonne of music I listen to, and getting involved in Facebook threads with good friends about music. So I am trying. |
I'm sorry but 'not had time to do lists' is an excuse. It takes 5 minutes, when you and your hubby put your heads down at night. We do it after the lights are off. Unless you fall asleep within 5 minutes, then you can do it.
I promise, if you do it every night, just fire back and forth reasons to be grateful, up to 10, it will make you feel better. I know it seems silly but it really works, after time.
Chatting with friends about (and listening to) music, is also good. Just build on that. Changing the way you think is hard work, but so worth it. Just look at your subject title. That's not helping you. |  |
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| More alarming news... on 21:16 - Jan 22 with 2130 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 21:13 - Jan 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I'm sorry but 'not had time to do lists' is an excuse. It takes 5 minutes, when you and your hubby put your heads down at night. We do it after the lights are off. Unless you fall asleep within 5 minutes, then you can do it.
I promise, if you do it every night, just fire back and forth reasons to be grateful, up to 10, it will make you feel better. I know it seems silly but it really works, after time.
Chatting with friends about (and listening to) music, is also good. Just build on that. Changing the way you think is hard work, but so worth it. Just look at your subject title. That's not helping you. |
Have you heard of gratitude rocks? That was about the only bit of 'the secret' that wasn't complete garbage. |  |
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| More alarming news... on 21:46 - Jan 22 with 2116 views | DebsyAngel |
| More alarming news... on 21:13 - Jan 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I'm sorry but 'not had time to do lists' is an excuse. It takes 5 minutes, when you and your hubby put your heads down at night. We do it after the lights are off. Unless you fall asleep within 5 minutes, then you can do it.
I promise, if you do it every night, just fire back and forth reasons to be grateful, up to 10, it will make you feel better. I know it seems silly but it really works, after time.
Chatting with friends about (and listening to) music, is also good. Just build on that. Changing the way you think is hard work, but so worth it. Just look at your subject title. That's not helping you. |
I have enough lists that run my life and most nights I am lucky to get to bed by 3am, as I am in such pain and therefore tasks take me longer than most people. I guess nobody really knows what I am like, not living with me, but it is hard to explain in words I will no longer discuss this on here as it's hard to make people understand me. | | | |
| More alarming news... on 21:48 - Jan 22 with 2112 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 21:46 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I have enough lists that run my life and most nights I am lucky to get to bed by 3am, as I am in such pain and therefore tasks take me longer than most people. I guess nobody really knows what I am like, not living with me, but it is hard to explain in words I will no longer discuss this on here as it's hard to make people understand me. |
Feel free to vent. It's nowhere near as simple as he's making out. Managing your thinking is incredibly difficult. Being grateful is so much easier when you're happy. Not so easy when in pain and dealing with all sorts of issues.
Don't stop posting IF it helps you. | |
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| More alarming news... on 22:05 - Jan 22 with 2100 views | DebsyAngel |
| More alarming news... on 21:48 - Jan 22 by J2BLUE |
Feel free to vent. It's nowhere near as simple as he's making out. Managing your thinking is incredibly difficult. Being grateful is so much easier when you're happy. Not so easy when in pain and dealing with all sorts of issues.
Don't stop posting IF it helps you. |
I have a lot of physical pain, and EVERY day it happens, the tightness in my chest, the breathlessness, which then causes me to panic. I am very stringent on the jobs I do in the home and each day there seems to be another thing to add to problems and cause me more work. I write a diary - have done since I was 17 - and it's not just a small bit each day - its pages and pages as I try to get my feelings out of my head and onto paper, as it was recommended that this was a way to unburden my mind by a therapist I saw about 10 years ago. The problems with most mental health help is that the sessions only last 6 weeks max, and then you are on your own again or once more told to take antidepressants - which I can't as my eye problem is a risk. My husband and friends and parents are as supportive as they can be and I often PM a few trusted friends on FB who check up on me.
That kind of sums it up and I hate to be so open about my MH problems, but I try to deal with them my way, and cannot help if the current situation we are in is pretty bleak, and also trying to cope with my daily health problems and pain as no doctor has been able to help me and tests always come back negative but it's hard to explain to them as they say they do not understand what I mean when I state the ever changing symptoms on a daily basis. I have been accused by some as attention seeking and that it is all in my mind. Ever since I got ill in March 2019, these pains have been worse and been on a multitude of different medications, none of which has worked as nobody knows what to treat it with as they have no idea what it is. Post viral maybe, but for almost 2 years?
Thanks for the support, J2 | | | |
| More alarming news... on 23:06 - Jan 22 with 2073 views | Pinewoodblue |
You don't get a choice , each GP practice deals with its own patients. This will change as and when NHS England set up a vaccination centre. |  |
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| More alarming news... on 23:44 - Jan 22 with 2046 views | ronnyd |
| More alarming news... on 23:06 - Jan 22 by Pinewoodblue |
You don't get a choice , each GP practice deals with its own patients. This will change as and when NHS England set up a vaccination centre. |
I live in IP32, i have just received letters for me and wifey. Though the letters and consent forms are from Mt. Farm practice on Moreton Hall, the jabs will be at Swan Surgery practice on Northgate St. |  | | |
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| More alarming news... on 23:53 - Jan 22 with 2037 views | Pinewoodblue |
| More alarming news... on 23:44 - Jan 22 by ronnyd |
I live in IP32, i have just received letters for me and wifey. Though the letters and consent forms are from Mt. Farm practice on Moreton Hall, the jabs will be at Swan Surgery practice on Northgate St. |
Think that is the best way to do it, just pool resources at a local level. Did you get given a date for the second jab? | |
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| More alarming news... on 00:01 - Jan 23 with 2024 views | Ryorry |
| More alarming news... on 22:05 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I have a lot of physical pain, and EVERY day it happens, the tightness in my chest, the breathlessness, which then causes me to panic. I am very stringent on the jobs I do in the home and each day there seems to be another thing to add to problems and cause me more work. I write a diary - have done since I was 17 - and it's not just a small bit each day - its pages and pages as I try to get my feelings out of my head and onto paper, as it was recommended that this was a way to unburden my mind by a therapist I saw about 10 years ago. The problems with most mental health help is that the sessions only last 6 weeks max, and then you are on your own again or once more told to take antidepressants - which I can't as my eye problem is a risk. My husband and friends and parents are as supportive as they can be and I often PM a few trusted friends on FB who check up on me.
That kind of sums it up and I hate to be so open about my MH problems, but I try to deal with them my way, and cannot help if the current situation we are in is pretty bleak, and also trying to cope with my daily health problems and pain as no doctor has been able to help me and tests always come back negative but it's hard to explain to them as they say they do not understand what I mean when I state the ever changing symptoms on a daily basis. I have been accused by some as attention seeking and that it is all in my mind. Ever since I got ill in March 2019, these pains have been worse and been on a multitude of different medications, none of which has worked as nobody knows what to treat it with as they have no idea what it is. Post viral maybe, but for almost 2 years?
Thanks for the support, J2 |
Just do whatever you can that works for you Debsy - no-one else but you knows what that is - *listen to your body* & shrug off any unwelcome pressure like a dog shaking the rain of its coat :)
Btw "undiagnosed" medical problems often become diagnosed as time goes on & with advances in medical science - you've only got to look at how many previous "mystery" spinal problems were diagnosed with the advent of MRI scanners in hospitals. |  |
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| More alarming news... on 01:18 - Jan 23 with 1992 views | SuffolkPOSH |
| More alarming news... on 13:30 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I haven't actually been offered it yet! My Dad is the only one, and he is 79 with lots of health issues.
I am 49 and have mild asthma, underactive thyroid and terrible anxiety issues, and an eye problem related to glaucoma. So I am possibly 6th on their priority list, as I get a flu jab every year? Also allergies to penicillin and fish. Not sure if people prone to allergies are safe for the Pfizer one? [Post edited 22 Jan 2021 13:41]
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DebsyAngel, I'm also 49 & diabetic so should be in the same category as you (6). I did an app which predicts when I should roughly get the jab & it stated sometime in March, so if I was you I would mentally prepare yourself that is when you will get it. Lockdown restrictions should be different be then so hopefully your father can drive you their. Try not to think to much about the what if's as this will just make you worry more & try & focus on the positive that there is a vaccine & you will be getting it within the next couple of months. |  | | |
| More alarming news... on 10:37 - Jan 23 with 1930 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 01:18 - Jan 23 by SuffolkPOSH |
DebsyAngel, I'm also 49 & diabetic so should be in the same category as you (6). I did an app which predicts when I should roughly get the jab & it stated sometime in March, so if I was you I would mentally prepare yourself that is when you will get it. Lockdown restrictions should be different be then so hopefully your father can drive you their. Try not to think to much about the what if's as this will just make you worry more & try & focus on the positive that there is a vaccine & you will be getting it within the next couple of months. |
Was it an updated calculator? The original one was programmed for 1,000,000 vaccines a week and no one seemed to bother adjusting it. Then loads of people said they wouldn't be vaccinated until November etc which is nonsense. | |
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| More alarming news... on 11:21 - Jan 23 with 1920 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| More alarming news... on 21:16 - Jan 22 by J2BLUE |
Have you heard of gratitude rocks? That was about the only bit of 'the secret' that wasn't complete garbage. |
I haven't, no. Sounds interesting. | |
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| More alarming news... on 11:23 - Jan 23 with 1918 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| More alarming news... on 21:46 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I have enough lists that run my life and most nights I am lucky to get to bed by 3am, as I am in such pain and therefore tasks take me longer than most people. I guess nobody really knows what I am like, not living with me, but it is hard to explain in words I will no longer discuss this on here as it's hard to make people understand me. |
I'm not suggesting you stop posting, I'm trying to help you. I do understand what it's like, I've been through crippling anxiety myself. | |
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| More alarming news... on 11:59 - Jan 23 with 1902 views | ronnyd |
| More alarming news... on 23:53 - Jan 22 by Pinewoodblue |
Think that is the best way to do it, just pool resources at a local level. Did you get given a date for the second jab? |
No, perhaps they tell you when they do the first one. | | | |
| More alarming news... on 20:20 - Feb 15 with 1730 views | J2BLUE |
After misleading Asthma UK for a year the government has backtracked on putting anyone with asthma that is "currently under control" on the priority list.
For me that means going from sometime in April to before autumn.
Gutted. | |
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| More alarming news... on 20:38 - Feb 15 with 1698 views | Ace_High1 |
| More alarming news... on 20:20 - Feb 15 by J2BLUE |
After misleading Asthma UK for a year the government has backtracked on putting anyone with asthma that is "currently under control" on the priority list.
For me that means going from sometime in April to before autumn.
Gutted. |
Chin up J2, you never know, I got a call out of the blue for mine and I thought I would be at least another month or two down the line. |  | | |
| More alarming news... on 21:31 - Feb 15 with 1664 views | Churchman |
| More alarming news... on 20:20 - Feb 15 by J2BLUE |
After misleading Asthma UK for a year the government has backtracked on putting anyone with asthma that is "currently under control" on the priority list.
For me that means going from sometime in April to before autumn.
Gutted. |
What is being attempted in the time it’s being attempted has not been done before. It feels a bit ‘post code lottery’, a but random but the scale is obviously massive. I genuinely think they’ve tried to prioritise with the best of intent, but the underlying objective has to be to get as much vaccine out there ASAP.
My sis at 66 has her vaccination Saturday, having been offered one last Friday (she’s been looking after my dad in Suffolk so has had to delay), a friend who is 48 and suffers from bi-polar has hers Friday. My misses who has various issues hasn’t heard anything yet. It’s very mixed, priority wise.
I was interested to hear that they are looking to ramp up volumes over the next few weeks that should cater for second vaccinations and the next tranches of first vaccination and while end of April is the aimed for, I sense that for once they are trying to be realistic about it and who knows, it hopefully will be sooner. Priority groups will shift too and I hope asthma suffers are moved up. |  | | |
| More alarming news... on 21:35 - Feb 15 with 1657 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 21:31 - Feb 15 by Churchman |
What is being attempted in the time it’s being attempted has not been done before. It feels a bit ‘post code lottery’, a but random but the scale is obviously massive. I genuinely think they’ve tried to prioritise with the best of intent, but the underlying objective has to be to get as much vaccine out there ASAP.
My sis at 66 has her vaccination Saturday, having been offered one last Friday (she’s been looking after my dad in Suffolk so has had to delay), a friend who is 48 and suffers from bi-polar has hers Friday. My misses who has various issues hasn’t heard anything yet. It’s very mixed, priority wise.
I was interested to hear that they are looking to ramp up volumes over the next few weeks that should cater for second vaccinations and the next tranches of first vaccination and while end of April is the aimed for, I sense that for once they are trying to be realistic about it and who knows, it hopefully will be sooner. Priority groups will shift too and I hope asthma suffers are moved up. |
Agree. I'm just annoyed that they have seemingly deliberately mislead Asthma UK for a year just to keep the pressure off.
I realise there are people who need the vaccine more than I do and they should get it first. My mum has been done and my dad is in category six so i'm grateful for that. | |
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| More alarming news... on 22:23 - Feb 15 with 1624 views | DebsyAngel |
| More alarming news... on 20:20 - Feb 15 by J2BLUE |
After misleading Asthma UK for a year the government has backtracked on putting anyone with asthma that is "currently under control" on the priority list.
For me that means going from sometime in April to before autumn.
Gutted. |
I know - and naturally that has made me really panicky and scared that I will never get vaccinated and it will be another damned year sitting in these 4 walls most of the time. Why have they done this when people with respiratory problems are more at risk, however mild their asthma is? Bang goes having my parents round for my 50th in July. I thought I would have been safe by then, but this has wrecked it. | | | |
| More alarming news... on 22:24 - Feb 15 with 1621 views | chrismakin |
| More alarming news... on 21:35 - Feb 15 by J2BLUE |
Agree. I'm just annoyed that they have seemingly deliberately mislead Asthma UK for a year just to keep the pressure off.
I realise there are people who need the vaccine more than I do and they should get it first. My mum has been done and my dad is in category six so i'm grateful for that. |
J2, the recent news about Oxford being suitable for ALL Adults, didn't that include those with Asthma issues? |  |
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| More alarming news... on 22:26 - Feb 15 with 1612 views | DebsyAngel |
| More alarming news... on 21:35 - Feb 15 by J2BLUE |
Agree. I'm just annoyed that they have seemingly deliberately mislead Asthma UK for a year just to keep the pressure off.
I realise there are people who need the vaccine more than I do and they should get it first. My mum has been done and my dad is in category six so i'm grateful for that. |
I would have thought anyone who was eligible for a flu jab each year would have been a priority. So a load of healthy people will be getting it before I (and many others who deserve priority). That is not fair. | | | |
| More alarming news... on 22:29 - Feb 15 with 1604 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 22:23 - Feb 15 by DebsyAngel |
I know - and naturally that has made me really panicky and scared that I will never get vaccinated and it will be another damned year sitting in these 4 walls most of the time. Why have they done this when people with respiratory problems are more at risk, however mild their asthma is? Bang goes having my parents round for my 50th in July. I thought I would have been safe by then, but this has wrecked it. |
Well, not sure when in July your birthday is obviously but even if it's the 1st you have until the first week of June to get vaccinated and then three weeks for it to kick in so don't give up hope. That's 5-6 weeks once they start on rest of the population if they hit their April target. Maybe they'll be some pushback and we'll get priority once they do the rest of the population. Have you looked at party gazebos etc for an outside party?
I was hoping to go for interviews and find a new job. I don't fancy that if i'm unvaccinated to be honest. | |
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| More alarming news... on 22:30 - Feb 15 with 1598 views | J2BLUE |
| More alarming news... on 22:24 - Feb 15 by chrismakin |
J2, the recent news about Oxford being suitable for ALL Adults, didn't that include those with Asthma issues? |
I'm think it did. This isn't anything to do with safety. This is purely the government backtracking on previous comments. | |
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| More alarming news... on 22:32 - Feb 15 with 1591 views | chrismakin |
| More alarming news... on 22:05 - Jan 22 by DebsyAngel |
I have a lot of physical pain, and EVERY day it happens, the tightness in my chest, the breathlessness, which then causes me to panic. I am very stringent on the jobs I do in the home and each day there seems to be another thing to add to problems and cause me more work. I write a diary - have done since I was 17 - and it's not just a small bit each day - its pages and pages as I try to get my feelings out of my head and onto paper, as it was recommended that this was a way to unburden my mind by a therapist I saw about 10 years ago. The problems with most mental health help is that the sessions only last 6 weeks max, and then you are on your own again or once more told to take antidepressants - which I can't as my eye problem is a risk. My husband and friends and parents are as supportive as they can be and I often PM a few trusted friends on FB who check up on me.
That kind of sums it up and I hate to be so open about my MH problems, but I try to deal with them my way, and cannot help if the current situation we are in is pretty bleak, and also trying to cope with my daily health problems and pain as no doctor has been able to help me and tests always come back negative but it's hard to explain to them as they say they do not understand what I mean when I state the ever changing symptoms on a daily basis. I have been accused by some as attention seeking and that it is all in my mind. Ever since I got ill in March 2019, these pains have been worse and been on a multitude of different medications, none of which has worked as nobody knows what to treat it with as they have no idea what it is. Post viral maybe, but for almost 2 years?
Thanks for the support, J2 |
Debsey, is there any chance your BMI is higher than it should be for your age? In surrey, if you're BMI is higher than it should be, people have been asked to contact their surgery regarding vaccines. | |
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