Hey Bratti,
I’m so glad that you’ve managed to have your first vaccine. I hope you didn’t have a bad reaction to it though
Please ensure that you get the MedicAlert bracelet as soon as possible!
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Thank you Minx. Goodness. Where are my manners.
It’s my second vaccine.
I took a chance with the first one since I was getting a bit of pressure from family members. I knew there was no penicillin in the vaccine I was going to have given. I definitely should have a medical bracelet for this
I was so happy to discover this news yesterday. It really made my day.
Speaking of day, have a good one.
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That’s how I discovered I was allergic to penicillin. Fortunately, my allergy to it is only fairly mild - my hands, fingers and feet swell up for a couple of days if I take it.
That sounds bad enough.
Does that cover the whole ‘cillin’ family of antibiotics, like Amoxcillin?
It must narrow down your available choices a lot if you need medical treatment.
For some reason, I’m fine with the modern derivatives. It’s just pure penicillin that sets me off.
I can’t take any derivatives or antibiotics ending in ‘cillin and have known this since I had an unknown virus when I was a child.
What I didn’t know was why I couldn’t have a small pox vaccine so I was very concerned about the Covid vaccine. I didn’t know that penicillin was the reason I couldn’t have it. It could have been any ingredient.
When I went to get my second vaccine I explained the situation and was told that the pharmacist would betalking to me about it. When I told him the situation, he asked if I was allergic to anything and when I told him that I am fatally allergic to penicillin he said that penicillin was used in all earlier vaccines as an antiseptic but is no longer.
I didn’t have to worry about this any more. My main reason for writing this thread is in case there were others with this same reaction. I lost a very dear friend due to a servers peanut allergy which I didn’t take seriously at the time. I do now.
@Dextrous63 Lets call it more ‘Discussion’ than arguing Dex… 
I will probably never have the covid vaccine, because I live in a different world to you Dex… 
Agreed about discussion…
Putting your own decision aside @OldGreyFox, how much time would have to pass before you might consider a new vaccine to be deemed safe enough to take? You often refer to unforeseen medium/long term side effects as a reason to not partake (which is reasonable enough).
What kind of period of time should “we” wait to see how things evolve? 5 years, 10 years, until all those that trialled it die out?
@Dextrous63 I just have a bad feeling about these new types of vaccines Dex, but especially this hastily cobbled together covid vaccine. I am quite convinced as to its effectiveness in containing the mortality rate and hospital admissions, but I wonder at what cost in the future. And the lengths the establishment is going to in promoting its use. When they start offering financial incentives and junk food to take the vaccine, alarm bells are sounding… 
@Dextrous63 I’m quite happy to go with the recommended time scale which I believe is three years Dex…
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Thanks.
One of my Turkish friends father and mother have had a third vaccine. They had the Chinese Sinovac. Turkey hope to have their own vaccine in use by the end of this year. Tests are being carried out now.