Pfizer Jab On Saturday

[gordiescotland1]

Hi just to say I had the Pfizer vaccine on Saturday being a type 2 diabetic I was offered the Covid-19 vaccination and immediately took it. I had no side effects apart from a very slight sore arm that lasted 24 hours. I will get a call in about 12 weeks for the second dose. Feeling relieved that in 3-4 weeks I will have quite a bit of immunity

[burlyshirley]

I was nervous too Music, but honestly there's no need to be. I'm looking forward to getting notification of my second one now.

[Ken4155]

Daughter booked me in the newly opened vaccination centre in town for both of mine; Sun 7 Mar @ 08;30 and Sun 23 May @ 08;30. I honestly believe she was able to get me in quickly is because of the 08;30 slots i have chosen. I would hazard a guess that most folk would be choosing weekday slots at a later time.

[ladybirder]

Woofy, how early is too early for the second jab?

[woofgang]

LB the official stuff says 3 to 12 weeks. When I had mine, I booked online and couldn't see any earlier than 11 weeks later for my second appointment. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-what-to-expect-after-vaccination/what-to-expect-after-your-covid-19-vaccination

[woofgang]

by couldn't see, i don't mean there were no appointments, I meant the booking system wouldn't show me earlier appointments

[ladybirder]

Thanks. Mine was 24 days so not too early.

[saintpeter48]

I read somewhere that a lot of people are choosing a vaccination site a number of miles away from their homes just so they can go for a drive to have a change of scenery, I live in Southampton and a few of my friends have chosen to drive the 30 miles or so through the New Forest to Salisbury, just for this purpose.

[dannyk13]

I wss just told, by the nurse, see you in 3 months.

[ubasses]

My vaccinator indicated to me that they may be doing the second jabs a bit earlier than 12 weeks. It was then that I stopped feeling concerned that I didn't have my second date set in stone as I could be better off.

[queen 1954]

I had the same one 2 weeks ago,no side effects apart from arm ache which soon went.I was invited to book it by text and apparently they will text me again when my 2nd ones due.

[Peter Pedant]

// Woofy, how early is too early for the second jab?//

I was booked for 0830 Jan 19 and turned up at 0730 - just the earliest by 10 mins. Just in case there was jibber jabber about being 2 mins late and so missing the appt.

but they were very very good - marshalled by Dwayne Johnson ( the fridge - big fella, actor) who seemd instinctively to know how to marshall twenty or thirty OAPs - school leavers and health officials

[Maydup]

Just as well I kept my cool and hung on before booking an appointment 50 odd miles away. This afternoon a whole load of slots were released at various venues much closer to home. I'm booked in for early next week at my nearest town centre, and again in 11 weeks time for second jab, same time, same place.

[DTCwordfan]

so will Scotland, gordie!

[woofgang]

great news maydup

[DTCwordfan]

the process is unbelievably simple, maydup....well done the NHS and Government, as you will find.

[Togo]

It is a relief Geordiescot... when you have had it. Somehow you feel less vulnerable but not of course invincible. Canary made a good point last night at 23.03. If you have given the NHS your mobile phone number, whether in hospital, local practice, or even at a blood test centre, then that is how you are being "contacted". Now if like most of us, you do not answer a number that is not in contacts or recognisable as local then you are liable to ignore it. I still don't know why I answered the call when I ignore so many. Perhaps it was the 0700 that lulled me . I am glad that I did. Hope you get yours soon Canary.

[TonyV]

I had mine this afternoon it was AstraZeneca, but talk about queuing, was an hour waiting.

[Togo]

DT is also correct @19.56. After being, like most, critical of the way things were being done, and the uncertainty over when and where, I was mighty impressed by the procedure and the roll through organisation that started on the car park and was maintained right through the process. They were doing 1,000 a day 7 days a week and still are. Respect to those people involved.

[237SJ]

I`m volunteering at a vaccination centre. We have a cracking system going and everything is very quick and smooth.

[Buenchico]

I've copied and pasted the text below from my post elsewhere on AB, to illustrate how they do things at my local vaccination centre. It all seems to run quite smoothly:

Step 1: Be greeted by a guy standing outside the building in the cold, who directs you to his colleague down the side passage.

Step 2: Get stopped by second guy, with a clipboard, who provides you with hand sanitiser, asks you several questions and gives you an information sheet (about side effects) before letting you get out of the cold and through the door into the building.

Step 3: Upon entering, immediately get stopped by a woman with a clipboard, who asks you more questions before directing you to a chair.

Step 4: Get approached by a woman with a laptop, who asks you more questions and gives you a form.

Step 5: Get accompanied into the vaccination area, and then into an individual cubicle, to wait for the next bit.

Step 6: A woman with yet another clipboard, asks for the form that you've been given and asks you lots more questions, entering your answers onto the form, which she gives back to you

Step 7. Another woman with a laptop arrives and asks for the completed form, so that she can copy all of the information onto her computer.

Step 8: At last, the woman with the syringe arrives and, after just a few more questions, gives you the jab.

Step 9: Be allowed to leave but told not to drive for 15 minutes in case you suffer a bad reaction. Ask what you're meant to do if you actually have one in your car. Get told "Oh well, I expect someone would find you eventually" ;-)