# I'm very pro-vax, but just screwed myself up by getting 5 vaccine shots in six weeks

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**Created:** [February 28, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-very-pro-vax-but-just-screwed-myself-up-by-getting-5-vaccine-shots-in-six-weeks/1014930 "2025-02-28T16:50:05Z")
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### Author: ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-very-pro-vax-but-just-screwed-myself-up-by-getting-5-vaccine-shots-in-six-weeks/1014930/14 "2025-03-01T16:09:51Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Getting several vaccines over a three-week span will not cause problems related to overtaxing the immune system, which is what the OP seems to be fearing.

Getting a series of vaccines in a short period may cause the protective efficacy to be lower just because the immune system is overworked. It will not cause some long-enduring reaction, although the adjuvants in one or more of the individual vaccines could potentially cause a systemic inflammatory response. Why the o.p. believes that this would “put my brain-blood-barrier at major risk” or interact with prior “longterm toxic-mold exposure” is another question, one I suspect is drawn from suspect internet research on questionable (at best) websites.

The mention of this sparked a memory so I did a little search and found previous threads in which the o.p. has described his mold exposure and purported maladies:

> [@My blood tests are confusing me](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-blood-tests-are-confusing-me/1007218):
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> I’ve written before about the toxic-mold house I was living in for nine months (I finally moved out a month ago.) Among other things, I’d lost ten pounds for no good reason and was having constant headaches. Right before moving out, my blood tests showed sky-high MMP-9 and TGFb1 (both inflammation biomarkers.) My a-MSH and VEGF were also abnormally low, a bad sign. After spending a month in the new mold-free apartment, my MMP-9 and TGFb1 plummeted, which was good news, but my a-MSH and VEGF on…

> [@Toxin-eliminating candles, are they a hoax?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toxin-eliminating-candles-are-they-a-hoax/1002428):
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> Spent nearly $200 on mycotoxin-eliminating candles [(EC3 air-purifier candles)](https://microbalancehealthproducts.com/products/ec3-air-purification-candle.html) that purportedly reduce the mycotoxins in a room if you light them for a few hours and purify the air. Now I’m wondering, was I totally gullible? Is this stuff a scam? It does have a lab report that purportedly verifies and backs it up.

Stranger

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