Yes, everything recommended, including some exotic ones for travel. Also pneumonia, which I seem to get anyway. Ditto for husband and kids.
Didn’t have MMR or chicken pox vaccines as a kid as they weren’t around until after I had all four diseases. Did have polio and smallpox vaccine. Also tetanus vaccine as a kid. As an adult Hep. B. I’ve still got my yellow international vaccination record but too lazy to pull it out to see if I got anything else in the 70’s or 80’s from the Army.
Yes. I got the DTap last year (before I got pregnant) partly because I was worried about the library patrons I work with, both catching or transmitting. And my parents are getting older and don’t need to get sick. And I got another damned shot in the third trimester because they believe it can pass some immunity on to your fetus. That sucked because the tetanus part of that hurts like a bitch.
I believe they checked my MMR titers in my pregnancy bloodwork. I get a flu shot every year. I got the chicken pox vaccine as a teenager because I never got the disease. I have everything they recommend and so does my husband.
No, I’m not up to date. Pure sloth on my part. I’m late on my mammogram and pap test, too, atm.
I could really stand to get a tetanus shot. I was born in 68, and got all the appropriate shots for the time. There was no chicken pox vaccine and I never got chicken pox myself - although my sister got a raging case of it one Thanksgiving. So I’m either immune or lucky there, and probably need the pox vaccine before getting the shingles vaccine (My mom just got shingles. I know I don’t want that shit.)
I apologize for letting down the side and pledge to get it together at the earliest opportunity.
I posted this on my facebook status yesterday: Let’s make next Friday Shot Day! By next Friday, February 13, make sure all of your (and your children’s) vaccinations are up to date. If they are, treat yourself to your favorite shot of a potent potable of your choice.
I got out my baby book with a record of all my childhood vaccinations. I know I had another measles vaccination in college during an outbreak in the late 1980’s or early 1990s. I’ll be making sure any others are updated this week.
Mine are up to date, as are my son’s. I had mumps and chickenpox as a child, but was immunized for everything per the 1970’s and 1980’s schedule. I have had my Hep B shots, because I had them in nursing school,* (requirement for our clinical practicums) and every time I start a new job they do a titre to make sure I am up to date. I get my tetnus diptheria pertussis booster every 10 years on the “7s”… My last one done by the health unit was in 1987 before I graduated so I remember it by that…
That being said… I have not had any foreign travel ones, the most exotic place I have been is to Aruba for one week.
I have not had Gardisil… nor the shingles vaccine… not old enough but I’d like it because I am prone to cold sores and I fear a case of them.
I actually have an appointment this week with our new family doctor to get my son’s jvaccines checked. I am fairly sure they are up to date but because we switched provinces I want to make sure. Also, idiots in the Fraser Valley who don’t vaccinate their kids are spreading measles around. I volunteer at the Children’s hospital, and my son’s school and live in the neighbourhood. I really don’t need to bring a case of measles travelling inadvertantly.
I think I’m up to date and probably eligible for shingles. raising at my physical in a few weeks
I remember, probably first grade so circa 1968 in bumfuck rural california, in a long line with my classmates. We all got a drop of the polio (IIRC) vaccine on a sugar cube and ate that. We ALL also got shots for something. Reusable needles that were sterilized in a candle flame and then the next kid on the line got their shot. Odd thinking about the whole damn gubmint rhetoric today about parents know better about if and when their kids should be vaccinated.
I have up to date vaccines for everything available under the NHS. Not sure if that costs everything on your list; I know chickenpox isn’t regularly vaccinated against here but I’m not sure about the other terms because they don’t always mean the same thing across the pond and a couple of them are unfamiliar.
My daughter is also up to date with all her vaccines.
I believe I had most of the childhood diseases, except measles.
I did get some vaccinations for overseas travels a few years …
I have to gather all those records together, don’t I?
I have an annual mandatory physical for my job. Every few years the doctor sets me aside to update one vaccine or another. So for most things I am current. Even though a couple exotic ones from years gone by might need updating if I travel again.
But I have not had this seasons flu shot. I have some respiratory uh… something… where I have been coughing fitfully for months. Until that is sorted the doctor is holding off on a flu jab. Go figure.
Just FYI, DTaP is for children under 7 years old. Anyone 7 years or older should be getting Tdap.
The difference is that Tdap has reduced doses of the diphtheria and pertussis vaccines, so they put the “d” and the “p” in little letters. And then they switched the “t” and the “d” to reduce confusion. Too many adults suffered adverse side effects from the higher doses of the diphtheria and pertussis vaccines, so a different vaccine was developed for adults.
I had them all as a kid, then again before I went to college, then again when I was 30 and went to the doctor for the first time in a while.
Also have had the pneumonia vaccine, and get the flu vaccine ever year.
Too old for chicken pox, meningitis, and HPV :mad::mad::mad: I’m glad those are out now though.
Generally covered, though I never had the measles vaccine since I had had the measles (and tje vaccine was brand new at the time).
I assume I got all the appropriate childhood vaccines. My mother was good about stuff like that. When I was pregnant with my first child, they told me the rubella vaccine had worn off. They gave me a top-up for that the day after she was born.
I’ve had tetanus boosters as an adult, but none recently.
Mom was a nurse & pro-vaccine, so I got everything as a kid. As an adult, the military pumped me full of everything they could think of. I think I got the mumps as a kid, but that’s it. Mom had polio and scarlet fever.
I don’t get flu vaccines though. My nurse practitioner doesn’t think I’m much at risk, or a risk, and I haven’t had a cold or flu in ages. Maybe It’s all the heroin. Jk.
Years ago my doctor told me to get a tetanus shot every 10 years on either my birthday or anniversary. I chose birthday because it wouldn’t change. I was due this year but got a combined pertussis, diptheria and tetanus shot a few months ago as my nephew and his wife had just had their first child.
I even did chickenpox a couple of years ago in my 40s - my sister came down with shingles, and Mom couldn’t remember us having chickenpox for sure, and the vaccine wasn’t available until I was in my 20s so I never got it. My doc suggested a blood titer test, which showed no antibodies, so I got the vaccine. Got the pneumonia vaccine too a couple of years ago (asthma and have had pneumonia twice as a kid).
Had them all, including shingles and pneumo-vax. Hep A, B and C. I got a lot of the boosters before being posted in Africa (typhoid, tetanus, yellow fever, etc.). I get the flu shot every year because even inadequate protection is better than NO protection.
To this day I don’t fully know what childhood diseases I’ve had, and when I went to college (1969) I had to get the smallpox vax (again) because it was required and I couldn’t prove that I already had it. (I guess the very visible and distinctive scar on my arm wasn’t proof enough.)
Thanks for nothin, Mom and Dad, for not keeping records of my shots and diseases, and/or not passing those records on to me. To this day, I don’t know if I’ve ever had mumps. I had measles, but I don’t know which variety of measles it was. I don’t believe I’ve ever had a MMR shot. As a 60-something adult, should I be getting it now?
I did get the full Salk polio series, very young. And just a few years after that I got the Sabin sugar cubie. I’ve gotten the TDaP or dTaP or whatever permutation it was, every ten years since 1975.
I had rooster pox and I have chronic bronchitis with occasional nasty exacerbations and I’ve read all the horror stories about shingles (right here on SDMB in fact), so I made it a point to get my shingles jab and the pneumonia jab. My medical plan covered them all at no extra charge to me.
No mystery there - no one has caught smallpox in the wild since 1977, and not at all since the early 80’s. It’s “extinct”. The smallpox vaccine is a live-virus and had more side effects and adverse outcomes than other vaccines so they discontinued it. Some military and such get boosters due to bioterrorism concerns but there’s no need for the average person to get it.
I got smallpox as a baby, still have the scar. Got chickenpox the old fashioned way, and a very mild case of the mumps. Vaccinated against measles and polio. Re-vaccinated against rubella in my teens. Got my Tdap booster in 2008.
Don’t get the flu shot because I am allergic to it. Or at least the version they had 30+ years ago.