The vaccines were almost certainly not the cause of your problem.
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I’ve been wondering about this, too. I had none of the vaccines, but I had the measles – not sure if I had the regular old measles, or what they called back then “the German measles,” or both – mumps & chicken pox. I’m tempted to go get the vaccine, because I’m unsure what I had. Fwiw, I was born in 1955.
The CDC assumes that if you were born before 1957, you had the measles and don’t need to be vaccinated. Especially if you vaguely remember having it, i think you’re safe.
Should You Get a Measles Vaccine Booster? > News > Yale Medicine.
I walked into CVS and got an MMR booster about a month ago. I can see the writing on the wall.
Didn’t bother checking my antibody titers (could do that myself in lab if I really felt the need) - no harm to getting the vaccine even if I did have sufficient levels.
Just scheduled the MMR at CVS for tomorrow, and the online signup offered a COVID booster so I’ll get that too.
Just a reminder to all that a check of measles antibody titers doesn’t measure T-memory cells, an important component of immune protection against measles. One could have a deceptively low titer but good T-cell memory, or be deficient in both aspects.
I read this article from today’s New York Times, which prompted me to go ahead and get the MMR vaccine right after work today at CVS. It couldn’t have been easier.
From the article:
I went to CVS earlier this week for the MMR since I’m in my 70s, pre-vaccination. Yeh, it’s likely I had at least one of the diseases as a child, but I don’t recall, and there’s no harm in getting it. While I was scheduling the shot online I got a suggestion of the Moderna COVID booster, so I added that.
Took both shots in my left shoulder, and other than the sting of the injections and some very mild achiness in my shoulder and upper arm the next couple of days, it was no big deal.
One less thing to worry about.
So if I was born in late 1957 I am probably OK without getting another vaccination.
I think I had measles and mumps as a child and was vaccinated in the Navy in the early 1980s.
I’ll ask my doctor. He’ll probably say no.
There’s debate about whether to get multiple vaccines in the same arm or put them in different arms (assuming you’re only getting two, or have more arms than most of us). I can’t resist sharing what my old doctor pointed out about putting them in one arm: if you have an allergy to one of them, you’ll know, but you won’t know which one, which is important.
That’s a good point in general, but since I’ve had the Moderna shot multiple times now it’s less of a concern. In any case, I had markedly less of a reaction than from some of my previous vaccinations.