Cancer Australia FAQs COVID-19 Vaccine

For myself, unfortunately, these generic categories of advice regarding boosters is not so cut and dried. According to ATAGI, I should not have the Astra Zeneca one as I have antiphospholipid antigen syndrome...one of the few exceptions when everybody was trying to get the Pfizer one a year or two ago. The advice from them also states that anybody who has had pericarditis shouldn't have the Pfizer one. My doctor tossed up the pros and cons of each at the time, and the Pfizer was decided to be the lesser of two evils as each were contra indicated for two different reasons. The first jab was okay...just a slight temperature and headache. The second one gave me pericarditis (which I'd had before) as well as a deep purple petechial rash on my lower legs. The third one almost had me in hospital with, again, pericarditis and a worse petechial rash than the previous one. I ended up getting covid in August last year, after having three vaccinations altogether, and had thenstarted taking the antiviral medication for a full 24 hours before I ended up in ICU in any event with my blood pressure crashing to 58/ 34. I'm too scared to take any further boosters in the light of my previous severe, and worsening side effects with each dose. I'm also very worried about getting it again but it seems I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. My doctor admitted to me that he's also very conflicted as I don't fit neatly in any particular box. He tried to speak to one of the panel at ATAGI, but was told that personal or one off advise was not their policy to partake in.