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Vaccines are also, themselves, not exactly GOOD for you. They're just eliciting an immune response in order to obtain immunological defense at a theoretically/h
by ralusek 5y ago
Vaccines are also, themselves, not exactly GOOD for you. They're just eliciting an immune response in order to obtain immunological defense at a theoretically/hopefully lower cost than the alternative infection.
Subjecting yourself to immune response, which for some vaccines can have high amount of reactogenicity, is having your body undergo heavy inflammation, a fair amount of tissue damage, etc. The people that just treat vaccines like they're a wheatgrass shot is pretty strange.
- DeWilde 5y agoI have a rare condition related to insulin resistance and diabetes, blood sugar spikes greatly worsen my health. Discovered that vaccines spike sugar prety significantly after getting my two shots this year. Won't be getting boosters anytime soon as the side effects were gruesome.
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- eloff 5y agoMy parents both reported consistent elevated blood sugar levels after getting the Pfizer vaccine. Not sure if it was related or just coincidence, but there seem numerous reports of the same online. It should be temporary though.
- DeWilde 5y agoThe immune response causes elevated blood sugar, among other things, for around 2 weeks. For most people this is not really harmful but for people with blood glucose problems it can cause severe issues.
- eloff 5y agoThey became aware of the issue after a couple months after the second dose. The trouble with anecdotal evidence like this is there's no way to know if that was caused by the vaccine or would have happened anyway. Other people have reported similar things online. Again one must take it with a grain of salt.
- NullPrefix 5y agoWouldn't that make you an antivaxxer? You surely don't want to be mixed up with that crowd, do you?
- progman32 5y agoLet's debate the merit of the poster's argument instead of casting labels around. Do you think there's no scope for medical exemptions for vaccine requirements? High blood sugar is dangerous, and the OP specifically said: > blood sugar spikes greatly worsen my health. I'm curious what the condition is, and if there's mitigations available or if one vaccine is worse than the other.
- DeWilde 5y agoIt worsens my health by increasing the amount of insulin my body secretes and if pushed too high this can cause type 2 diabetes. Other side effects include cysts and cystic acne. The amount these occurred after both shots was pretty high and the occurrence was pretty persistent for two months after each shot (AZ with 3 months in-between shot). While both times I had Covid, before and after the vaccine, my insulin stayed within normal ranges. So maybe the attenuated virus vaccines can be used for people like me? Or maybe none, if no risk factors like obesity or old age are present as the side effects are also life shortening.
- ncmncm 5y agoI wonder if you already eliminated fructose from your diet.
- mlyle 5y agoIf someone has a demonstrated reaction to the vaccine -- e.g. much worse blood sugar levels -- they can rationally decide that they may not want to get another dose based on an earnest assessment of the risk from not getting dosed vs. the risk of getting dosed. People with e.g. allergies to polysorbate choosing not to get vaccinated are not "antivaxxers".