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sophierohini Newbie
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Hi Everyone, 

Really interesting and exciting news that in the UK Celiac are getting called to get their Covid vaccine in the "underlying health conditions"  group. I went for mine today and have some very mixed feelings of guilt and happiness, I'm a healthy 26 year old actor who before the virus was doing 10 shows a week and I have had mine before my parents in their 60s and lots of others.  I asked today why I was called and they said about the reduced Spleen function and the NHS not wanting to take chances.

Very very grateful! It was vey easy and so far only a little headache. 

hope you are all staying well wherever you are. One of the good sides to this pandemic is ive finally managed to get my head around the Diagnosis and all the cross/contamination and ingredients (was only diagnosed at 25 after 9-10 years of pain!)

 

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Well, after all this time running this site, it's nice to hear that there is a fringe benefit to having celiac disease! I would not feel guilty, and this now makes me wonder if celiacs worldwide should be bumped up into the early vaccination group?

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On 3/6/2021 at 1:56 AM, Scott Adams said:

Well, after all this time running this site, it's nice to hear that there is a fringe benefit to having celiac disease! I would not feel guilty, and this now makes me wonder if celiacs worldwide should be bumped up into the early vaccination group?

Hi Scott, replying super late here- but yes I wonder if that should happen. When I last spoke to my doc about why I had been offered the jab he mentioned that because there isn't enough data yet the surgeries are just pulling in everyone in the auto-immune category, and that well managed Celiac (said it was also the same for Diabetes) probably wont put you at an extra risk from Covid, but some one who carry on eating gluten (i have no idea why you would do this but there we go)  or took a long time for diagnosis and got very sick as a result might be at risk. Stay safe! 

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