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To: Tench_Coxe

In all fairness, there have always been certain requirements for transplant recipients to be somewhat compliant. Not following through with appointments, medications, substance abuse are considered.

Taking a lot of post op steroids would make you immunocompromised and....


13 posted on 08/18/2021 2:57:38 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: americas.best.days...

I received a new liver May of this year. I was on the waiting list for four years. Their was never any mention of requiring me to have the vaccine.I did get the Moderna shots earlier this year, last shot in April. This was at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. They didn’t ask me until AFTER I had the transplant if I had received the vaccine- only because then I wouldn’t have to be tested every time I came in for labs and a follow up appointment.
Wow, that scares the hell outta me. I’ll have to ask my doctor about that at my next appointment. Not that it matters NOW, but now I am curious.


17 posted on 08/18/2021 3:22:54 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: americas.best.days...; telescope115
Taking a lot of post op steroids would make you immunocompromised and....

This is the most important point. The same drugs necessary to reduce the risk of transplant rejection also compromise the immune system against communicable illnesses, from the flu to the common cold to CoVid.

Another reason to receive vaccines before a transplant is that immunocompromised people do not develop antibodies as readily from vaccines. Vaccines are more effective to prevent illness before the immunosuppression drugs are prescribed.

Lastly, transplant recipients should not receive live vaccines (eg nasal flu vaccine).

25 posted on 08/18/2021 6:20:55 PM PDT by NautiNurse (The Swiss beach volleyball team was inspired by the Jamaican bobsled team. )
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