Argentina
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Has anyone travelled there recently?
Any hints, tips etc.
After a bad year of new and ever changing health problems, then a new Doctor who wants me off pred yesterday, and then after reading Dan rowers recent post, I made a rash decision and bought a return flight to Argentina, to get myself back out into the world, and fight my desire to become a recluse.
Then I saw the long list of immunisations our Govt sees as necessary for this journey. Hmmmm, I suspect they might not all mix well with pred so I have decided, not to get any.
I do hope a change of scenery will put me in a better head space.
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ptolemy Flutterbie57
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I think it would be worth getting the typhoid one at least.
Flutterbie57 ptolemy
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I guess I should at least do a little research about them. It all seemed too difficult at the time.
Anhaga Flutterbie57
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I don't know. I think I'd rather risk the immunizations than the diseases, which are rather nasty.
EileenH Flutterbie57
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A friend with PMR and on pred has just been for 2 weeks - no problems at all. I think she had the shots the UK requires with no problem.
EileenH
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PS - what sort of holiday? She went on a tour - different matter if you aren't maybe?
Flutterbie57 EileenH
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We are just cruising around by ourselves.....local buses.......staying cheap (mostly). We only eat food hot off the grill and from places filled with locals. We hope they know best.
I am still torn between taking my chances on meeting up with a disease, or filling my body with even more shots. The gambles of life.
I read a paper years ago, written by a doctor, way back in time, warning about the dangers of over immunisation, and how more than a certain number (6, I think) would scramble the immune system. Interesting paper. I must look for it again.
Anhaga Flutterbie57
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When are you leaving? You need several weeks for vaccines to take full effect. And do any of them require more than one dose?
EileenH Flutterbie57
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There is a downside to using places used by locals - they are also more likely to have the feared lurgies... I don't know much about the epidemiology of such lurgies in Argentina though.
Flutterbie57 EileenH
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We took that advice about eating, from an 84 year old friend of the family (12 years ago). We went up the Amazon , Peru, Ecuador, Chile and we did not catch anything(that we know of). Old friend had just come back from 3 months over there, canoeing, hiking etc, and she always ate hot of the grill. We were probably a little more selective. She was obviously very healthy tho, still canoeing and hiking with the young ones. One of lifes characters.
Flutterbie57 Anhaga
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I did not think that through. I never thought of those possibilities. We leave in 6 weeks.