Choose your sources of information more wisely. A person reading the Internet randomly can find all kinds of fake stuff to confirm their biases; if you are anxious in general it can really do a number on you.
Talk to your own trusted doctor, and/or read reliable sources. If you can't tell what sites are reliable, try the Centers for Disease Control or respected medical sites, such as the Mayo Clinic.
I agree with AnnieBrooke - choose your sources of information carefully. Remember that most of the people "warning" you of the "dangers" of the vaccine are the same people who said that COVID was a hoax - so they've been ignoring science all along.
If you take a step back and think about it logically, that should help a bit. A vaccine is designed to ONLY train your cells to identify COVID, so that your cells can defend you against COVID. There is no plausible biological mechanism by which it could affect fertility.
Also, it is VERY difficult to change anything about a person's DNA, even when scientists are specifically attempting to do so in order to cure a genetic disease. If it were as easy as administering a vaccine, we would have cured sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis long ago.
Even though none of the vaccines are DNA-based, I've seen irrational concerns about having foreign DNA injected into the body. Keep in mind that anytime a woman has unprotected intercourse with a man, foreign DNA enters her body. Any time a woman is pregnant, the fetus' DNA will be "foreign," as well, and nobody freaks out about that.
You'll be absolutely fine - better than fine, actually, since you'll be protected against COVID.
You won't get herpes from it, for sure. That started because of a clickbait headline from a newspaper. What it actually meant was that some people were seeing shingles, which is a recurrence of the varicella virus - the chicken pox virus. It is a member of the herpes family of viruses.
There is anecdotal evidence that some people are getting hsv1 or hsv2 outbreaks after getting vaccinated, especially after the 2nd shot, but you can't get infected with herpes - any kind of herpes virus - from the shot.
The only thing you'll get from the vaccine is protection from covid, and maybe you'll feel like crap for a few days. I did, for sure, but it was better than covid.
What do you expect could be the answer of people about to die or very ill because of Covid, if you ask them about being vaccinated several months earlier?
The same response of timely quiting smoking in advanced lung cancer patients.
No worries about potential vaccines risks should overwhelm the personal and population benefits.
After my Astra Zeneca jab 6pm Friday 26th March, I woke at 4am in agony with chest pains, swollen legs, tongue, inner cheeks, sternum I couldn't bare to touch it for the chronic pain. My breasts sere so painful as if I had mastitis!! As I breathed, my rib cage ached and had sharp pains as if I had broken ribs. Headaches severe also. I am not a person to get headaches usually and am healthy 78 year old with full mobility. I felt so tired and drained, became irritable when usually I am very accepting of people's behaviour and stay calm. All testing showed inflammation everywhere. Heart and lungs were clear, no blood clots.
Now it is May 13th, I am very inflamed still . My swollen tongue and inner cheeks still get in the way when I eat and talk so get bitten often. Pain still lingers everywhere in my body, especially tendons, with that dull ache in my head persisting.
Flu jabs react badly with me giving me months of sickness and lung problems whereas usually I stay healthy through each winter.
The on line Covid 19 hotline regarding symptoms recommended I ask my doctor if I should miss the second dose or be hospitalised for 3 days observation if I do get the jab.
In conference with the medical team at The Hob Launceston, it was decided to cancel my second jab.
Meanwhile I wait and hope that the symptoms will go away. I want to get on with my life!! So much to enjoy, create, friends to catch up with. My dog to walk long walks again
My MD said there is no treatment for my symptoms. He can't help me.