Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[GAN]

That's what I'm hearing somewhat; however, if you read any articles about all the side effects they basaically say, "hey if you're feeling sick, got a rash, fever, etc, with this vaccine, that's fabulous! That's wonderful! It means that your body is mounting a great defense to the vaccine and future invaders....and oh, by the way, if you get no symptoms, don't worry, you're fine." I mean I get what the literature is doing--trying to make people feel better about the side effects but when they do that, they make the non-side effect people feel like they aren't mounting a defense.

I got my 2nd Pfizer yesterday around noon. Later in the day I had some body aches (which seemed to be focused around every muscle I used playing golf the day before ...lol), arm was sore and by 8PM I could barely keep my eyes open. I slept restless but nothing else. This morning, my arm is definitely sore/stiff and I'm a little more tired than usual ...but that's it. Obviously, I haven't reached 24-hours yet but I'd be surprised if I got much more -I feel good. I don't feel like I'm not mounting a defense -everyone is different. I rarely get headaches, and I can't ever remember having a temp over 99 ..so those symptoms that are common, have never common for me.

I will say the vaccine process in my area(RI) has been really smooth and professional. I have more concerns after seeing the effects of covid, than that of the vaccine -so I'm glad I've got it done. Good luck to all whatever you decide.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

@Mackenzie Click-Mickelson - my co-worker has had swollen lymph nodes (in her armpits) since the day after her second Pfizer shot on Saturday, 4/10. She was also pretty sick afterwards and felt like she was coming down with the flu. Those flu-like symptoms subsided by this past Wednesday, but she still has the swollen lymph nodes today, 9 days later.

A coworker of mine (hospital) got the swollen lymph nodes under her arm (as well as the “Moderna arm rash”) in February and her nodes are still swollen. She recently went for a mammogram and all was fine. She has been totally checked out by multiple health care providers and they all say she’s ok and that the swelling will eventually go away, but she is still a little worried. BTW I’m sorry your symptoms were so severe! Gut sense tells me that oral Zofran wouldn’t have done much for you (with such severe symptoms), but that IV may have helped you feel a little better. Tough to get outside of a hospital or clinic, though. At least now you‘re all set!

I had that after the first dose and it lasted about 2 weeks, sometimes feeling more prevalent than others. This time, I only had it for a day or so.

But I'm guessing it has the possibility of lasting quite a few weeks since my insurance company has said not to make screening mammogram appointments until you're 10 weeks past your first shot for exactly this reason.

Thank you all for the information! I just won't expect it to go away too soon and won't freak out either if it doesn't. That's why this thread is so good

It doesn't hurt just feel weird. I'm over here to my husband before I asked y'all like "hey honey come look at my armpit it looks a little swollen doesn't it?" Pretty sure my husband thinks I'm sometimes asking him to look at my armpit ..well just trying to find the humor in it

Thanks @Pea-n-Me When I had food poisoning over 10 years ago and went to the hospital when it got bad enough they did give me something in the IV to help with the nausea. I have no idea if it was Zofran but it very well could have been. At least all this mess was over the weekend and is done with. My v-safe evaluation for each day of the weekend was lit up like a Christmas tree with all the stuff I was reporting but good data for them.

 

[Music City Mama]

DS had his 2nd Pfizer on Saturday. Walgreens had canceled his 2nd dose two days before he was supposed to get it with no explanation. Rescheduled the 2nd dose at Kroger instead. They actually called him the day of and said feel free to come in earlier in the afternoon if he wanted. No issues with having the doses done at different places (he obviously had his vaccine card with him).

No side effects, but yesterday (so a little less than 48 hours later), he had a slight headache. The only reason I think it could be related is because he NEVER gets headaches. He also has had some red pinpoint looking dots on the top of his feet (spread out, not clustered), and we have no idea if that is is related or not. They never got worse, and they may actually be gone today, I'll ask him later.

 

[Moliphino]

I got my first Pfizer yesterday and so far the only side effect is feeling like I got punched in the arm.

 

[Christine]

Oh boy, this stuff sure messes with our heads, doesn’t it? I’m sitting here 18 hours post-vaccination and I can’t even see or feel where the needle went in, and have not had one tiny iota of a side effect. Did they even actual give me any vaccine?!?

Same experience.

 

[bcla]

That's what I'm hearing somewhat; however, if you read any articles about all the side effects they basaically say, "hey if you're feeling sick, got a rash, fever, etc, with this vaccine, that's fabulous! That's wonderful! It means that your body is mounting a great defense to the vaccine and future invaders....and oh, by the way, if you get no symptoms, don't worry, you're fine." I mean I get what the literature is doing--trying to make people feel better about the side effects but when they do that, they make the non-side effect people feel like they aren't mounting a defense.

The human immune system is weird. It often mounts a "defense" that doesn't really do much other than cause misery. I heard somewhere that about 25% or so of common cold infections are symptomless, and the human body recovers from them just fine compared to having symptoms. There is in fact very little cellular damage from the common cold. It's really the slow development of antibodies that finally evicts cold viruses. Same for a lot of people who came down with COVID-19 where it was symptomless. A lot of people who have died from COVID-19 really died from the immune response, although many seemed to have died from actual lung damage.

But the side effects (other than a sore injection spot) are certainly a sign that it was a real vaccine and not something like the few cases where just saline was injected. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is supposed to be diluted with saline, although the instructions are to deposit the saline into the vaccine vial.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-region-saline-covid-19-vaccine-mackenzie-1.5993539
https://kstp.com/coronavirus/corona...rmacy-injected-22-people-with-saline/6079908/

As for me - I'm feeling better now. Dizziness is over, although the injection site still feels a little tender. Only if I rub it though.

 

[DLgal]

That's what I'm hearing somewhat; however, if you read any articles about all the side effects they basaically say, "hey if you're feeling sick, got a rash, fever, etc, with this vaccine, that's fabulous! That's wonderful! It means that your body is mounting a great defense to the vaccine and future invaders....and oh, by the way, if you get no symptoms, don't worry, you're fine." I mean I get what the literature is doing--trying to make people feel better about the side effects but when they do that, they make the non-side effect people feel like they aren't mounting a defense.

The messaging is just a tactic to make people 1. feel better about feeling crappy, 2. Quell fears that the virus is going to give people Covid and 3. Attempt to educate people on how vaccines work.

The fact is, many many people have excellent and efficient immune systems and they "never get sick." The truth there is that those people DO get infected, but their immune systems efficiently neutralize threats before the point at which they feel symptoms. My husband is one of these people. In 24 years of being together, I've seen him "sick" exactly twice. Our entire family might go down with an illness and he might feel a little off for an hour or so and that's the worst of it for him.

Then there are people who catch every bug known to man, and feel miserable the whole time. Their immune systems work too, but slower or less efficiently, or you are talking about little kids who catch EVERYTHING in their first several years of life, because their immune systems are in learning mode.

My husband is military and has received SO MANY vaccines over the last 22 years that most of us never get and he has never once had even a minor side effect. He sailed through both his Covid vaccines with literally NO side effects, not even a sore arm.

It's a wide spectrum when you look at immune responses in any given population and this is why we see such variation in how people are reacting to this vaccine. At the end of the day, as long as you have a functioning immune system, this vaccine should work well, regardless of how it makes you feel.

 

[anniemae]

Oh boy, this stuff sure messes with our heads, doesn’t it? I’m sitting here 18 hours post-vaccination and I can’t even see or feel where the needle went in, and have not had one tiny iota of a side effect. Did they even actual give me any vaccine?!?

Yes! I barely had a sore arm. I was actually panicking thinking she did it too fast and the vaccine didn't get in or something. I barely felt the needle and I felt like it was too quick. I actually wanted some form of side effect just to know it was working. Give me a headache or some exhaustion so I know it worked.

 

[bcla]

The fact is, many many people have excellent and efficient immune systems and they "never get sick." The truth there is that those people DO get infected, but their immune systems efficiently neutralize threats before the point at which they feel symptoms. My husband is one of these people. In 24 years of being together, I've seen him "sick" exactly twice. Our entire family might go down with an illness and he might feel a little off for an hour or so and that's the worst of it for him.

More likely those who don't come down with cold symptoms are merely asymptomatic where the inflammatory response doesn't happen much or is mild. The causes of most allergies are usually harmless - such as pollen or dander. However, allergies are just an overactive immune response.

 

[DLgal]

So, plot twist!

Remember my son's weird bleeding occurrence 3 days post Pfizer #2? Well, his pediatrician just called me with the blood test results and he had elevated PTT and IRR values, which are related to the "clotting cascade" as she put it.

She consulted with a Hematlogist at the Children's Hospital and she said to re run the test in 2-3 weeks to see if things return to normal. She also wanted to order some additional tests to run along with it. I will pick up the lab order today so I will be able to see what those are.

The Hematlogist said she had not seen any reports yet of anything like this related to the Pfizer vaccine in kids, but since there have not been many 16 year olds vaccinated yet, she could not rule it out as a cause. She also said that in the absence of other worrisome symptoms (bleeding gums, excessive bruising, frequent nosebleeds) that it was likely a transient situation and potentially vaccine related. If the levels are back to normal in a few weeks, we will have a better idea of what might be going on.

 

[NAB]

Just got my Astra Zeneca vaccine. I was waiting for the other and last week booked this one. So glad I did , since they lowered the age down to 40 from 55 everywhere is booked and long lines were you don’t need an appointment.

It is really scary here in Ontario, Canada. Before the weekend you couldn’t get people to take it.

Our supply is far behind I didn’t think I could wait for my age to come up.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

I just got home from getting my 2nd Pfizer. The acutal shot site is actually less sore than it was the first go, at least for now. I did the super hydrate thing this morning, and moved my arm in mini circles for the entire 15 minutes after the shot. My shoulder hurts some, and I have a strip of pain (little stings) running down the back of my arm....those are new, after the shot.

DS17 gets his 2nd shot next Tuesday.

 

[AuntieMe3]

My husband is one of these people. In 24 years of being together, I've seen him "sick" exactly twice. Our entire family might go down with an illness and he might feel a little off for an hour or so and that's the worst of it for him.

This is my husband too. One of those times he has been sick is with Covid in December but he felt really bad for exactly 2 days and then was perfectly fine while DD and I were feeling bad for about 10 days.

My husband is military and has received SO MANY vaccines over the last 22 years that most of us never get and he has never once had even a minor side effect. He sailed through both his Covid vaccines with literally NO side effects, not even a sore arm.

Also my DH...he's a veteran and said the same thing about all his vaccinations, has never had any side effects. He's says that's why he never gets sick, from all the stuff the military shot him up with while he was active.

DD has her first appt scheduled for about a month. She wanted it when she could have a couple days off after just in case of side effects. So she requested a day off the day after her 1st shot and her office will be closed for her bosses vacation when she does her second.

 

[fortwildernessishome]

My husband and I received our second Pfizer vaccine last Friday!!! I literally felt like I wa swalking on air as I left the facility, I was SO HAPPY!!!

With my first shot, I felt like someone wacked me with a baseball bat on my arm. This time, literally no pain in my arm at all. My only side effects from the second shot, was exhaustion. I had afternoon naps 3 days in a row.

My husband was equally tired, but he also had some chills, headache and loss of appetite. His arm actually hurt more with this shot than the first.

Funny, how people can react so differently.

Our boys who are in their 20's are getting their second shots next week. After that, we'll really celebrate!

 

[GAN]

My only side effects from the second shot, was exhaustion. I had afternoon naps 3 days in a row.

This for sure!

 

[Nabas]

Got my second Pfizer dose! (Yay!!!)

Just like my first dose, my only symptom was a sore arm.

 

[ChanaC]

I just got my second Pfizer dose on Saturday! For the first one the only side effect I had was a sore arm, but honestly I get a sore arm for any shot I get. I think my bicep is just wimpy and hate needles.

After the second one I woke up the day after not feeling great. I took my temp a few times and the highest I had was 99.9 F, which admittedly isn't that bad. I had a slight headache and general body aches. It felt like a minor illness. The nurse who gave me the vaccine told me to use Tylenol if I didn't feel good so I took it throughout the day. Luckily I started feeling better that evening and I woke up on Monday totally 100% fine. All in all it's still better than Covid! And if they start requiring a third booster I would sign right up again.

I really, really hope everyone here gets their vaccine and encourages all their friends and family to get it too.

 

[DoryGirl1963]

2nd shot done today !

 

[dvcgirl67]

Got my second Moderna shot a few hours ago. Slight headache so far, but that’s it. Hoping I don’t have too many side effects.

 

[Meriweather]

DIL got her second Pfizer yesterday morning.....slightly sore arm, and nothing else.

And that makes all our adult family members done with the vaccines. 2 weeks and all will be fully vaccinated