Got my Moderna booster Tuesday and was out for about 24 hours. No side effects other than a sore arm from the first two injections in the spring, but my brother warned me the booster hit him hard so I expected it.

I got two Pfizers in the spring and a full dose of Moderna in October. No reaction at all from Pfizer, but with Moderna I had mild chills and fever the night after. I was fine by morning, though.

Not that the findings are conclusive, but Pfizer + Pfizer + Moderna booster might give you the best chance against this thing.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-...dy-2021-12?amp

I also got Pfizer for my first two shots and have my booster scheduled for Wednesday. I'm not sure I even know or remember which booster I'm getting but ::shrugs::

I find the different reactions so interesting! There are 7 people in my family. Everyone had Pfizer except me. I had Moderna. None of us had more than a sore arm. I'm so thankful! We didn't miss a beat.

Wanted to reopen this thread by saying that I got the Pfizer Omicron variant booster Tuesday morning at a local CVS. So far: very drowsy Tuesday evening—I slept 10 hours after going to sleep on the sofa! And I do have a sore upper arm/shoulder. But there’s nothing serious. I went online at CVS, filled out a form and made an appt. I did need to take my COVID vaccination card with me.

I’m glad to have it. I was told it would it would take about 2 weeks for full coverage. My last regular booster was the end of this past March.

One of my sons got his Moderna booster in June. He was to leave for Japan to start teaching a month later, and the Japanese government required that he be tested 4 days before leaving. He was positive. :mad: A lot of good that did him to get the booster.

Luckily, he was able to fly with a second group 3 weeks later but we were all agonizing until the second test because we know people who have inexplicably still tested positive a couple of weeks later.

My son and I have appointments scheduled for tomorrow. I had scheduled for Tuesday, but they canceled it because they didn't get their shipment yet. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!

A couple weeks after this booster, I think I am going to give up the mask while teaching, but we've all been so cautious due my husband's liver transplant in January -- we don't want to bring any kind of germ home, COVID or a cold or anything. I teach student teachers, and they're all out there picking up all sorts of infections from the kiddos they're working with. So, I may still keep wearing the mask. It's been really nice to not have been sick with anything at all for the past 2.5 years, but I hate teaching with a mask.

I got the updated booster and a flu shot yesterday. I'm tired, but can't tell if I'm more tired than I typically am or if it's just the status quo after a busy week.

I didn't have any after effects from the shots (I also got the flu shot at the same time). It seems to less noticeable with each booster.

I just got a flu shot last week. I need to call to see if it's okay to get my second shingles shot now. Which ticks me off because I got the vaccine in 2013 and got shingles 18 months later. :mad: Then I got shingles again last January and my doctor told me that the old one wasn't so great and I should get the new one (2 doses).

I got the flu shot and the new booster a week ago. No side effects other than sore injection site with the flu shot. I had the original shingles shot and have been fine. Would get the new one but Medicare won't pay for it!

So we’re a YEAR past our last Covid post, and I wanted to add this:
Late last week (3 days ago) my wife and I both got the Pfizer “23-24 Covid booster vaccine.

Regarding our other boosters, we’d had sore arms and a bit of lethargy. THIS TIME we both had more severe results: very sore shoulders, extreme lethargy (I slept for 10 hours the first night, my wife slept fitfully). Then she slept nearly the whole day after. She was nauseous and both of us experienced some dizziness.

I’m NOT SAYING we regret getting the shots. But these are more severe reactions than we’d previously experienced.
Just a heads up, friends!!

I got mine yesterday. Been having sore, achy joints since about an hour after the dose, but the injection site is not as sore.

Got mine on Friday...my arm was really sore and I felt blah and tired until about 24 hours later. Motrin helped. Fine today! This was definitely the most noticable after effect of the 7 various doses I've had. My husband had no after effects.

They gave the teachers free flu shots at school a couple of weeks ago, and that will be the extent of the shots I get this year. I already got all the "oldies" shots like shingles and pneumonia.

I'm getting mine Thurdsay at the end of the day. My Friday is slow at work so I can take it easy on the couch with my laptop if needed.

We’re up to date on all of our shots. Just a sore arm for me. I was kind of sleepy, but then again, I’m always sleepy lol.

I knew there was a new booster in the works. I did not know it had been released.

In the fall of 2021 and 2022, my husband and I went for the double jab - flu and Covid shots, one in each arm. In the spring of 2022 and 2023, we both got Covid. (Worse, in 2023 my in-laws were visiting, and we unknowingly exposed them - we were contagious and asymptomatic. FIL spent a couple of days in the ICU.)

I think my bouts with Covid would have been a lot worse if I hadn't gotten my shots. So, unless there's a real reason not to, go get your jabs. Thanks for the reminder - I need to sign up for mine.

I’m vaccinated but I’ve never trusted Covid or the vaccines. It seems like it has turned into a big profit gain for pharmaceutical companies and states. I definitely think Covid was made on purpose in a lab. I also think they had the vaccine before the virus was released. Governments are crazy shady like that.

Agree with Zach.

I'm with Zach and Carnation. My in-laws get all the boosters, etc and yet they still get covid.

I agree with Zach too. I can’t pinpoint the vaccine so I don’t know whether to trust it or not. One thing I do believe 100% is that China purposely created it in a lab though. Do y’all remember that Chinese trade deal Trump put together that China didn’t like? At the time, it went through. China basically put Covid together to get rid of Trump. They didn’t care if they had to kill a bunch of folks to do it. Money will cause people to lose their minds when it’s messed with. China created it, no doubt. Their government wanted Trump gone by any means necessary. They knew his dumbass wouldn’t be able to handle it, so as a result, he’d get voted out, which is exactly what happened.

I don't think our politicians could get their act together to the extent it would take to organize some type of conspiracy even if they wanted to.

I agree. But it wasn’t us. China knew we had an idiot as POTUS who put a trade deal together they didn’t agree with so the best way to get him out was to create something he couldn’t handle. That’s what I think. Interesting how it happened during an election year.

100! Yes! I agree with this. Both posts. Any time you have a moron who believes you can get rid of Covid via drinking bleach, you have someone who can’t handle the virus, and the Chinese government knew that.

Ya know, I wish Donald Trump would “Save America” and “Make America Great Again” by simply eating a Covid-laced dick and dying.

Lmfao!

I plan on receiving it later in October. Just received the flu and RSV vaccine.

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I agree wholeheartedly !!!

Hi, Aggie! Waves! :p

China is severely overpopulated-what better way to cull the herd that releasing a deadly virus?

Or could it be folks who have millions of dollars and fly in private jets to climate summits, who have stated numerous times that the world is overpopulated, who are behind it?

Or could it be the NIH, which was funding research at the Wuhan lab?

Or could it be powerful people who have invested in the companies that made the vaccines? Or all of the above?

All true!

I just keep it simple. It’s wrong. That’s what it is. Human beings hate for one another is stronger than our own self preservation. That’s the sad truth. When people do the right thing for the right reasons, good things always happen. But unfortunately many people choose not to.

Facts! And it’s beyond stupid. It’s just unreal how stupid that is. You’d think we’d learn from the past.

^^^ Well, you and most GCers know about my love of the universe and my annoying posts about the science behind it. :p

But Albert Einstein once said “Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the universe” ~ Albert Einstein

“We call ourselves exploring the universe looking for intelligent life. If we’re basing that intelligence on human intelligence, then we’re not looking for intelligent life.” ~ cheerfulgreek

Isn’t that the truth? We spend billions of dollars on finding new ways to kill each other. I wonder how much money was spent to create Covid. Now they’re making all that money back off of the vaccine that I believe was created before the virus was. In other words, we’ve had the vaccine, but let’s tell everybody this is all brand new, that way we can kill off some folks for about a year, then we’ll show up with the vaccine. Supposedly, every 100 years a pandemic shows up. How do they know this, unless it’s being purposely created?

It is impossible to create a vaccine before the virus exists.

Not if the virus has already been created and not released. I don’t believe Covid is a natural virus. People made it. They had the vaccine before the virus was released. That’s completely possible.

lol

You don’t think that’s possible? In this day and age?

^^^ Well, you have to look at both the virus and the vaccine. The main aim of a virus is to reproduce successfully, and to do this, its genetic material has to download the information it carries. Mostly, this will take place in the cell’s nucleus where the virus can access the molecules it requires to begin manufacturing its own proteins. And then, the job of the vaccine is to weaken the virus in a way to where it has a hard time reproducing itself inside the body. How would you know what your vaccine is capable of without the actual virus you created it for? lol

That’s all Dee was saying. Her post was hilarious! lol