COVID-19 vaccine

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Anyone else had the J&J vaccine? What were your side effects? Do the effects take longer to appear?

I took the J&J. I got it on a Thursday and was a little bit out of it through the weekend, but more of being pretty tired, but that's the way I react to cold/flu in general.

[lkaserman]

I'm fully vaccinated, but i have autoimmune disease - so i'm not sure how 'immune' i am to the virus.
I ran into a situation this weekend where a bunch of my alum chapter sisters got together- but i couldn't go because one wasn't vaccinated. I doubt she will get the vaccination. But she has had covid, so now she says she has the antibodies. I feel like she thinks this makes it ok to not get masked - even tho she can still spread the virus.
Now i face a dilemma - do i never attend our get togethers or take the risk.
Feeling really excluded and like they just don't get how vunerable i am to the virus.

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by lkaserman

I'm fully vaccinated, but i have autoimmune disease - so i'm not sure how 'immune' i am to the virus.
I ran into a situation this weekend where a bunch of my alum chapter sisters got together- but i couldn't go because one wasn't vaccinated. I doubt she will get the vaccination. But she has had covid, so now she says she has the antibodies. I feel like she thinks this makes it ok to not get masked - even tho she can still spread the virus.
Now i face a dilemma - do i never attend our get togethers or take the risk.
Feeling really excluded and like they just don't get how vunerable i am to the virus.

I am sorry. Have you shared this information with the group?

[FSUZeta]

Husband, son, and I all had Pfizer. All had sore arms similar to tetanus shot soreness. I purposefully exercised my arm in the hopes that it would work the soreness out, and it did. Husband had a light headache with his first shot (due to his work, he got his in January). I only had arm soreness for a day with both doses. Son had sore arm with first shot, and felt that his underarm lymph nodes were swollen with the second shot.

[PGD-GRAD]

UPDATE: My wife and I have both had our third Covid-19 shot/booster.

I had Pfizer 2 weeks ago and had very mild symptoms—sore shoulder, tiredness for about 48 hours.
My wife had the Moderna yesterday—1/2 dose as prescribed. She has been hit pretty hard—headache, exhaustion (slept 11 hours last night), had a slight fever (over 100) and has slept off and on today

Of course we both think whatever side effects are absolutely worth some discomfort. I just wanted to weigh in.

[PKT4LIFE]

UPDATE: I received my Moderna booster today here in Cali. No symptoms after 6 hours though I am a little tired because I cooked a complete Thanksgiving dinner afterwards.

I lucked out, I found a place that was administering the booster vaccine without an appointment. I happen to be walking in the right place at the right time. I did have an appointment, the earliest I could book was 12/3. I cancelled this appointment.

[PKT4LIFE]

Originally Posted by PKT4LIFE

UPDATE: I received my Moderna booster today here in Cali. No symptoms after 6 hours though I am a little tired because I cooked a complete Thanksgiving dinner afterwards.

I lucked out, I found a place that was administering the booster vaccine without an appointment. I happen to be walking in the right place at the right time. I did have an appointment, the earliest I could book was 12/3. I cancelled this appointment.

Update: I developed a fever 12 hours after injection. A lot better today

[*winter*]

Ugh I have to get Moderna Round 3 soon...I had a miserable 24 hours after the second shot. I didn’t plan properly and wound up working 8 hours while feeing like I had the worst flu. Now I’m going to schedule it for when I’m off. Too bad I don’t work for the state anymore because they paid for you to be off when you got the vaccine.

[aggieAXO]

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.

[LXA SE285]

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.

[Sciencewoman]

My husband had his Moderna booster in September -- he was pretty tired for the next 24 hours, but he also had the "enhanced" flu shot at the same time, so it's hard to say if one or both wiped him out. I had the Pfizer booster Oct. 8, along with the regular flu shot and the first Shingles vaccine. Sore arm and lymph nodes, but that was it -- two of the three injections had some redness and tenderness, but I have no idea which ones were which! Our son is getting his 3rd Pfizer vaccine as we speak.

[PGD-GRAD]

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.

[carnation]

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. 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.

[Zach]

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.

[carnation]

Agree with Zach.