Ok, fess up, who has gotten the vaccine, and how was it?

[sportsluvr]

I got mine on Wednesday. Didn't feel a thing. The second shot is on 3/11.

 

[Abacinator]

My wife got her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday afternoon. By evening she was exhausted and aching, and this morning she's running a slight fever and her legs are aching like crazy.

Update: she says she's never had aches this bad in her life

Fever 101.6

 

[Blankpage]

I have not-so-great lungs, so I make sure to get the flu vaccine every year, now. Some years my reaction is nothing-burger. Other years I can be pretty wiped out for a day+. I even got the flu one year after going to the doctor's office for a shot! I (and she) suspected that I probably picked it up in the waiting room right before, but it wasn't nearly as bad a flu as I might have otherwise gotten had I not had the shot.

But I have to tell you, once you get a bad bout of the flu, you know it. One year, when I was in my 20's, I woke up feeling pretty bad. Went to work from Emeryville in SF and by 11 a.m., didn't know if I could muster up the strength to get home. I was on the couch for 5 days straight and still feeling pretty puny 3 weeks later. And then I got pneumonia a few weeks later as a result because I'm an idiot and didn't pay attention to how sick I was. I honestly was scared that I wasn't going to pull through. At 26. And that took me a full six months to recover from. My lungs have never been the same because they're scarred. The shot is ALWAYS worth it.

So sick with a flu in my late teens or early 20’s I was delirious. The flu can be bad time.
Got the flu shot back last fall expecting to not notice anything but it kicked in hours later and I was under the weather for a almost a day.

 

[ejv]

Got my 2nd Moderna today. First one I had a very sore shoulder for two days that took another 3 to clear up. A little bit of arthritic pain in my hands that lasted for like an hour. So far today I am probably 60-70% as sore as the last time at this point in the day. No other symptoms.

Both my parents got Pfizer #1 last Friday and neither had any issue with it.

 

[berth]

Update: she says she's never had aches this bad in her life

Fever 101.6

Here's hoping her fever broke and she's feeling better after a nights rest.

 

[Abacinator]

Her temp was back to normal this morning and she's feeling good

 

[ejv]

Ok so about 2 hours ago started to get chills. Not terrible but some general body aches to go with it. Shoulder not as sore as first but I didn't have any of this chills the first go around. This makes it about 24 hours after injection.

 

[gixxerjeff]

What groups are you folks in that are getting the vaccine?

I work for a residential treatment facility. The group I fall in is healthcare.

Got my 2nd Moderna today. First one I had a very sore shoulder for two days that took another 3 to clear up. A little bit of arthritic pain in my hands that lasted for like an hour. So far today I am probably 60-70% as sore as the last time at this point in the day. No other symptoms.

My 1st Moderna shot was 2 weeks ago resulting in a sore arm for a couple of days.
I got shot #2 yesterday and confess it kinda kicked my ass. I got it at noon and by 2:00pm I had a crushing headache that lasted until early this morning and my arm feels like I ate shit on my bike. I can barely lift it.
FWIW, half of my company got the second shot yesterday and about half of those people called in sick today.
Still, no complaints from me. I'm grateful to have it.

 

[dravnx]

GF got her first Moderna yesterday morning. She was a little tired in the afternoon so she took a nap. Nothing else. Woke up today feeling fine.

 

[ejv]

I work for a residential treatment facility. The group I fall in is healthcare.

My 1st Moderna shot was 2 weeks ago resulting in a sore arm for a couple of days.
I got shot #2 yesterday and confess it kinda kicked my ass. I got it at noon and by 2:00pm I had a crushing headache that lasted until early this morning and my arm feels like I ate shit on my bike. I can barely lift it.
FWIW, half of my company got the second shot yesterday and about half of those people called in sick today.
Still, no complaints from me. I'm grateful to have it.

Yeah the headache is building as I write. I've felt plenty worse before but if not for working from home, I wouldn't be working today.

 

[Lucky Jones]

Got my first poke of the Pfizer this afternoon through the County Office of Education.

Sore arm. But, I've not moved it around much.

So far, so good - got a little "disconnected" in my perception (vision vs. brain) a couple hours after, but back to normal now. Felt a little "floaty" - like my eyes were looking at things, but my brain wasn't "focusing" on what they were. Like when you get super tired, or "space out" for a bit.

Second dose is on 3/17, already scheduled through the County Office.

Will update if any drastic changes.

 

[Akira-R]

My inlaws got pfizer today, 1st shot. They are in their early 70's. Not complaining about any soreness or symptoms. They got it done at Washington Hospital.

 

[Bay Arean]

Got mine at 1 pm yesterday probably around the same time as Lucky. My arm hurts like hell but that developed in the evening and is now at its worst. I don’t feel anything else. It;s allergy season so feeling woozy and achy upstairs is common so I am hard-pressed to attribute that to shot. Rough night though, not being able to turn in sleep. Got a bad hip on other side of body so it was a restless night. Oh yeah, it was a Pfizer shot and next is March 19.

To those hoping to make a return appointment, bring yer goddam cellphone! They insist on doing a verification text or email. I left my phone at work and had to log on one of their laptops with my own email to complete the process. Nothing but anxiety and regrets for doing that, security-wise.

 

[BillSmith]

Shot with Moderna yesterday around 10am. I'm old enough and in the educator-meeting-with-kids grouping. i.e., I coach a high school sport.

No symptoms. None. Zero, zilch, nada. Such that gives one pause to wonder...

Are they giving a placebo version for double-blind testing? :confused

 

[Bay Arean]

Shot with Moderna yesterday around 10am. I'm old enough and in the educator-meeting-with-kids grouping. i.e., I coach a high school sport.

No symptoms. None. Zero, zilch, nada. Such that gives one pause to wonder...

Are they giving a placebo version for double-blind testing? :confused

Well, I wasn't expecting the first shot to be anything. Ms. BA's first was pretty mild, though she did get a weird hand rash about 3 days later that disappeared within hours. Her second shot was more like my first, with a very sore arm and some fatigue.

An open society placebo test. Wow. Simmah down, now!:laughing

 

[ejv]

So last night sucked but feeling much better today. I suspect people with weaker immune systems just aren't having much response to the vaccine. My mom is 71 and has had pneumonia many times. My dad is a bit younger but is going through chemo for AML so his white blood cell count is already messed up low anyhow. They both had Pfizer last week and reported no soreness or general crappy feeling.

 

[bojangle]

So last night sucked but feeling much better today. I suspect people with weaker immune systems just aren't having much response to the vaccine. My mom is 71 and has had pneumonia many times. My dad is a bit younger but is going through chemo for AML so his white blood cell count is already messed up low anyhow. They both had Pfizer last week and reported no soreness or general crappy feeling.

Since I already had covid, the first vaccine I received kicked my ass. I woke up the next day feeling like I hadn't slept. My arm was VERY sore. I wanted to nap all day. Later in the day I got a fever and chills. The next night I tossed and turned, sweating in my sleep. The second day after vaccination I felt a lot better than the day before, but I still had a sore arm, sore lymph nodes, felt tired, and felt generally unwell, like my body had gone through the ringer. My neck felt like I needed to crack it, but couldn't. By the third day I was back to normal.

 

[Akira-R]

I wonder if it's hitting those who had covid before harder? Might be hard to tell, because some people might have had covid, but never got tested or was just asymptomatic.

 

[Bay Arean]

Since I already had covid, the first vaccine I received kicked my ass. I woke up the next day feeling like I hadn't slept. My arm was VERY sore. I wanted to nap all day. Later in the day I got a fever and chills. The next night I tossed and turned, sweating in my sleep. The second day after vaccination I felt a lot better than the day before, but I still had a sore arm, sore lymph nodes, felt tired, and felt generally unwell, like my body had gone through the ringer. My neck felt like I needed to crack it, but couldn't. By the third day I was back to normal.

I didn't know there was a relationship of previous infection to getting vaccine.

Like I said earlier, my arm got very sore, and still is. Today, I have a monster migraine, but I get them anyway at this later stage of life so I can't say that it has anything to do with vaccine. Weird. Given my imagination, it's hard not to think maybe I had it, but I haven't had fever and chills.

In the course of the last year, I definitely had some moments that I was sure I had it but who knows....I didn't bother testing until this January, when I once again thot I had it but it was negative.

 

[ScottRNelson]

I wonder if it's hitting those who had covid before harder? Might be hard to tell, because some people might have had covid, but never got tested or was just asymptomatic.

I read recently that if you've already had Covid and get the vaccine, you'll have much stronger symptoms than a person who has not had it. Possibly stronger than the second dose for those who haven't had it. It also said that they're trying to determine if you even need the second dose if you've had it already.

Looked for it, but couldn't find the article. It was probably from ArsTechnica.com