Sharing COVID-19 vaccination personal experience

[davidu]

I copied my post from another LRH thread. This looks like a more appropriate place for it. I apologize for the same response on two different threads. Received my second Moderna COVID vaccination on Friday. Some people have experienced more reactions to the second dose and I was one of those folks. Headache, malaise, chills and body aches lasted for 36 hours. My two friends, one 65 and his dad 86 didn't have these post vaccination reactions. This is non internet based real life info on three individual's experience after a second dose of "the vaccine".

 

[xsn10s]

Aye Sir! Thanks. I am slowly working up on my cardio and trying hard to be a good patient. I have been doing a 3-mile hike with my dog on weekends, and it takes me 45-minutes longer than I used to.

That's really good! There were days after I got ill that I had no energy at all. So a three mile hike is doing well as long as your doc cleared it.

 

[chris ross]

This can be a hard decision for most and boils down to a personal matter, regardless of reasoning. I understand that the longitudinal side effects will not be known for a while, just like any other vaccines or medicines out there. My installation was offering it for civilian employees, so I took it. I know that there are members that have experience COVID-19 or have taken the vaccines. We also lost a dear friend with it. The goal of this post is simply to share real-world personal experiences.

I got my first shot (Moderna) on Jan 28. The second shot is scheduled for Feb 25. I had a sore on the injection area, slight body aches, feverish feeling, but my temperature is 98F.

You know the rules ... let's keep it real and civil. Cheers!

Ed

I had my second Moderna shot last Friday and outside of a sore arm, it went smooth and no problems.

 

[Eric_F]

My 63 year old mom had a little pain at the injection site and headache after the second Moderna shot, that was it. My 65 year old dad had basically no symptoms after the first Pfizer shot, waiting on the second.

I'm in the Phase 3 trial for Novavax, and got my second shot yesterday. It's a 2/3 chance it's the real thing, and my arm is much more sore than the first shot so I think it's not the placebo, but just a headache otherwise.
Update: Pretty tired all day, but that's at least partially from having a newborn.

 

[xsn10s]

Okay my 88 year old mother and I received our 2nd dose on Thursday (2/18/21). She had a slightly sore arm, nothing more. I was awoken that night at 1:13AM with some strong body chills. Turned up the thermostat to 74 degrees, put on a hoodie and tried to go back to sleep. I've been going through flu like symptoms of fatigue, slight fever, and malaise. Today I woke up feeling good, but soon went back to the flu like symptoms. Ibuprofen and drive on, the Army way lol.

 

[cowboy]

Wife and I both got our 2nd (Pfizer) shots yesterday at noon. All went well until about 2 AM. Wife got severe chills, 101F temp, and could hardly lift her arm. Feeling pretty bad by daylight. She thought some toast and oatmeal in bed was what she needed. .. It's been 30 hours and she's finally starting to feel a little more human again.

I never had any side effects at all and even no pain at injection point.

 

[MOFlatlander]

I'm 71, wife is 70, we got our 1st Pfizer vaccine Jan 28. No problems whatsoever. Received our 2nd shot 2 days ago. Again no problems. Just like a regular flu shot. Did it so we can see family one of these days. My Africa trip scheduled for last April got canceled and moved to this April. It's now canceled and moved to this September. With the South African covid variant who knows.

 

[chris ross]

I'm 71, wife is 70, we got our 1st Pfizer vaccine Jan 28. No problems whatsoever. Received our 2nd shot 2 days ago. Again no problems. Just like a regular flu shot. Did it so we can see family one of these days. My Africa trip scheduled for last April got canceled and moved to this April. It's now canceled and moved to this September. With the South African covid variant who knows.

I'm almost 70 and like you, no problems. I had my 2nd Moderna shot this past Friday and outside of a sore arm, I'm fine. Heading to the Gulf Coast in a couple of weeks on a fishing trip.
Luckily, we went back to Africa in 2019, but had to cancel an Amazon fishing trip last summer.

 

[bigdumboy]

My family came down with the virus we Quarantine for 14 days there's eight of us in the house the only two that didn't test positive was my nine-year-old son and my 15-year-old daughter. My wife and I are scheduled for first shots on February 22 I have two sisters at are nurse practitioners and they both suggest that we get our shots. Stay healthy and God bless

My wife and I received our first shot this morning Pfizer no side affects as of yet. Second scheduled for March 15.
Stay safe and God bless

 

[Varmint Hunter]

Here's one for the record:

My buddy received his second Pfizer shot on Feb 15th. He just received a notification that the vial wasn't kept cold enough and that he's got to go back for a third shot!

UPDATE: Tonight the issue hit the news. Apparently 81 people received insufficiently chilled vaccine and need to get a third shot. I guess when you're administering over 1,000,000 per day, things happen.

 

[Okanogan]

My wife and i have both gotten 2 pfizer shots each with no ill effects. Glad to see so many members getting access to the vaccine.

 

[epags]

Received my second Moderna COVID vaccination on Friday. Some people have experienced more reactions to the second dose and I was one of those folks. Headache, malaise, chills and body aches lasted for 36 hours. My two friends, one 65 and his dad 86 didn't have these post vaccination reactions. This is non internet based real life info on three individual's experience after a second dose of "the vaccine".

Ditto for the Modena second shot. First shot like a flu shot, very slight soreness at injection lasting 24 to 36 hours. Yesterday @ 10:30 AM got my second shot. About 8 to 9 hours later got shaking chills and had to go to bed to warm up. During the night I kept waking up every couple of hours coughing and shaking. Fell asleep about 3 AM. Stomach felt upset almost to the point of tossing my cookies. Got up about 6:30 AM, had a small bowl of cereal and went back to bed. Sleep ;very soundly until 1:30 PM today. Feeling better still feel cold but not shaking.
If this is the result of a immunization shot I shudder to think what having the Covid 19 would be like.
PS: I am 81 and was in good health (until I had the second shot). LOL

 

[Eric_F]

You can get a vaccine after recovering, and an ER doc friend of mine did (and she was fine, if that keeps it on topic). There is some evidence that your antibodies are sky high after one dose though, so a second may be unnecessary.

The official FDA / CDC recommendations will still be to get both doses just because only one hasn't been studied (in a large blinded trial) and they're really (overly imo) cautious.

Another edit: The very few documented reinfections have been from people who had asymptomatic infections the first time, so if you aren't sure you had it you may not have mounted a lasting immune response so getting a vaccine would be good regardless.

 

[FEENIX]

I got my 2nd Moderna vaccine at 0815 today, and so far, so good.

UPDATE (2/26/0815): 24-H later. I got up at 0330 (normal), a little sweaty (slept through the night), but all is well—no pain on the shot area.

Ed