I had the 1st Covid vaccine. I feel awful. High fevers, vomiting, palpitations, body aches. We are being mandated to the Covid vaccine.
I called employee health and they basically said very few people will be exempt from the 2nd vaccine. A lot of young females are having this issue because the being female and already having antibodies.
I don't think I can put myself through this again. They said I'm going to feel even worse with the second.
I worked in a vaccine clinic, a really big one run by Kaiser. A lot of our patients who had really severe symptoms actually had covid not long before; some didn't even know about it. A little later, a lot of patients were told to wait 90 days after known covid infection precisely to avoid being hammered so hard by both shots. Maybe this is what happened to you?
It would have been nice to actually test people first before vaccinating them, but I'm just talking silly talk.
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3 hours ago, momoneypls said:
I worked in a vaccine clinic, a really big one run by Kaiser. A lot of our patients who had really severe symptoms actually had covid not long before; some didn't even know about it. A little later, a lot of patients were told to wait 90 days after known covid infection precisely to avoid being hammered so hard by both shots. Maybe this is what happened to you?
It would have been nice to actually test people first before vaccinating them, but I'm just talking silly talk.
The USA experienced a failure with the CDC test kits in 2020. Did we ever recover from that?
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I had some dizziness and low O2 sats after my first dose, in addition to the usual arm soreness. After my second I felt like death. It completely took me out and I had seemingly every non critical SE I could get: migraine, body aches, chills, high fever, nausea, vomiting, extreme fatigue, diarrhea. Those were some hellish two days. But I got through it and would do it again in a heartbeat now. Get your second dose.
I had mild to moderate expected vaccine-related side effects like injection site soreness, some chills, some myalgia and fatigue, that resolved within 24-36 hours. I was quite happy to feel my immune system doing its thing ? For me, the second dose wasn’t really worse than the first, the symptoms were just a bit different. More fatigued after the first dose, and more of the chills after the second dose. No fever though, just felt like I had one.
Take care!
My exact reaction to both as welll…now expecting a Pfizer booster in less than two months from now if my mother heard the news correctly. Plan if for. Friday afternoon and sleep it off over the weekend I guess.
Hubby had zero reaction except a sore arm the second dose? He’s been in and out of hospital ORs since the beginning-and not the best with precautions when traveling…how he wasn’t exposed or infected to some degree before had asymptomatically is beyond me….but if he was I would expect more of a reaction. Heck, I was living in isolation for almost a year and had more…
Everyone responds differently to the vaccine-either way-it sure as anything beats active covid infection. Many young people are being hospitalized every day right now due to the highly contagious variant that even the vaccine is not that great at preventing active illness…but at least we are less likely to end up 6 ft under afterward….Virus. From. Hell.
Hi sounds like your immune system went into overdrive that’s a good thing! Your antibodies will help you. Why did you get the vaccine now?
Why not get it now? If we had a way to measure everyone's antibody levels before vaccination that would be nice, but an effective, inexpensive test available to all is around the corner but just not here yet.
Meant your a nurse and why did you wait, 90% of those hospitalized w the delta surge are unvaccinated. What about trauma patients, septic shock, DKA etc etc trying to get them critical care beds.
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After reading these posts, I wonder if my vaccinations “took”. I had absolutely NO reaction to either one, other than mild soreness in my arm like you get after a flu shot. Then again, a couple of weeks ago I was on an airplane two rows behind a man who was hocking up God knows what throughout the three-and-a-half-hour flight, so I think if I was going to be sick I would be by now. I hope so, anyway. I haven’t had so much as a cold in years.
Had second dose and it was a doozy,felt like the end for me,aches,chills,arm pain ,red,malaise for day 1 and 2,then slowly better but took more than a week to feel good.
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Just curious. Has anyone heard of the ABO grouping and reaction to COVID vaccines? I have read (someplace, have to look for it) that O type people are having a less severe reaction to both vaccine and disease than B or A types. And A types are the most severe. Anecdotally. I am A pos. My reaction was much more pronounced than was that of my husband, who is O pos.
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I worked in a vaccine clinic, a really big one run by Kaiser. A lot of our patients who had really severe symptoms actually had covid not long before; some didn't even know about it. A little later, a lot of patients were told to wait 90 days after known covid infection precisely to avoid being hammered so hard by both shots. Maybe this is what happened to you?
It would have been nice to actually test people first before vaccinating them, but I'm just talking silly talk.