Guess the reaction

[My427stang]

Don't really want you guys to scare me with Incredible Hulk or death forecasts, but going to get my 1st COVID vaccine on Saturday. 

Please don't come back and tell me why I shouldn't, I have been world wide deployable for 26 years, you wouldn't believe how many shots I have had...what's one more LOL

Will update the change in my body as I morph to a new super being   Seriously though, I will let you know which version of the vaccine I got, and what it does to me in terms of symptoms etc to allow you to make your own choices.

[1964Fastback]

I'm guessing just a low fever (< 100.5) and tiredness for a couple of days, not due to being sick, just as your body gets busy building up the antibodies indicated by the vaccine.  That's how you know it's working.  Good luck!

Pat

P.S. Does the closest without going over get a free t-shirt or stickers? 

[MRadke]

I had the Pfizer on Wednesday and have had zero reaction unless you count a bruised feeling at the puncture site.  If I weren't doing some traveling, I probably wouldn't have done it.

[cjshaker]

If you come back spouting off about how great big block chevys are, that'll be enough to convince me that it's about mind control. 

[jayb]

My wife has had both shots, since she is a physician and works with Covid patients on a daily basis.  She also has allergies and has gone into anaphylactic (sp?) shock a few times in her life, so she is prone to a reaction to the shots.  She got the Pfizer vaccine.  Her first shot just made her arm sore for a couple days, but the second shot caused her to feel short of breath and feverish within about 15 minutes of receiving it.  They gave her a couple of doses of steriods and epinephrine, but after a few hours she was still feeling the effects, so out of an abundance of caution they threw her in the hospital for observation overnight.  While I was there in the room with her it was entertaining to see all her doctor and other friends at the hospital come in and give her a hard time about it 

Anyway, she is fine now, and doesn't regret getting the shots.  Since we sleep in the same bed, I'm feeling a little better about the whole thing myself...

[HarleyJack17]

Millage varies. Known of all kinds of reactions, from mild, to wild, but none threatening.
You want to really start some crap, ask some nurses or people in general if you need the vaccine if you have had a good case of covid-19 and beat it. When they tell you you do, ask them why the antibodies from the vaccine are better than the real deal, or which lasts longer.
Seem logic and the rules of science and nature have escaped even the "brightest" of our society.  Really all 7th grade science.

I had the real deal and caught it from a resp. therapist friend of mine. He thinks it is all bs, it is not, and like most stuff somewhere in the middle is likely correct. But of all the places I have been and people I have seen, a friend gets in my car, no mask, and coughs on me. 36 hours later I am laid up with severe aches, pains, chills. Day 3 smell was gone and got tested. Actually could smell puke and knew that meant I had it from stories of others I know. Luckily that faded.  Mornings I was fine, cruddy feeling, noon on in to night it got worse and worse. Definitely came from Bats in a lab if you ask me and my redneck logic. Rinse Repeat every day for about a week. Aches and Pains quit after day 3 which was worst pain around 10 pm. My kidneys felt like they were trying to get out of my body.  Then about 5 days of covid brain....oxygen showed to be fine, but I don't think it was....almost had a trip in an ambulance but quick thinking on my daughter and hit the inhaler a few times and slowly went away. Never had trouble breathing, O2 looked fine on pulseox, just felt like a weight on my chest. Never even coughed or sneezed. But somehow my brain was lacking something....put me in shock before we figured it out. After that anytime covid brain started I would hit the inhaler and bam, it went away.  Feeling way wasted is not fun if it is not the real stuff! Delirium unwillingly bites!
 
Only putting this out there for people since while it may seem fine...it is not and maybe my experience can help someone if they come down with it.  Not this sickest I have been but close, and darn sure don't want to do it again. It was as weird as it was sucky.  The whole fine in am and almost dead at night was strange!!!!  Also, I share a house with 4 people and NO ONE got sick. We used caution but not staying on opposite ends. Illness does not travel that way. Coughing and Sneezing and transferring those fluids will do it fast....but you can't just look at it and get it. Funny how the media ran articles last week saying the new strain is even more contagious....funny to me since I don't know how the hell they can top the scare of the regular covid-19....I mean hell just talking on the phone you could catch it from the other end(sarcasm).  It is real, it can be dangerous, especially the older you are, or health issues but common sense still applies.

Still waiting on a response if I can get a Covid travel card with no vaccine. Definitely should!

[427Fastback]

I had the virus a year ago...I have never had good lungs and it hit me hard.Three times i thought I was going to die from respitory failure..I did take a ride in a ambulance..I know where i got it and he was not affected by it..I did not give it to Mary...We are all different..

Isnt the vaccine made by the same people that make Viagra....Side effects could be interesting...lol

[MRadke]

Isnt the vaccine made by the same people that make Viagra....Side effects could be interesting...lol

Can only hope! LOL

[shady]

Well, they say it causes swelling at the injection site. Maybe drop your pants instead of rolling up your sleeve.


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[gregaba]

Go ahead and get it. All though my symptoms were not as bad as Harlyjack17 they were still no fun.
My friend of over 40 years gave it to me and he died from it in 6 days.
Greg

[cammerfe]

About mid-january of last year, I developed a VERY significant cough. I have had a chronic cough for ten years or more caused by nasal difficulties and this was in addition to the usual. I would have periods of coughing so severe as to strain my diaphragm and had to resort to leaning against a door-jamb for support to try to limit the spasms. I lost taste and smell and felt just generally 'blah' for more than two weeks. At the time, no one was even talking about covid.

Several days after the drastic cough eased off, I woke up in the middle of the night with a sore arm. I tried to get in a position to get some relief, and then realized I was also feeling the effects of GERD. That combo was enough to wake my wife and go to the hospital. They kept me all that day and did tests and by the next morning they decided that I'd had a heart attack. They went in through my right wrist and implanted four stents. They attempted a bypass and settled for the stents.

Shortly after I came home the talk started regarding Covid. I spoke with the hospital staff and they seemed to have no particular concern.

I have now had a blood-draw test to detect covid and the test came back negative. A good friend who is an MD says that the potential drawback to the anti-virus inoculations is that some part of the manufactured material actually attaches man-made details to the gene string. This has potential problems for women of child-bearing age.

I expect to get the vaccine sometime in the next few days. I will be 80 years old in may.

Good luck to all.

KS

[Tommy-T]

Mrs.-T and myself will be done with our 14 day quarantine this coming weekend after our positive covid tests.
Neither of us were really sick, my wife had/has a cough and I got some body aches and would get tired by the end of the day. Neither of us ever had a fever or any of the other symptoms. I have had the regular flu many times worse than covid-19. I guess we were lucky.

We will get the vaccine when it's available. The thought of having a virus that indiscriminately kills while not knowing you have it and are contagious weighs heavy on me. We are not young but must be in reasonable shape for covid to not make either of us sick. I got tested because Mrs.-T made me. She got tested because a co-worker of hers got sick with it.

On edit to the original poster:
Ross, yer nuts will probably shrivel up.

[My427stang]

Awesome info and laughs from everyone, makes me miss being in the military, although I still work on the base. 

That's the reason I am getting in, base of approx 5000 people, deploying worldwide, visitors in and out of the base, they are treating us as if we have likelihood of contact.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the scary part of life with COVID

[My427stang]

My wife has had both shots, since she is a physician and works with Covid patients on a daily basis.  She also has allergies and has gone into anaphylactic (sp?) shock a few times in her life, so she is prone to a reaction to the shots.  She got the Pfizer vaccine.  Her first shot just made her arm sore for a couple days, but the second shot caused her to feel short of breath and feverish within about 15 minutes of receiving it.  They gave her a couple of doses of steriods and epinephrine, but after a few hours she was still feeling the effects, so out of an abundance of caution they threw her in the hospital for observation overnight.  While I was there in the room with her it was entertaining to see all her doctor and other friends at the hospital come in and give her a hard time about it 

Anyway, she is fine now, and doesn't regret getting the shots.  Since we sleep in the same bed, I'm feeling a little better about the whole thing myself...

Thanks for this Jay, may daughter is a teacher, all kinds of funky allergies and has not gone into any anaphylactic shock, but does carry an epipen.  She has been leery to get it, but I think she is changing her mind.  I'll make sure she is talking to the doc and gets it in some sort of controlled setting

[410bruce]

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