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If it isn't too personal a question, can you tell me what the side effects have been like, if any? I was reading Sherwood Smith's blog a little while ago & it sounds as though she had quite a bad reaction to one of her doses. (Bad, only in the sense of being uncomfortable for a while. I'm trying to establish a baseline expectation for how much work I'll be able to do when the vaccine reaches us here, in six months or so, fingers crossed).
My reaction was trivial, no more arm soreness than I'd get from a flu vaccine. No other problems. I was tired the day-of, but that was from sleeping badly the night before. (I have chronic insomnia -- nothing to do with the vaccine.) I chanced to get the Pfizer that day, fwiw, tho' I was quite willing to take pot-luck.
Dose 2, well, we'll see in a couple of weeks. But I'm not too concerned.
What a happy miracle vaccines are! I was thinking about all the ones I've had in my lifetime, from the first and second polio morphs back in grade school to tetanus to mmr to dpt to whatever weird things we had before that zoology study tour to E. Africa in the early 70s that they had to haul us students to the local air force base to get. I'm old enough to have a smallpox vaccine scar, too. And, now, they even have one for pneumonia. And cervical cancer, though that's a non-issue for me post-hysterectomy. Vaccines are a blessing.
Ta, L.
Thank you! Passing this on to my mother & sister, who are both in the high vulnerability group for Covid. Pfizer is the vaccine we're getting in New Zealand, so your report is is especially useful to us.
Well, most any biological thing exists on a bell curve of some sort, and there will always be variability on the ends. But I really think the bulk of folks in the middle-ish won't have any severe problems. (Which of course, won't be highlighted in the news because there's no exciting and profitable click-bait to be squeezed from it.)
Ta, L.
I got the Modern (two shots). Only side effect a sore arm and maybe fatigue though that's an ongoing problem so hard to tell
I've had friends and family have side effects from their second shot but the most they amount to is a day of flu-like symptoms, body aches, slightly elevated temperature etc
Yep, and any of these minor complaints beats the hell out of choking to death on one's own disintegrating lungs in a cytokine storm.
Really.
L.
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If it isn't too personal a question, can you tell me what the side effects have been like, if any? I was reading Sherwood Smith's blog a little while ago & it sounds as though she had quite a bad reaction to one of her doses. (Bad, only in the sense of being uncomfortable for a while. I'm trying to establish a baseline expectation for how much work I'll be able to do when the vaccine reaches us here, in six months or so, fingers crossed).
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My reaction was trivial, no more arm soreness than I'd get from a flu vaccine. No other problems. I was tired the day-of, but that was from sleeping badly the night before. (I have chronic insomnia -- nothing to do with the vaccine.) I chanced to get the Pfizer that day, fwiw, tho' I was quite willing to take pot-luck.Dose 2, well, we'll see in a couple of weeks. But I'm not too concerned.
What a happy miracle vaccines are! I was thinking about all the ones I've had in my lifetime, from the first and second polio morphs back in grade school to tetanus to mmr to dpt to whatever weird things we had before that zoology study tour to E. Africa in the early 70s that they had to haul us students to the local air force base to get. I'm old enough to have a smallpox vaccine scar, too. And, now, they even have one for pneumonia. And cervical cancer, though that's a non-issue for me post-hysterectomy. Vaccines are a blessing.
Ta, L.
Thank you! Passing this on to my mother & sister, who are both in the high vulnerability group for Covid. Pfizer is the vaccine we're getting in New Zealand, so your report is is especially useful to us.
Well, most any biological thing exists on a bell curve of some sort, and there will always be variability on the ends. But I really think the bulk of folks in the middle-ish won't have any severe problems. (Which of course, won't be highlighted in the news because there's no exciting and profitable click-bait to be squeezed from it.) Ta, L.
I got the Modern (two shots). Only side effect a sore arm and maybe fatigue though that's an ongoing problem so hard to tell
I've had friends and family have side effects from their second shot but the most they amount to is a day of flu-like symptoms, body aches, slightly elevated temperature etc
Yep, and any of these minor complaints beats the hell out of choking to death on one's own disintegrating lungs in a cytokine storm.Really.
L.
