I gotta fly back east next week for a conference, then fly home, have a day here, then fly to San Antonio for a few days with my wife for a family thing. I want to have some protection...
Well vaccines are supposed to trigger an immune response what you're feeling is the same thing you would feel if you got sick because essentially you did get sick it's just it's a weekend virus and it's a lot easier for your body to fight it. Take your typical cold and flu remedies that should make you feel better.
Best NOT to take anything. Let the vaccine work.
I got the Shingrix regimen too. No problem with the injection site either time. No issues with the first one. I woke up two days after the second one feeling like doody. It wasn’t until midday I realized why.
Oddly, I, too, was more impacted with discomfort by my second shot. But I feel better now with both of them behind me, at least with some peace of mind, if nothing else. Those who I've known to come down with Shingles, including family members, suffered enormously for several weeks.
I'm telling you, it IS a sign that you have a healthy immune system, it's the difference between ending up in the hospital on a ventilator and "three days of the sniffles" which is what my second bout with COVID consisted of, but my shots did make me feel awful for a day or two when I got them.
I was straight Pfizer for my entire three page card. Now they tell me they don't care about the cards anymore, and they were out of the new Pfizer shots.
Because you feel like crap does not mean you have a healthy immune system anymore than feeling great after means you have a healthy immune system. Feeling like crap after the injection means you feel like crap after injection—nothing more.
Nope. It means nothing other than you’re having reaction symptoms.Wrong.
When your body receives an mRNA vaccine, it leaves "instructions" for antibodies to fight the virus and the reason you feel bad is because your antibodies think it is time to gear up for war. If you even bother to study up on how an mRNA vax works you will see scientific descriptions on the mechanism that is at work in your body.
Or...if you want the simplified explanation...
XKCD
I’ve had many dozen injections. I spent a lot of time in Manaus, Brasil and had every immunization shot that was even remotely recommended. Later I worked for a company that required the whole regimen of shots if you traveled to Japan. I think they were protecting the Japanese. I get my flu shot annually. Got my Shingles shots. Never had a problem. When I got my second COVID-19 shot, they must have caught a nerve and it hurt for several months. No problem with the next booster. When I complained to my physician that my arm still hurt from the second, he looked at me like I was some kind of anti vax kook and wanted nothing to do with the discussion.
I’ve never bothered with the flu shot because the history of its use reveals that their success at guessing which strain will surface as dominant in any given year is only about 38 to 42% - if they’re lucky.
Agreed, but age has to be a factor in the degree of illness and the time to recover. This is my first flu shot for a long time. I had it once as a teen and never since.
I’ll be 71 next month, and I’ve become circumspect about my vaccines, too. I recently finished my shingles vaccines, and I’ll be looking for my final updated COVID booster soon. My PCP gave me something she said prevents pneumonia, so I’m hoping it does.
I have had no side effects since the original two shots, and that was just a low grade fever.
