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Moderna x 3. So far, so good

Same as TMats. Slight soreness at the injection site each time.
 
At the Safeway where I get my shots, the pharm tech (who has given hundreds of them) says that in general, in her experience, the older one is, the less likely one will get a severe reaction. And that's just with the Moderna, which is the only one they give.

Hey, brother, are you calling me old?!?

Wife and I got the Moderna shots in Jan and Feb.
I had a sore arm and she had flu like symptoms for a couple of days.

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Michael
USMC Ret

Mild soreness. Mild flu symptoms for a day after the second shot. Oh, and no COVID despite being around it regularly for the last 10 months. I’d call that a pretty decent effect.

J&J in March plus booster in Nov.

Mild body aches and fatigue for two days around both.

I get weird symptoms from COVID. For me, my blood pressure spikes, I get random night sweats, exhaustion, and any bruising hurts worse than normal. I had bruised my leg before getting my first vaccine shot, and that bruise started hurting twice as bad after the shot kicked in and then magically stopped when the other symptoms wore off. So I didn’t just get a sore arm, I got a sore anything-that-was-already-hurt. I got COVID for real and symptoms lasted four or five days. Then I got the Moderna shots, and for the first shot I had the exact same symptoms for about a day and a half. For the second shot I had the same symptoms for about a day. Of the three events, actually getting COVID sucked much worse than the vaccine shots did. I don’t currently qualify for a booster, but I’d consider getting one if I did. I despise being sick, and will happily take one day of symptoms that I can plan for over randomly being down for most of a week.

- Bret

I had the one and done and my side effects were solely a sore arm at the injection site for couple of days just like with any other injection.

Moderna has screwed me up pretty bad unfortunately.
Got my first jab in August with minor soreness over my entire body mainly over my joints and was completely exhausted for 3 days and then was right as rain.

Not so lucky with the 2nd Moderna shot in September. I have had a headache ever since that does not go away or lessen with Tylenol or Ibuprufen. I also have almost continuous dull muscle and joint pain.
I have moderate pain that begins behind my ears and radiates down my back and out my shoulders.
If I sit for 30 to 40 minutes it gets pretty bad. If I sit for an hour and 15 minutes or so I begin to get woozy/dizzy spells that come in waves until I am able to get up and move about.
This is problematic as I am driving almost every week to visit/take care of my mother who had a stroke and the drive time is just over an hour and 30 minutes so it gets pretty rough toward the end of the drive.
Ibuprufen and Tylenol do nothing. Fortunately the pain and discomfort is mild so it does not really hinder me from doing anything and actually I feel pretty good when I am up being active and doing things.
Fortunately sleep has not been an issue except one night where my whole body was just radiating moderate pain and kept me up for a few hours.
Other than that come 5:30/6:00 I am completely exhausted.

Currently undergoing physical therapy in hopes of getting my nervous system back in check.
1st week of therapy the PT said should be back to normal in 3 weeks.
Yesterday was week 3 of PT and now is hoping for nearly full results in 3 months (5 months total after the 2nd shot) as that seems to be what he is seeing in regard to his other patients that appear to be adversely effected by the jab.

So here is to hoping the issues are gone in a couple months.

I will not be getting the booster!

As for my wife she just had some pretty bad stomach issues for about 3 days after each.

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I received the Pfizer vaccination first shot in January of 2021 with the second shot in February of 2021. I had absolutely zero effects from either dose. Being "fully vaccinated", I had no issues until this September. on 9/24 I noticed that I had some early head cold symptoms. When they were still there on the 25th, I decided to get tested for Covid out of caution, as I have an 87 year old mother that is in deathly fear of dying from the virus. While it took 6 days! to get my test results, by day 3 I was getting sicker and sicker, so I was pretty sure it was a formality to get the positive test result.

My bout with covid was pretty bad. With a supposed under 5% chance of getting covid since I was fully vaccinated, and thus the symptoms were supposed to be mild if infected, that was not my experience. I had 5 days of a pretty bad flu. Each of those 5 days, one of my symptoms would be ridiculously dominant, like one day it was fever and chills, one day was sweating profusely and body aches, one day was liquid bowels....

My doctor, once the covid diagnosis was positive, wrote the order for the monoclonial antibody infusion therapy. No one called from the infusion center to schedule me, and so the doc gave me the number to self schedule. I was told that the qualification for the therapy was down to 7 days from symptom onset from the previous 10 days, and I no longer could get it. My doc kind of lost his mind at that and made a few calls, but I had to go to the ER and present with acute covid symptoms to get the infusion there. That is a story all of its own, how with covid I was instructed to just have a seat (for what ended up being 3.5 hours) in the waiting room and they would call me. I asked if I should sit out in my car and they coudl call me to come in and was told to have a seat. I guess if I infected a few more people there it was just revenue to them. Anyway, ended up getting the IV infusion, still took 4 more days until I felt better but the antibody therapy did alleviate the strength of the symptoms I had. I never lost smell or taste, and it took about 3 full weeks after the infusion for me to have my stamina back. I was laying down at 7pm and just sleeping for the night.

I've got Moderna 1 & 2. No ill effects past a day of mild flu like symptoms on shot 2.

My wife got Pfizer and was fine for both.

My wife and I and one son have had all three. The only symptom has been a mildly sore are that lasted a few days.
One son and his wife who are anti-vaxers both got the Wuhan Flu. His was very mild but she went to hospital and was on the ventilator four days, and oxygen for eight before release. She still felt crappy for about another week. The hospital would not give her any of the"unproven" drugs. The doctor acted as though they did not exist.

I went through my two Pfizer shots last month. The first shot I had a really sore arm, but that was probably more the CVS tech giving it than the medication. Second shot was fine. No problems at all.

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Hey, brother, are you calling me old?!?

If the shoe fits...
 
I just turned 75, and the minor reaction to the vaccine is one of the few blessings I can count based on my age. When I get up in the morning, I sometimes wish I had zerk fittings in my joints.

Moderna 1&2. No side effects for me. My wife got the Pfizer 1&2. No effects for her either.

Last month I asked my cardiologist if I should worry about spike protein blood clots that may be caused by the vaccine. He said the daily low dose aspirin protects against that.

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Last month I asked my cardiologist if I should worry about spike protein blood clots that may be caused by the vaccine. He said the daily low dose aspirin protects against that.

The risk of blood clots from a bad case of Covid is far greater than any risk from the vaccine.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/covid-19-blood-clots

Please: Did you get it? If so, what were the effects?

This thread is not about possibilities or I heard this or I heard that. If possible dangers, etc., must be discussed, please do so in another thread.
Thank you.

Biontech/Pfizer Comfirnaty this March and Mai. A mild soreness at the injection site. No side effects.

I had the Moderna shots in February and March. I noticed I had some slight pain at the injection site, but nothing crazy. The only reason I even mention it is because I get the flu shot every year and a lot of people say that their arm gets sore from a day from that shot and I’ve never experienced any soreness after a vaccine shot before, be it flu, tetanus, whatever. I felt a little tired the day after the second shot, but I can’t even say that was because of the vaccine because I ended up working until 3:00 in the morning at the scene of a minor explosion the day that I got the second shot. So I guess I would say that there were minimal to no side effects for me. I am holding off on the booster shot for now, but will share any experience that I have when and if I get the booster.

My parents, both age 81, had the Pfizer shots back in June (I think) and had no ill effects.

My business partner, in his late 40s and a marathon runner, had a stroke 5 days after the Moderna shot back in early April. He has mostly, but not completely, recovered.

My wife and I will not be getting the shots.

Got my PFE booster Tuesday, woke up Wednesday with a bad headache and some body aches, then chills hit. Was in bed much of the day, thought I'd be fine by Thursday. Took Advil early Thursday and felt fine until about 4pm, got chills again, the dogs helped keep me warm, then I was hot, alternated for a few hours. This morning I feel close to normal. These side effects are a bit worse than my first dose in February. I doubt I'll take another booster, at this point I'm pretty much "screw it, I'll take the virus" and hope it's mild, like it is for most people. I feel a bit taken advantage of, truth be told.