Covid-19 vaccination experiences

Update: 11 days past shot #2, am still nearly a zombie. The slightest hint of activity knocks me out.

Edit: While I think these vx are a fantastically good accomplishment, I’m wondering if I’d have been better off without it. It required 3 tries to type this - just the edit.
 
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I had the second AZ last week. The day after I had the worse headache ever, it lasted about 10 hours.
A neighbour told me that one local doc is telling people to drink lots of water to prevent the headache.
Someone else I know was in A and E and saw many of the second jabbed coming in with headaches.
 
I'm now 48hrs post 1st dose AZ & i feel like crap. But massively better than i did 12hrs after -which was just dreadful. Dreadful. No different than a bad ME crash but unexpected as i'd been resting 4days prior & being driven to the centre 5mins away wouldn't normally cause the severity of symptoms i had. Fever/chills, all over pain - joint, muscle, skin, & joint stiffness was really bad too. Nausea, dizziness weakness confusion/fog etc ETA i do get all that and more in a crash, but not at the severity - I was weeping with the pain - after that amount of activity.

Just like a crash really, all the usual culprits althouhg fortunately without the severe cognitive impairment, but the muscle pain in jab arm was excruciating on trying to move arm, such that i could barely move it at all, & i was even weaker than usually am in a crash, couldnt even tear the paper wrapping on the dissolvable paracetamol. I also was so weak couldnt hold my urine in & peed whenever i needed - which was a LOT because i also had raging thirst, as i always do when bad. Fortunately was also constipated else who knows what would have happened! lol sorry TMI!

I am now feeling much better - no where near my normal but much better than before. Ugh that was unpleasant but totally worth it. Assuming i eventualy do return to my normal then i've no qualms about having it again - i'm certain covid be much worse and much longer lasting.

BUT i will ensure certain things are in place before i get my next one.... eg i had it in right arm as i sleep on left - which was a good decision, BUT when all your grab rails are positioned for your right arm & you cant move it...
And when you always need the strength from both arms to get off the toilet anyway - one on the door handle one on the grab rail (on the right) & you havent the strength to even tear paper & cant use your right arm at all.... i spent a long time sitting there shivering, completely stuck! So anyone considering which arm to get it in... think on where your grab rails are!
 
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Just a short anecdote - a relative of mine got Covid-19 early last year and had been feeling miserable since. They got the AZ vaccine and are now feeling much better.
That's all I know. I'll try to find out more in a months time.
 
8 days since my first Pfizer vaccine. I will sum up my experience when I feel better.

But a quick question. I have been painfully bloated... Is this a side effect others have experienced?
 
5vforest said:
Lol yeah. Or when your usual symptoms overlap with the official list of COVID symptoms, you learn to be less than forthcoming...
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I applied for and received (next day) a pack of the free rapid lateral flow tests, and had to tick the box of 'not having symptoms' in order to qualify.

The reason I got them is precisely because I get 'covid-19-like' symptoms and if they worsen considerably I thought it wise to have some means of checking (even tho I know the tests aren't failproof).
 
I'm over a month since my AZ. The migraine drugs as taking the edge off the stabbing constant headache but it continues . Muscles feels strange and different. Plus more symptoms

It feels as if something has attacked my muscles. Different to my ME.

Wish there was someone investigating these longer reactions to the vaccine.
 
That sounds like something that it would be worth reporting to your doctor, @ukxmrv. I think the advice is to seek medical help if symptoms of vaccination, including bad headaches, persist after a week or so, especially with the rare instances of blood clots that cause bad headaches after the first week.
 
rvallee said:
I'm seeing some push back from long haulers over the wild claims. The improvements seem to be short-lived for most and many journalists are explicitly seeking out only people who improved, not interested in knowing the denominator. Sadly, the same with the few physicians amplifying those claims, they focus exclusively on improvements, ignoring the whole picture.

To be clear it's obvious that some people do have significant improvement, but the claims of a cure are seriously misleading. Some people have reported one or a few symptoms disappearing, with no change to others, hardly a cure. Some do report just that, a full recovery, or at least remission, but with explicit efforts to ignore the denominator it's impossible to tell how common or rare it is.

Because those claims of the vaccine curing Long Covid are spreading so fast they have traveled the world many times already. It's all over the place.
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One would wonder whether it elicits a placebo response, followed eventually by a crash. A follow up over time would tell us more.
 
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