Autumn Booster ? Have you had yours ? [plse change vote when you do]

[Puddy_Tat]

got mine this afternoon (pfizer) and flu jab yesterday - feel ok at the moment

well organised vaccination centre in the broad street mall at reading - it was there this time last year, so think they have got the hang of it by now.

yesterday's flu jab (at a pharmacist in wokingham) was a bit of a shambles - they were doing mix of covid and flu so the nurse (or whatever) doing the jabbing didn't know what anyone wanted until they got in, and for one reason or another they had got more people booked per hour than they could cope with (not quite sure what had led to this) so had to wait over half an hour after appointment time.

for covid, i have now had AZ (first two), moderna (last year's booster) and pfizer (today)

this means i should get a good 5G signal on all networks, doesn't it?

 

[WouldBe]

I got an email from the NHS this morning reminding me of my COVID jab on 28th October .

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I got an email from the NHS this morning reminding me of my COVID jab on 28th October .

a bit over 4 hours after the jab, and i'm starting to feel a lot of aches and pains. meh.

 

[RD2003]

Booked in for 18th, already had a flu jab as was at the docs for something else. Had booster + flu last December and felt rough after, plus having one in each arm made it hard to sleep...

Both jabs always leave me with not only pain and bruising on the arm, but also underarm pain for about a week. It's as if it's in the tendons or muscles of that area.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Feeling a lot better now after a day of feeling low in energy and with arm ache - both have largely dissipated.

 

[Karl Masks]

I am once twice three times a pfizer victim. I now fully await self magnetism with joy. For at least another year

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I feel like crap today - think I did the right thing in taking today off work.

Currently trying to summon up the energy to go back to bed...

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I am once twice three times a pfizer victim. I now fully await self magnetism with joy. For at least another year

makes it harder to lose the house keys

 

[contadino]

Had mine on Friday lunchtime. The usual dead arm feeling by teatime, then knackered with a dull headache until this morning. Mind you, everyone at work has been knocked for 6 by theirs so I'm not complaining.

 

[Karl Masks]

makes it harder to lose the house keys

wait: instructions coming through now. Yes. I will kill him Bill. For your glory. All hail Soros

that 5g is pretty impressive!

 

[WouldBe]

makes it harder to lose the house keys

But harder to put them in the lock.

 

[planetgeli]

Pfizer, right now.

 

[danny la rouge]

Had mine on Thursday. Was a bit rough for a couple of days. Arms still sore.

It was the flu (I usually have the flu jag but couldn’t get it last year due to the pressure on the NHS) plus Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron. Whatever the fuck that is.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Had mine on Thursday. Was a bit rough for a couple of days. Arms still sore.

It was the flu (I usually have the flu jag but couldn’t get it last year due to the pressure on the NHS) plus Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron. Whatever the fuck that is.

Spikevax is the name that Moderna uses.

 

[elbows]

Had mine on Thursday. Was a bit rough for a couple of days. Arms still sore.

It was the flu (I usually have the flu jag but couldn’t get it last year due to the pressure on the NHS) plus Spikevax bivalent Original/Omicron. Whatever the fuck that is.

Its the updated Moderna with omicron as well as the original strain.

 

[weltweit]

I hadn't got myself organised but a call to my GP surgery and they are going to do a flu jab in one arm and a covid booster in the other. Good to get them both done I think.

The receptionist I spoke to, I asked what the booster was? She replied it is the viser. What I asked, I never heard of a visor. Oh, do you mean the Pfiser? Yes she said that is what I was saying visor!

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Had mine on Wednesday (Pfizer), my arm started hurting fairly soon after and lasted until yesterday. Felt a bit tired and sickly on Thursday but it was manageable thankfully.

 

[girasol]

Sitting, waiting to have mine. Spikevax Moderna Bivalent. Which apparently as I read about it, isn't the same as Moderna. But I ticked Moderna on poll.

As my husband just pointed out, I've had the full house of covid vaccines... I forgot to wear mask, as did everyone else. There's a sign on the door saying entry prohibited if not wearing a mask. Even the volunteer isn't wearing one. Or the "vaccinators“

 

[klang]

had mine last Thursday, and caught Covid in the meantime. Just tested positive. Great stuff!

 

[klang]

Even the volunteer isn't wearing one. Or the "vaccinators“

literally no-one but myself when I had mine.
I'm still fairly consistent with masks in busy places, but forgot mine at home last Fri and was on the tube, on a bus, and in a very busy small shop, so I guess that's when I caught it.

 

[girasol]

So, in the end I had the Pfizer-bivalent, not Moderna (which is what the form said I was going to have). They ran out of Moderna, so Pfizer it was. Therefore I haven't yet had the full set. My arm stings already! Instant reaction.

 

[marshall]

Yep, yesterday morning, Pfizer; felt fine, certainly well enough to go see Wet Leg in the evening and have a bit of a bop.

 

[steeplejack]

I had Moderna & flu jab last week and other than a bit of sore arms for a day or so felt fine.

Staff were mostly masked still where I went but I do find it pretty tragic that so few people give a shit about it now.

 

[cupid_stunt]

When I had mine everyone was wearing masks, if someone had turned-up without one, they were given one on entry.

 

[cesare]

All masked when I had mine too.

Edit: actually our flu jabs were in the pharmacy and no masking up there (apart from me)

 

[clicker]

No one masked when I had mine, including all staff. But it was a pharmacy so only 3 staff.

 

[Lurdan]

Had mine in a pharmacy as well. Everyone masked. (This is in Whitechapel where public mask wearing is now an ultra-minority activity).

I'd had the previous booster in the same place. On that occasion there was one woman who was clearly choosing not to wear one. I recall a guy having a little bit of a go about it.

I'm sure there are some people who don't give a shit but that's not everyone. I think there are a much larger number who are still quietly concerned but don't like to 'stand out' by expressing it or doing anything different. It's become one more thing to be silently and privately stressed about on top of all the others.

 

[TopCat]

I have mine booked for tomorrow (covid). Bit dubious given the lack of effectiveness of the last ones plus got unpleasant reaction to some of the previous ones.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I have mine booked for tomorrow (covid). Bit dubious given the lack of effectiveness of the last ones plus got unpleasant reaction to some of the previous ones.

What do you mean by the lack of effectiveness?

They have been very effective in reducing severe illness & death.

 

[TopCat]

What do you mean by the lack of effectiveness?

They have been very effective in reducing severe illness & death.

Lack of effectiveness on preventing catching it.