Have you had your booster jab (jag) ?

[platinumsage]

Side effects seem a bit of a lottery. Was sent to A&E after my first AZ, but had no effects whatsoever after my second. Have my fingers crossed for the booster, I can live with flu-like symptoms but don't want anything weird.

 

[Dovydaitis]

Just for a giggle, I’ve had my flu jab today 3 days after my booster. I’m awaiting painful armpit coupled with cold symptoms

 

[gentlegreen]

Just for a giggle, I’ve had my flu jab today 3 days after my booster. I’m awaiting painful armpit coupled with cold symptoms

same arm ?

 

[bluescreen]

Had my Moderna booster yesterday. First jabs were AZ.
No ill effects from either.

 

[planetgeli]

Had my Moderna booster yesterday. First jabs were AZ.
No ill effects from either.

Exactly the same as my partner (though she only had her Moderna this morning).

 

[Numbers]

Just had me booster (Moderna, AZ 1st time like others) and just waiting to be allowed to leave.

Mrs N had hers y/day, also Moderna, and has had nothing more than a dead arm, she didn’t have any ill effects first time around whereas I did.

 

[fishfinger]

Just had my Pfizer booster.

Edit: Because I was a big brave boy, I got a sticker

 

[surreybrowncap]

Happy - had booster last Friday
Sad - I've reached the age deemed necessary to warrant it......!

 

[gentlegreen]

By the sounds of it, NOVAVAX are all set to make updated boosters so we may get to try the moth-cell protein tech later
So long as Peru doesn't run out of Quillaja tree juice ...

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Had Pfizer booster yesterday after queuing for an hour in the rain in Croydon. I wondered if that willingness to queue so long and haphazardly was partly omicron generated anxiety

 

[cupid_stunt]

Had Pfizer booster yesterday after queuing for an hour in the rain in Croydon. I wondered if that willingness to queue so long and haphazardly was partly omicron generated anxiety

An hour?

Was this a walk-in centre, or did you have an appointment?

 

[platinumsage]

Hearing lots of people with appointments are queuing for a long time due to lots of walk-ins joining queues. In most places there isn't a separate queue for appointees.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

By the sounds of it, NOVAVAX are all set to make updated boosters so we may get to try the moth-cell protein tech later

You'll be able to tell who has had such a vaccine, as they'll be strangely attracted to bright lights.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

An hour?

Was this a walk-in centre, or did you have an appointment?

It was as platinumsage said: walk in's and appointments in the same queue and no one available to ask who was who
Really different experience from first and second dose where we were channelled into fairly comfortable indoor waiting spaces with lots of vaccination stations

If I was a walk in for my first or second jab I think the weather and wait and chaos might have changed my mind on waiting

 

[Numbers]

I have been wiped out since having the booster y/day morning. I fell asleep about 2pm y/day and only woke up for a cpl of hours when my wife got home from a day out.

2am this morning I woke up rattling, mad fever, awful headache, aches everywhere and if I could have cut my arm off I would have it was that painful.

Still feel achey and shit now. Wtf like, was the same when I had the original jabs.

 

[Wilf]

I have been wiped out since having the booster y/day morning. I fell asleep about 2pm y/day and only woke up for a cpl of hours when my wife got home from a day out.

2am this morning I woke up rattling, mad fever, awful headache, aches everywhere and if I could have cut my arm off I would have it was that painful.

Still feel achey and shit now. Wtf like, was the same when I had the original jabs.

Only good thing to say is that you must have a strong immune system for that to happen.

 

[kittyP]

Had mine yesterday.
Pfizer like the other 2.
Feel absolutely fine apart from a slightly achy arm.
Well, and I am freezing but I think that is more my appallingly insulated flat.

 

[19sixtysix]

Got Pfizer and flu on Sat. Was hoping to be forced to rest but apart from sore arms I've been fine. Looks like work in morning :-(

 

[Saffy]

Have just booked mine for 6th Jan but wasn't even given the option for the huge vaccination centre down the road. I was hoping to get it a little sooner but I'll take what I can get!

 

[Epona]

I'm due mine on Friday.

I have an appointment booked, I really hope I don't have to queue or wait. I had to queue for my first vaccination for over an hour despite being booked in at a certain time. Due to autism and being in an unknown place with unknown procedures, uncertainty about what was happening, and a general medical stuff phobia - the main feature of which is a massive phobia of needles - I ended up having a bit of a meltdown in the queue.

 

[BCBlues]

I've had Pfizer for all three now, flu jab too and had a dose of Covid in August so I'm a bit more confident this winter but still a bit tentative about this new variant.

It's been a long hard battle for us all.

 

[Numbers]

The booster doesn’t / wouldn’t cause this would it. 2 positive LFTs this morning, still feel dreadful.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The booster doesn’t / wouldn’t cause this would it. 2 positive LFTs this morning, still feel dreadful.

I don't think the vaccines can result in positive test results, because they don't contain any of the virus.

 

[2hats]

The booster doesn’t / wouldn’t cause this would it. 2 positive LFTs this morning, still feel dreadful.

No. UK approved vaccines produce spike. The antigen LFTs [should] test for [regions of] nucleocapsid. You should seek a PCR test.

 

[Numbers]

Thanks, I have one booked this morning.

 

[planetgeli]

The booster doesn’t / wouldn’t cause this would it. 2 positive LFTs this morning, still feel dreadful.

They are ridiculously thin lines on the T. Positive LFTs I've seen have produced deep red lines like you get on the control.

But probably positive. Get a PCR and good luck.

 

[Dovydaitis]

same arm ?

No, different.

Still getting pain in the booster arm pit.

 

[StoneRoad]

Numbers - Agreed, get a PCR [ah, already booked] and good luck.

 

[StoneRoad]

No, different.

Still getting pain in the booster arm pit.

I would report that onto the yellow card scheme.

If there is a distinct point source for the pain, or swelling, I would also try to see [F2F] your GP.

 

[hitmouse]

Sorry if this has already been covered, but... I had my first shot via an appointment booked through my GP, then got my second at a walk-in clinic. As a result, my GP was sending me texts for a while asking me to book my second shot, and then after a while the central NHS or whoever runs in the walk-in clinics was also sending me texts asking the same thing. I was a bit worried about the recordkeeping but I do seem to be able to get an adequate vaccine pass thing (as far as I can tell, it's just a QR code so fuck knows what it says, and I've not been asked for it that much) so presumably there's proper records somewhere. Anyway, I was wondering whether this might affect me getting called up at the right time for the booster? Although I've just checked now and it looks like my second dose wasn't till late June anyway, so don't think I'm due it for a while yet.