Which jab did you have - Astra Zeneca or Pfizer? And what side effects?

[Treacle Toes]

I got mine (Pfizer) last night. I'm feeling very tired and quite spacey today. And my arm's a bit sore.

I also got a sticker! A friend who's volunteering as a marshall person said they don't have stickers and she's now insanely jealous.

I didn't get a sticker, the swines!

 

[sojourner]

Spoke to someone earlier who isn't a medic but has a good working knowledge of this stuff due to family health issues. She said that strong reactions to the virus may be an indication that your immune system is working well and that as a result older folks are not getting quite the same side effects. Don't know if that's true or even a truism, but it sounds reasonable. Anyway, there's a silver lining in there if you are feeling rough after the vaxx.

That was our theory too.

 

[two sheds]

Was it LynnDoyleCooper who gave the alternative suggestion that it was as likely psychosomatic?

 

[Treacle Toes]

That was our theory too.

My immune system is strong. I very rarely get ill. I have no symptoms at all.

 

[LDC]

Was it LynnDoyleCooper who gave the alternative suggestion that it was as likely psychosomatic?

There's been some very good studies showing side effects as connected to expectations of them, shown when people are given placebos. Personally I think it's also connected to people's levels of things like anxiety, plus of course the random things that might have happened to them anyway like getting ill just afterwards by chance.

But also I admit I'm ruined by hippies who go on about about having nonsense side effects from things like looking at a box of paracetamol.

 

[two sheds]

But also I admit I'm ruined by hippies who go on about about having nonsense side effects from things like looking at a box of paracetamol.

Well yes but if it's in blue packaging then you can't argue with it.

 

[planetgeli]

The theory of immune system being good equalling stronger reaction just doesn't stand up when comparing the two vaccines. Why aren't people with strong immune system getting reactions to Pfizer?

It has to be down to the way the vaccines are working in the body. Not how the body is working.

 

[weltweit]

I didn't get a sticker, the swines!

I got a card with details of my vaccine and a space for the second one.

 

[gentlegreen]

Day 5 and I felt well enough to sit up at my PC - had breakfast, but a little too comfortable with the w

The theory of immune system being good equalling stronger reaction just doesn't stand up when comparing the two vaccines. Why aren't people with strong immune system getting reactions to Pfizer?

It has to be down to the way the vaccines are working in the body. Not how the body is working.

I figured it would be proportionate to the number of cells sucessfully invaded by the vaccine and then destroyed prematurely when the immune system leaps on the manufactured spike proteins ...
It is surely going to be far fewer than with a live virus infecting cells exponentially and rupturing them theselves ?

 

[Glitter]

I didn't get a sticker, the swines!

I got a card with details of my vaccine and a space for the second one.

I got a fiver off voucher for Boots. I think I win.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I got a card with details of my vaccine and a space for the second one.

yes me too.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I got a fiver off voucher for Boots. I think I win.

 

[Sue]

I got a card with details of my vaccine and a space for the second one.

Yes, but I also got a sticker!

ETA A friend who went to the same place as me didn't just get a sticker. He was so enthusiastic about the sticker, the women offered to give him a free visor too.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I didn't get a sticker, the swines!

I said no to the sticker.

But also I admit I'm ruined by hippies who go on about about having nonsense side effects from things like looking at a box of paracetamol.

If you look at a box of paracetamol intently for long enough you will get a headache

Day 5 and I felt well enough to sit up at my PC - had breakfast, but a little too comfortable with the w

Glad you're feeling better

 

[Treacle Toes]

I said no to the sticker.

 

[gentlegreen]

Glad you're feeling better

thanks.
I preemptively went back to bed late morning just as I started to cool down and tire - so no crazy temperature swings.
Bonkers for a deliberately piddly infection to feel like a real one ...
And usually infections pin you down and not fool you into getting up too soon..

 

[planetgeli]

Two very elderly people in Australia have been given 4x the proper dose of Pfizer.

They're ok so far. Doctor has been 'stood down'.

Doctor did not get vaccine training before giving two Brisbane nursing home residents excessive Pfizer dose

Doctor stood down after erroneously giving four times recommended dose of Covid vaccine

www.theguardian.com

 

[Wilf]

Two very elderly people in Australia have been given 4x the proper dose of Pfizer.

They're ok so far. Doctor has been 'stood down'.

Doctor did not get vaccine training before giving two Brisbane nursing home residents excessive Pfizer dose

Doctor stood down after erroneously giving four times recommended dose of Covid vaccine

www.theguardian.com

I used to work in a skills drop in place for students at the university where I work. I hardly ever did it as there was another bloke covering maths, but a fair bit of the traffic was student nurses doing 'drug calculations'. Importance of the decimal point and all that.

 

[gentlegreen]

[Lucky it wasn't an opioid or digitalis or something.

 

[Chilli.s]

Got the AZ one yesterday, no ill effects yet.

 

[StoneRoad]

Apart from some residual tiredness, I seem to be well over the mildish side-effects.

 

[two sheds]

how you doing gentlegreen ?

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I used to work in a skills drop in place for students at the university where I work. I hardly ever did it as there was another bloke covering maths, but a fair bit of the traffic was student nurses doing 'drug calculations'. Importance of the decimal point and all that.

everything is a poison
it's the dose that does it

 

[Sue]

everything is a poison
it's the dose that does it

And the less you have, the more poisonous it is. Or something.

 

[gentlegreen]

how you doing gentlegreen ?

Thanks ...I'm having to consciously take things easy... but not popping paracetomols any more .
hopefully tomorrow I'll have a bath and be up to be going to the supermarket
I suspect 4 months of total vegging hasn't helped.

 

[gentlegreen]

And the less you have, the more poisonous it is. Or something.

but according to homeopathic rules poison then becomes good

 

[prunus]

Thanks ...I'm having to consciously take things easy... but not popping paracetomols any more .
hopefully tomorrow I'll have a bath and be up to be going to the supermarket
I suspect 4 months of total vegging hasn't helped.

I think you are supposed to self-isolate for 10 days if you have had a fever over 38C, which I think you said you did? Can you get delivery/someone to bring you stuff rather than going out to a supermarket?

 

[prunus]

I think you are supposed to self-isolate for 10 days if you have had a fever over 38C, which I think you said you did? Can you get delivery/someone to bring you stuff rather than going out to a supermarket?

Sorry, no, that may be wrong, I think there’s an exemption for fever within 48 hours of a vaccine. As you were. Enjoy the supermarket.

 

[gentlegreen]

No way was this covid !
Not least because they were powerful symptoms, but zero respiratory ones.
I will double mask in any case...

 

[William of Walworth]

Two very elderly people in Australia have been given 4 x the proper dose of Pfizer.

They're ok so far.

I bet they are!!