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AZ. No side effects at all.
Cycled to docs today to be given AZ this morning. Felt like a dead-arm at the site for an hour or so when cycling doing chores after, but no other effects yet. Fingers crossed none.
46 had AZ 3 weeks ago. Felt rough ever since. Retreated back to bed the day after, significant man flu for 3 days, bad abdominal pain for a week, headaches. Still achy all over, noticeable weakness exercising and exhaustion for days after a few hours ride, which has low amusement value. Caveat being that have long term chronic condition with whack immune system element. Just spoke to my mate who is a cancer survivor and he feels exactly the same after AZ, he feels similar but not as bad as when he caught covid a year ago...
Daughter and I have both had AZ. Both of came down with chimp flu for 24 hrs, hers started straight away mine took 12 hours to kick in. Shivers, sweats, aches, fatigue, normal flu stuff.
Supposedly it’s the second dose of pfizer that gets you, vs first dose of AZ.
I'm hoping that's the case but even if it isn't considering what the possible alternative is its worth it.
Woke up at 2am and had an overwhelming desire to play my guitar, when I got back into bed my wife said she was really cold, but she was like a blast furnace to touch.
Both of us feel a bit underpar this morning, on the positive side I've nailed the chord progression for Make it rain.
60 hours after my AZ jab and no reactions.
I think I’m in the clear. Mrs Zip was symptom free as well.
We both had the jab at 6pm, went home and chilled. Next day we chilled.
Maybe rest is important after the jab.
22 hours in. AZ. Dose 1. Age 62.
Upper arm is tender to the touch, but very localised.
Slight headache that I've had since yesterday. Not enough to warrant painkillers.
Feels like I'm waiting for a train to hit me. 😊
52, AZ jab at 5pm yesterday. Solid nights sleep, feeling ok, even my arm. Today's exercise will be a leisurely stroll and then a precautionary afternoon on the sofa watching a cycle race.
46 had AZ 3 weeks ago. Felt rough ever since. Retreated back to bed the day after, significant man flu for 3 days, bad abdominal pain for a week, headaches. Still achy all over, noticeable weakness exercising and exhaustion for days after a few hours ride, which has low amusement value. Caveat being that have long term chronic condition with whack immune system element. Just spoke to my mate who is a cancer survivor and he feels exactly the same after AZ, he feels similar but not as bad as when he caught covid a year ago…
As per my earlier post, was jabbed with AZ last Sunday, had a rough Monday and half of Tuesday, then felt great Wednesday, but Thursday and Friday have been quite unpleasant and today has the feel of being the same. I'm a covid long hauler and it seems to be hitting some of us like this with a revival of classic LH symptoms and what feels like a tumble drier shake-up. A long hauler mate had similar, but then improved massively after a week.
One theory is that long haulers still have active virus hidden in hard to reach corners and the vaccine gives your immune system the boost it needs to clean them out. Here's hoping because after making steady progress since New Year, I currently feel bloody awful 🙁
Update:
AZ jab in the morning. Short cycle ride home. Sore arm. Normal day.
4 mile stroll in the evening before sleep. No effects except for slightly sore/bruised-feeling arm at injection-site.
Woke feeling cold 4am during mad intense dreams of flying. Went to fetch water but was shivering quite violently (!) Proper teeth chattering and ‘vehvuhvevuhveuh!’
Spilled water from the glass as the shivering was so uncontrollable. Weird. Took paracetamol and ibuprofen. Feel pretty much OK now but lost a few hours sleep, we’ll see. Rest seems possibly sensible but am itching to get busy.
AZ yesterday. Poor night's sleep and a banging headache. No other symptoms.
Under the circumstances I'll take that!
46 and had the AZ at 11:30 yesterday.
Was fine until around 9pm, then my legs felt like lead, headache started.
By 10pm I was in bed shivering, sweating, aching and feeling like crap.
Kept taking paracetamol and drank plenty of water through the night.
Shivering and sweating has stopped, now just have a mild headache and sore legs.
Phoned in sick as I just feel knackered.My wife who’s 45 had the Pfizer one about 4 weeks ago. She just had a mild cold and thick head for half of the day after.
Well 48 hrs later, headache has gone but had another odd nights sleep - minor sweats, and even after a shower this morning I'm still having the odd cold sweats moments.
Having effectively been isolating for a year and managing to avoid the Covid - what I'm interested in is what is the correlation between having a strong immune response to the vaccine, with it's associated unpleasant but well worth it initial side effects - and a likely adverse long covid type reaction if having encountered the real thing? Not really seen this mentioned much, maybe its not really known.
I’m interested in is what is the correlation between having a strong immune response to the vaccine, with it’s associated unpleasant but well worth it initial side effects – and a likely adverse long covid type reaction if having encountered the real thing? Not really seen this mentioned much, maybe its not really known.
I think the short answer will be that nobody knows. The BBC article linked earlier in this thread is worth a read if you've not seen it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56375307
66 Had AZ jab. Walked to and from the vaccination centre without issue. Had a sore arm for about 24 hours and felt a few percent below par for the next day, but otherwise was fine.
55. AZ on Friday. Feeling rough today. Paracetamol, sleeping, and watching junk on TV.
Not helped by one of our dogs deciding to whack me with her paw where I had been vaccinated. My own fault for not giving her 101% of my attention.
54, AZ jab @ 1300 on Thursday, didn't feel a thing - slight headache that evening but fine next day & been for 22 mile ride with some steep climbs with no problems.
AZ this morning, feeling fine at 5pm. I've spent the day doing diy so i can blame the sore arms on that rather than the vaccine. Looking forward to wild nightmares tonight, fingers crossed!
So far so good. Jabbed at 3pm yesterday. Cycled 10 miles off road to the appointment, jabbed, and cycled back. Really efficient service at the Tennis Centre at Etihad (Manchester).
Very mild soreness near the injection site, and just feel achy and stiff today, but I think that's because I did 20 miles on the 90's rigid MTB.
I think exercising before and after makes a difference and reduces any soreness.
Had mine a month ago (age 48) (AZ) and was feeling smug for the first 12hrs then it hit me, couldn't get out of bed without help for near enough a week as my muscle tone was locked rigid, felt utterly drained and a month later im still not fully recovered - im usually feeling exhausted due to my spms but this is a totally different level of exhaustion and deep aches/pain in joints etc, I should say ive got a very active immune system so my MS consultant is continuing to monitor my recovery, and I'll get tested for my antibody response to the first dose before a second dose is considered.
My Mum (age 66) had the vaccine a week before me, she felt a wee bit off for a day then got straight back into her 15miles a day walking regime.
Her friend wasn't so fortunate (age 68-she had breast cancer a few years ago-fully recovered though), ended up in hospital for near enough a month, she's getting home t'day. Started with bruising on her skin and feeling drained then she collapsed and was taken into hospital with a platelet count of 13000/ml which is somewhat less than ideal (150000-400000/ml), all tests were done as they thought it may be leukaemia/mylodysplasia/blood cancer etc but all came back clear - she was on multiple daily platelet iv's which dropped back down to critical levels within hours of infusion, vit k, plasma amongst a raft of other stuff I can't remember but then went into shock due to all the blood transfusions so was put on steroids and crypto something to calm her immune response down - touch n' go for a while as they couldn't find a reason for her low platelets. Thankfully over the past 5 days her platelet count has gradually risen to 45000/ml and continues to rise on a daily basis but she'll need further transfusions. A report has been made of all her hospital notes and condition/treatment etc and been sent to AZ, the consultants haven't came out and said it was an immune response to the vaccine but they can't rule it out as everything else has been tested and given the all clear.
Her husband who usually is the type who cries "man-flu" at every opportunity didn't experience any side effects whatsoever from his AZ vaccination.
No post jab effects for me 48 hours later, I had the AZ one.
51 here - both of us had Covid at the end of Jan. AZ vaccine gave me us a sore arm for a few days. Both had flu-like symptoms the next day for one day. Fine ever since
Been a bit tired since my jab but not too bad, Mrs kilo has been wiped out most of today and had a headache so a slight minus, but on the positive I got to watch Milan - San Remo almost in its entirety so every cloud etc
I had my AZ vaccine at 11:20 this morning and I don't seem to have any side effects yet other than my wifi router rebooted when I walked in the house which is a good one for conspiracy theorists I am sure.
Throw your router away, you’re now fully 5G compliant.
Wife had her first jab 7 weeks ago & 2nd Jab 1 week ago. Both times only a sore arm for 48hrs. I had 1st Jab 5 weeks ago with only a sore arm for 48hrs. Both of us had Pfizer & over 60
24 hours on, feeling a bit tired but nothing worse, not even a sore arm. Leisurely stroll with a mate this morning, hoping to have an easy ride tomorrow.
Has the A Z at 6pm yesterday ,felt ok after went to bed at 10-30 as work this morning at 6-30am... Woke at 3.30am aching and just could get back to sleep properly, in work at 7am drank loads of juice and coffee and was a tad sweaty, home at 10am and ive been wrecked ever since, lethargic. I felt the same way for a day back in March 2020 a week after my wife and father in law returned back from Teneriffe .....it lasted a day then too a good nights sleep and i felt brand new last time, fingers crossed I can report back the same tomorrow.
If having had the virus and having antibodies makes a bad reaction to the vaccine more likely, does that also mean that second doses are more likely to lead to a bad/bigger reaction?
If having had the virus and having antibodies makes a bad reaction to the vaccine more likely, does that also mean that second doses are more likely to lead to a bad/bigger reaction?
I've seen a couple of suggestions that the Pfizer seems to give a more pronounced reaction on the second dose, but the AZ is the other way round.
53 had mine on Thursday and 64 two weeks ago. Both had AZ and no symptoms. Been out riding all day and no problems.
If having had the virus and having antibodies makes a bad reaction to the vaccine more likely, does that also mean that second doses are more likely to lead to a bad/bigger reaction?
The greater your immune response to the vaccine ie : feeling flu’y, aches pains etc the better as it means your body has developed a strong antibody response to the vaccine, I’d be more concerned about having zero immune response to the vaccine ie : you felt pretty much normal with no ill effects.
My antibody count will be measured before the consultant decides whether I should take the 2nd dose.
A week on from the AZ I feel almost human. I posted on the asthma vaccine thread but basically 12 hours was slight temp and shaking, 24 hours stinking headache, 40 hours burning up and hives breaking out. Antihistamine sorted the hives after a couple of hours but I have felt crap all week and only today had the headache and fatigue started to lift.
No idea if I am allowed the second AZ jab or switching to Pfizer, that is down to my GP to decide.
^^ I don't think they switch jabs mate? They may at some point but AZ and Pfizer are very different types of vaccine.
The AZ vaccine is a double stranded DNA type vaccine and the others are single stranded RNA, good description of them Here
Well after my smug posting from earlier it hit me at about mid day. Moving around felt like walking in chest deep water. Took myself to bed with a GoT box set and after 8 hours things have perked up.
So I would recommend plenty of water, paracetamol, tits and dragons.
@poopscoop switching to Pfizer is what my GP has said is likely to happen. As I came out in hives they assume allergy and I've been told they won't likely let me have another AZ jab as they can't predict how bad the reaction could be.
I've not seen any stats on minor allergic reactions but GP said I'm the only one she knows of.
The greater your immune response to the vaccine ie : feeling flu’y, aches pains etc the better as it means your body has developed a strong antibody response to the vaccine, I’d be more concerned about having zero immune response to the vaccine ie : you felt pretty much normal with no ill effects.
There’s little evidence that ‘no pain, no gain’ is true for vaccines. In fact, around 50% of people don’t have side effects from being given the C19 vaccine but the efficacy is in the 90% range.
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@poopscoop switching to Pfizer is what my GP has said is likely to happen. As I came out in hives they assume allergy
Thanks for the info, that's the first I've head of that so good to know. Hopefully for people with no sever reactions they get the same 2nd vaccine as first.
Good luck with the second jab mate, I had no reaction to the Pfizer one at all, not even an achy arm.
I heard on radio 4 that AZ is worse for 1st dose reactions but Phizer is worse for 2nd.
11:20 jab this morning with AZ and no effects at all. I have balanced mine with 2 Duval in the 1 hour sauna and 2 bottles of Pinot Grigio to follow. I pray that vaccine doesn't give me a headache in the morning
AZ today. None so far. Mrs TiRed had Pfizer and the worst tender arm. Will see how thing go. I’ve had covid so maybe I’m already neutralising the vaccine generated spike protein.
Had my vaccine on Friday- felt okay this morning but got gradually worse during the day - just lethargic, occasional shakes and generally feeling off it.
AZ Saturday morning, nearly 24hrs now and the injection site feels bruised, but that's it. I didn't have any issues sleeping either. I'll report any developments if they occur. Age 46.25.
50.
AZ Sat AM.
Bit of tenderness around the injection but apart from that absolutely no side effects whatsoever.
Had it yesterday morning - AZ. Exactly the same as that ^^^