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Covid Booster Reports
By: Steve Date: September 11, 2024, 6:30 pm
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I thought that there should be a thread for people to share
their experiences with receiving Covid booster vaccines. Do you
have strong reactions? Weak? Do you receive Pfizer, Moderna,
Novavax or (especially if you are not from the U.S.) another
brand?
Granted, this topic was not created to 'shame' others in any way
in order to receive the booster sooner than convenient. Everyone
has their own schedule and reasons for why and when they receive
their booster.
Instead, it is a topic to celebrate the fact that you have
received a booster and that you do care about protecting
yourself and others from the current strains of Covid-19 that is
currently circulating throughout the population.
I will start the topic off by saying that I have received the
latest Covid-19 booster (Moderna). I am about three hours
removed from receiving it. I tend to have strong reactions to
these boosters; Therefore, I am a bit apprehensive about what
the effects may be. As of right now, all that I have is a bit of
soreness at the area of injection. My reactions tend to occur
about 12 hours after injection so it should be interesting how I
fare this time around.
While I would normally have waited for a Friday so that I could
take Saturday as a recovery day, the opportunity was there to
receive one today and so I did. There was no line; My family was
the only one waiting for the booster.
So, please, post here when you receive your booster and share
your experiences about it.
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Re: Covid Booster Reports
By: Data Report Date: September 11, 2024, 7:55 pm
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Just shared this thread on 3 social media platforms. I intend to
get my Novavax booster when it is available at the place I got
mine last time. I filled out an inquiry form for it today, so I
am notified when it is in.
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Re: Covid Booster Reports
By: Steve Date: September 12, 2024, 9:19 am
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My update:
I am currently at home recovering from my Covid booster shot.
To reiterate the timeline (all times local), I got my shot at
around 4:30 PM yesterday (2024-09-11) and prior experience led
me to know that I have both strong reactions and that those
reactions hit about 12 hours after receiving the vaccine.
I was fairly normal through 4-430 AM. There was an increase of
soreness at the injection site but nothing that would have
caused me to not go to work. I always get shots on my
non-dominant arm in order to have more options as to how to
function normally. There was a bit of body ache and
light-headedness but it didn't seem to hamper my morning routine
too much.
By the time I was traveling to work, my thought was always in
having an early day and leaving work early regardless of the
outcome - Go in, perform all of the critical assignments and, if
I wasn't improving, leave. I'm not a CEO; The organization can
survive without me for one day.
After performing initial tasks at work, I was not improving and,
I felt, I was slowly getting worse. I knew about my prior
history with Covid shots / boosters and I had to make a judgment
call as to whether I could drive home safely. After an hour at
work, I left shortly before 6 AM. At that time, I didn't feel
significantly worse but I still wasn't feeling better. Also,
while performing work assignments, brain fog had caused me to
make errors that I would not have normally made. Also, I was
sucking down a lot more water than usual for a typical day.
I drove home and immediately got into PJs. By 6:30 AM, my
condition had degraded to the point where, had I been driving,
my ability to drive would have been significant degraded to the
point of potentially harming myself and/or others.
By 7 AM I was lying in bed or under the covers. My body
temperature felt very high regardless of how much water I drank.
Until 9:30 AM, I was incapacitated to the point where walking,
talking and concentrating on even basic stimuli (such as
watching TV) was not conducive to recovery. Since 9:30 AM I have
slowly felt better to the point where I am currently writing
this post.
At this current time, I am improving but still feel achy. My
biggest improvement is comprehension and the ability to perform
basic-to-moderate tasks (such as writing this post). I still
feel as though I have an elevated temperature.
Good luck to the rest of you out there.
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Re: Covid Booster Reports
By: Steve Date: September 13, 2024, 2:13 pm
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A further update:
At this point, I feel that the effects of the Covid booster are
over. Yesterday was mostly dominated with sluggishness, brain
fog and tiredness. I tried eating a very late dinner yesterday
of chicken noodle soup and that took a lot of time to finish.
However, I had a mostly normal breakfast and (for all intents
and purposes) a normal lunch.
This morning, there was some sluggishness and weakness (likely
because of the lack of appetite from yesterday). I do not feel
as though I still have that sluggishness now. If I had to make
an estimation, I would say that at noontime, today, I was
completely capable of going to work and performing all of my
work-related tasks with near-normal efficiency.
To condense the timeline of events (times are approximate):
** 4:30 PM (Wednesday) Received booster.
** 4:00 AM (Thursday) Slight brain fog, Slight-to-moderate
sluggishness
** 6:00 AM (Thursday) Rapidly increasing brain fog, sluggishness
& tiredness.
** 6:30 - 9:30 AM (Thursday) Severe brain fog, sluggishness &
tiredness. Functionally bedridden.
** 9:30 AM - 7:00 PM (Thursday) Slow improvements in recovery
with relapses. Intermittently bedridden, capable of shuffling
around but no capacity to run, jog or even quickly walk.
** 2:00 AM (Friday) Brain fog has realistically lifted
** 4:00 AM (Friday) Still some sluggishness and weakness; Still
did not trust myself to operate heavy machinery (such as an
automobile) but I suppose I could have in an emergency.
** 11:00 AM (Friday) The first time I considered myself
"functionally near normal" to the point where I could operate
heavy machinery without any concern or perform job-related tasks
with no significant loss in efficiency.
I don't write these experiences to discourage anyone from
getting the Covid-19 booster. Get the Covid-19 booster. I write
this so that others may base their own experiences off of this
one and to compare notes. I consider my reactions to the
Covid-19 shots to be strong. Yours may, and will likely, be
different.
Good luck to the rest of you out there.
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