Have You Gotten Your Covid Vaccine? Thread.

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Brovane

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We were traveling to Spain and Germany to visit our former exchange students and probably caught it on one of the many planes we flew on. We were also (stupidly) a lot laxer with masking on this trip.

By the end of the trip we were pretty run down because British Airways fucked up pretty much every leg of our trip. (We had tried to fly to Europe on BA back in 2020 which for obvious reasons was cancelled and we had until this summer to use our credit or lose it.)

Anyway the wife started to feel like she had a mild cold on the flight back. I started to feel it the following day. She mostly had mild symptoms except for the loss of smell which is almost back now.

It's just one of many circulating respiratory viruses now. Unfortunately everyone will be getting sick with COVID-19 multiple times over their lives.

I still wonder why it is so mild for some and really puts some people through the wringer. Glad to hear you are feeling better.
 
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Ajay

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I used paxlovid (& a steroid) last month when I finally caught the damn thing (was fully vaxxed including the first bivalent dose). I didn’t enjoy it but I also didn’t end up in the hospital.

It did stop most of my symptoms (nasty sinus congestion and the beginnings of a bad cough), but I still felt completely wiped out and it took a week before my sense of smell started coming back. It’s about 95% back a month later.

After coming off the paxlovid I spent the next 3-4 days with horrible acid indigestion and gastrointestinal issues. Whether that was a reaction to the Paxlovid, rebound COVID gut issues, or I ate something spoiled because I couldn’t taste anything and had food poising I don’t know. After 9-10 days from first symptoms and 4 days after the last of the paxlovid I finally started to feel better.

While on the paxlovid I also had a nasty musty smell in my nose and weird mouth feel which is a known side effect.

Finally the last weird thing was after I started feeling better I broke out with acne like I was 17 again. It’s just finally subsiding.
Well, while that clearly sucks - I'm glad you didn't wind up in the hospital, or worse. Good luck with your continued recovery!
 
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I used paxlovid (& a steroid) last month when I finally caught the damn thing (was fully vaxxed including the first bivalent dose). I didn’t enjoy it but I also didn’t end up in the hospital.

It did stop most of my symptoms (nasty sinus congestion and the beginnings of a bad cough), but I still felt completely wiped out and it took a week before my sense of smell started coming back. It’s about 95% back a month later.

After coming off the paxlovid I spent the next 3-4 days with horrible acid indigestion and gastrointestinal issues. Whether that was a reaction to the Paxlovid, rebound COVID gut issues, or I ate something spoiled because I couldn’t taste anything and had food poising I don’t know. After 9-10 days from first symptoms and 4 days after the last of the paxlovid I finally started to feel better.

While on the paxlovid I also had a nasty musty smell in my nose and weird mouth feel which is a known side effect.

Finally the last weird thing was after I started feeling better I broke out with acne like I was 17 again. It’s just finally subsiding.
I had it after a trip to Vegas with my family. Took paxlovid, but the symptoms were pretty severe for the first couple of days. Had a fever of 104 the first night, and almost went to the hospital, but the fever finally decreased to around 100. Stayed covid positive for almost ten days, had really horrible dreams and mental disruption (no jokes please). Got very severe gastrointestinal upset with severe vomiting (which I hadnt done since I was a kid) some time after I thought the Covid was over. Dont know if it was just random or related to the covid.
 

Paratus

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Good lord! I'm booked to fly 500 miles to see my family at a big family affair weekend of May 13-14, got my 2nd bivalent yesterday. My reaction to the shot has been nearly absent. Maybe a tiny bit of soreness in the arm, a little more tired than usual in the morning but a couple hours later, nothing noticeable. I have IMO terrific 3M N95 masks to burn. I take them with me everywhere and indoors with others I wear one. I don't know how I am going to behave in Southern California in mid-May. I sure don't want to experience anything like you describe! I'm not even sure I want to go now! :) I haven't seen my family except for my sister and a cousin a time or two since just before the pandemic lockdowns started. TBH I don't miss them that much, but those "reunions" are positive events for me. Maybe they will do stuff outdoors.
I had it after a trip to Vegas with my family. Took paxlovid, but the symptoms were pretty severe for the first couple of days. Had a fever of 104 the first night, and almost went to the hospital, but the fever finally decreased to around 100. Stayed covid positive for almost ten days, had really horrible dreams and mental disruption (no jokes please). Got very severe gastrointestinal upset with severe vomiting (which I hadnt done since I was a kid) some time after I thought the Covid was over. Dont know if it was just random or related to the covid.
Similar here, but I never had a temperature over about 99.3.
 

Muse

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Similar here, but I never had a temperature over about 99.3.
Had 2nd bivalent 53 hours ago. Was tired this morning. Arm soreness actually worse today than yesterday but don't notice unless I bump it.

Got a message this evening from general manager of our 99% volunteer run college radio station that someone who was in the station yesterday afternoon has tested positive, but was there "for a short time" and masked. I was there all afternoon, so certainly coincided with that person's being there. I was doing my radio show for 3 of those hours, so was unmasked. The GM refused to identify who it was for privacy concerns, so I'm in the dark about who it was, when, exactly where they were. I guess I'll monitor for symptoms and test on Monday with antigen test. :oops:
 

JTsyo

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What are the R values for the current strains over the original? Each version that spread nationally is tagged as much more transmissible.
 

Paratus

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Had 2nd bivalent 53 hours ago. Was tired this morning. Arm soreness actually worse today than yesterday but don't notice unless I bump it.

Got a message this evening from general manager of our 99% volunteer run college radio station that someone who was in the station yesterday afternoon has tested positive, but was there "for a short time" and masked. I was there all afternoon, so certainly coincided with that person's being there. I was doing my radio show for 3 of those hours, so was unmasked. The GM refused to identify who it was for privacy concerns, so I'm in the dark about who it was, when, exactly where they were. I guess I'll monitor for symptoms and test on Monday with antigen test. :oops:
Good Luck! You're likely at a low risk if they were masked and you're vaxxed. Fingers crossed!
 

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Good Luck! You're likely at a low risk if they were masked and you're vaxxed. Fingers crossed!
IF they were masked. The truth may have taken a back seat on that one.

I'm vaxxed, but it's been over 7 1/2 months since I got the first bivalent Moderna booster. The day I shared space with a person who tested positive the next day (i.e. 2 days ago) was one day after I got my 2nd Moderna bivalent booster. Info I see online indicates that my immunity will not have been boosted in the least from what it was before getting Tuesday's shot. Also, info is that 7 1/2 months from that first bivalent booster I can expect practically no immunity to be in effect against the Omicron virus currently circulating. TBH I'm pissed off. I sent my doctor a question a few weeks ago asking about getting a 2nd bivalent booster. That was already approved in some overseas countries but not in the USA until about a week ago.

I'm not terribly nervous or anything, but I did spend a couple hours last night scouring the internet for info. Info is sketchy, fragmented, incomplete. Nobody knows a whole lot.
 
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In my amateurs' opinion it appears that nearly anyone who is not nearly dead to begin with and they have had their shots & booster(s) they typically just get sick from COVID for a few days then recover. They basically ride it out at home.
Makes sense because as far as your body is concerned it has had a COVID infect 3 to 4 times and it knows what to do to get better, your immune system just needs time to figure it out and it seems to know enough to not over react when you get a real infection. Our bodies are pretty amazing.
 

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In my amateurs' opinion it appears that nearly anyone who is not nearly dead to begin with and they have had their shots & booster(s) they typically just get sick from COVID for a few days then recover. They basically ride it out at home.
Makes sense because as far as your body is concerned it has had a COVID infect 3 to 4 times and it knows what to do to get better, your immune system just needs time to figure it out and it seems to know enough to not over react when you get a real infection. Our bodies are pretty amazing.
Nice Disney fairy tale there. Read @Paratus' account above of his recent encounter with Covid-19.
 

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Well let’s be fair here. The loss of smell was concerning, I was pretty sick for a good 8-10 days and gastrointestinal issues sucked.

However I never spiked a fever and I was checking my pulse ox and blood pressure both of which stayed reasonably normal.

So I wasn’t in to much danger as it turned out (of course I didn’t know that was going to be the case until it was. I also had 4 vaccines and the antiviral)

I rate my COVID experience as 3rd worst infection. Behind Mono and a bout of the flu that turned into pneumonia when I was 6 (I was sick for a month)
 
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I rate my COVID experience as 3rd worst infection. Behind Mono and a bout of the flu that turned into pneumonia when I was 6 (I was sick for a month)
Yeah, it was still pretty bad, worrisome, and TBH I figure the threat of long covid is not absent. You don't know exactly what happened. I figure nobody who catches covid-19 does.
 

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What to make of a few studies that indicate death from covid is genetic? Edit: That may or may not conflict with other studies that indicate there were fewer deaths from covid in US counties with high vaccination rates back in the worst part of the pandemic.
 
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Muse

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My 6th Moderna vaccination, one week ago, got close to no physical response from me. Moderate shoulder soreness I would never notice if I didn't bump it on something. No fever, tiredness next morning not dissimilar from wake-up grogginess, which I forgot about in an hour or two.
 

Oyeve

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I am hesitant on getting another shot. Last 2 really effed me up. Not looking forward to being bedridden for 2 more days.
 

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I am hesitant on getting another shot. Last 2 really effed me up. Not looking forward to being bedridden for 2 more days.
Moderna conks you out. Pfizer has less side effects (tiredness/fever) and thats the one I took and would recommend.
 
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Moderna conks you out. Pfizer has less side effects (tiredness/fever) and thats the one I took and would recommend.
The side effects profiles are pretty similar between the two, but we also can't really directly compare them because they haven't been studied head to head. Also, how side effects are collected on a trial could differ, making such comparisons even more difficult.

The best thing to do is to get whatever new vaccine you can get as soon as you are eligible.
 
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Getting my software update tomorrow at CVS.
I would be doing the same, but have to wait till October thanks to a new job and a gap in health insurance for September. I refuse to pay the absurd COBRA premium (unless I get hit by a bus or something extremely catastrophic).
 
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