The Lemon Fool

I had the AZ vaccine yesterday, I have experienced no side effects yet but will wait at least 24 hours before declaring no side effects in the poll.

What has been your experience of having had the vaccine?

No side effects = Nada, nothing, no aching arm, zero.

Mild side effects = aching arm, slight aches elsewhere, mild sore throat or headache etc.

Some side effects, significant aches and pains, tiredness, sore throat, headache etc.

Bad side effects. Any of the above that required going to bed or medication.

Please feel free to explain your own side effects.

I had aching arm with no other side effects - so voted no side effects.
My wife had no side effects at all.

Elkay

Can be hard to tell.

I felt lightheaded afterwards, but that could've been down to sitting in the sun in a less-than-congenial carpark for that post-vaccine 20 minutes while they keep an eye on me (at least until I found myself a spot in the shade). And zonked out in the afternoon, but that's also something I sometimes do. Hence, very mild side effects.

Not relevant to me, but if I'd driven there, it would've been unwise for me to drive home.

I've had greater side-effects from other vaccines in the past, up to and including symptoms as of a mild cold. Or caffeine withdrawal if I don't get my fix!

As I commented here viewtopic.php?f=98&t=27744 I was OK, other than slight soreness in the arm a day or two later. But the wife wasn't very well at all, sickness, took to bed for two days.

Unfortunately a local blabbermouth told her that the second jab is likely to be worse.
I suspect we'll be wanting another poll for the second dose.

V8

redsturgeon wrote:What has been your experience of having had the vaccine?

No side effects = Nada, nothing, no aching arm, zero.

Mild side effects = aching arm, slight aches elsewhere, mild sore throat or headache etc.

Some side effects, significant aches and pains, tiredness, sore throat, headache etc.

Bad side effects. Any of the above that required going to bed or medication.

Please feel free to explain your own side effects.

i was OxAZed one month ago at 2.30pm. Come 8pm that Friday I retired to bed as I felt so ill. No cough, headache or pains but ill in the most general way, like with flu. I think I was running a substantial fever but had no thermometer to check myself. I was awake all night feeling deeply ill and at 6am I gave up and took Paracetamol, which made me feel immediately and wonderfully better.

I then slept for much of the following two days and nights such was my fatigue, even though my feeling of fever was gone. Then at about 6pm Sunday night the fatigue vanished and PING, I was back to normal.

All very strange. I think this suggests I might have already had COVID in the past without realising.


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Mike4 wrote:

redsturgeon wrote:What has been your experience of having had the vaccine?

No side effects = Nada, nothing, no aching arm, zero.

Mild side effects = aching arm, slight aches elsewhere, mild sore throat or headache etc.

Some side effects, significant aches and pains, tiredness, sore throat, headache etc.

Bad side effects. Any of the above that required going to bed or medication.

Please feel free to explain your own side effects.

i was OxAZed one month ago at 2.30pm. Come 8pm that Friday I retired to bed as I felt so ill. No cough, headache or pains but ill in the most general way, like with flu. I think I was running a substantial fever but had no thermometer to check myself. I was awake all night feeling deeply ill and at 6am I gave up and took Paracetamol, which made me feel immediately and wonderfully better.

I then slept for much of the following two days and nights such was my fatigue, even though my feeling of fever was gone. Then at about 6pm Sunday night the fatigue vanished and PING, I was back to normal.

All very strange. I think this suggests I might have already had COVID in the past without realising.


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What did you vote in the poll?

I'd say that was "bad side effects".

John

redsturgeon wrote:What did you vote in the poll?

I'd say that was "bad side effects".

John

I think I voted for mild as no aches, pains, cough etc.

I'll update it as I missed your bit about going to be = bad side effects.

I had the AZ vaccine on Thursday afternoon (interestingly a little before my 60th birthday). No side effects at all for 24 hours, then a very slighly sore arm; tenderness rather than ache, and now that has gone. Mrs MM had vaccine at the same time and reported zero side effects.

MM

PS - we had had a negative test a week before. Also our daughter had the Pfizer vaccine the week before and she had flu like symptoms for two days.

I had my second vaccination yesterday and the aftermath was the same as the first one. A slightly achy arm for 24 hours and that is it. I put "mild' side-effects but truly it was next to nothing.

Pfizer.

Now 36 hours since my AZ injection and I can report no side effects. If I press on the injection site I can feel it but no aching otherwise or anything else.

John

redsturgeon wrote:Now 36 hours since my AZ injection and I can report no side effects. If I press on the injection site I can feel it but no aching otherwise or anything else.

I'm at 24 hours but exactly the same so far John. C.

Lootman wrote:I had my second vaccination yesterday and the aftermath was the same as the first one. A slightly achy arm for 24 hours and that is it. I put "mild' side-effects but truly it was next to nothing..

What's your secret? At the risk of getting far too personal you looked far too young and healthy to be enjoying your second jab already! You are not the Lootman Pfizer are you?

csearle wrote:

Lootman wrote:I had my second vaccination yesterday and the aftermath was the same as the first one. A slightly achy arm for 24 hours and that is it. I put "mild' side-effects but truly it was next to nothing..

What's your secret? At the risk of getting far too personal you looked far too young and healthy to be enjoying your second jab already! You are not the Lootman Pfizer are you?

You are too kind. I had mentioned somewhere else here that I am currently in the US and, in this locality, all over 65's are eligible for vaccinations.

And the US is following the Pfizer recommendation that the second jab should follow 3 weeks after the first.

Am heading home later this month.

Lootman wrote:Am heading home later this month.

Stay safe young man. C.

A few days after my Pfizer, I've been suffering horrible cramp, which is not at all usual for me. Could be coincidence, or could be a side-effect. If the latter then I should upgrade from "slight" to "middling" side-effects!

22 hours after my AZ jab and assuming the side effects don't come in waves I think I'm out on the other side now. I voted "very mild" although I probably made things worse than they needed to be by stubbornly refusing to take medication for about the first 4 hours of my side effects. Once I took meds (Aspirin + Paracetamol) my side effects were gone within a few hours.

I had no side effects at all for the first 12 hours after my first dose then at about 2:00am a gradually worsening headache came on that was distinctly annoying but I wouldn't say bad enough to be called a "splitting headache". I didn't take my temperature but I was sweating a lot in bed so I think I did have some level of fever too. I pretty much didn't sleep a wink until about 8:00am then got maybe a couple of hours of sleep and am now up and about and feeling 100% OK. Overall not too bad at all really.

Interestingly I have had no soreness whatsoever at the injection site. I sleep on my side and with all my tossing and turning in bed last night I must have spent at least half of the time lying on my arm where I had the injection and it wasn't in the slightest bit sore or even tender; it felt just the same as my other arm.

One side effect of the whole process however, one that I hope won't come back and bite me, was that my 15 to 20 minutes in the vaccination centre yesterday exposed me to the most infection risk that I've been in for at least the last 4 months; needlessly so in retrospect.

I'm not sure if others have experienced the same but at the centre I went to the person at the door was asking everyone to swap their mask for a clinic-supplied basic paper surgical mask. It was only when I put that on and went inside that I realised how good the seal is on the mask(*) that I've been using for the last 9 months or so. When wearing the paper mask, even with constant fiddling with the wire nose clip, I just could not get any sort of seal around my nose with my glasses constantly steamed up and the paper on the mask not moving at when I breathed whereas with my normal mask it inflates and deflates like a balloon with each breath. I honestly might as well have not been wearing a mask at all, and that in a crowded indoor space, which is the first time I've been in that situation since November last year (in fact maybe a lot longer than that since I've been avoiding crowded indoor spaces pretty much since the pandemic began of when unavoidable such as supermarkets I've been wearing my proper mask.

In retrospect I'm an idiot. What I should have done is asked the woman at the desk if it was OK if I double-masked and, assuming she said yes (one can never be sure of a rational answer when encountering officialdom), simply worn the useless paper mask on top of my "proper" mask. I'll try that next time.

- Julian

(*) Actually a couple of masks on rotation so that as necessary one can be getting washed and drying out while I'm actively using the other one.

Two weeks since I had the AZN jab.
I have developed a yuk feeling. Headache. That nasty bodily aching feeling you get when ill. Lethargy. What I can only describe as 'dizziness' but the room isn't spinning.
All vital signs normal. Temp, BP, heart rate, oxygen sats.
May, of course, be nothing to do with the jab at all.
But I do recall 3 weeks being the point where sufficient antibodies are made, so after 2 weeks maybe that process gets going in earnest.
Who knows?

I think the fact this poll had no "I have yet to have even the first dose of the vaccine" option and has been well contributed says a lot about the demographics of TLF

Wizard wrote:I think the fact this poll had no "I have yet to have even the first dose of the vaccine" option and has been well contributed says a lot about the demographics of TLF

The other poll had "have yet to receive anything" as its most-ticked option. This one was posted just a few hours later, so I think we can take that as context.

absolutezero wrote:Two weeks since I had the AZN jab.
I have developed a yuk feeling. Headache. That nasty bodily aching feeling you get when ill. Lethargy. What I can only describe as 'dizziness' but the room isn't spinning.
All vital signs normal. Temp, BP, heart rate, oxygen sats.
May, of course, be nothing to do with the jab at all.

Last year my doctor was trying to persuade me to have a flu jab. I told him that the one time before that I had had a flu jab, I was as sick as a dog afterwards, and so never had one again.

He replied that when people have any kind of jab, they blame that jab for any sickness they feel in the following days and weeks, when often the two things are unrelated.

Soreness at the site seems fairly obvious. But the rest is just guesswork. At six days after my second jab, I have no symptoms or side-effects.