Mike4 wrote:bee12345 wrote:I had the AZ vaccine at 3:40pm, and felt fine for the rest of the afternoon and evening. Went to bed at 9:30 which is earlier than usual for me because of needing to have an early start the following morning. Took a couple of paracetamol before going to bed because I'd heard it would be a good idea.
I had no sleep apart from 45 minutes at 4:45. I had set my alarm for 5:45 to get ready to go out to work. When I realised I wasn't going to get a decent amount of sleep, I sent an email to colleagues at 3am to say that I was cancelling the alarm and wouldn't be at work that day.
Felt really nauseous all night. My husband said I was burning up, but I felt soooo cold. My hands and feet were like blocks of ice. Stabbing pains in random places all over my body. Constant abdominal pain. Some pain in my lower back.
It was horrid, and I spent the rest of that day in bed. The following night wasn't great, but it was much better than the first night.
Having said all of that - i am glad I had the vaccine, and although it sounds like I will get the same or worse side effects when I get the second dose, I'll still have that second dose.
I had similar. I was OxAZed at 2.30pm on Friday 31st Jan and felt fine until early evening when I began to feel chilled, cold and not too well. Turned the heating up to 24c, lit the log fire and struggled to feel warm all evening. Realised I felt really ill in the most general of terms with no specific symptoms beyond being so cold and went to bed early. Could not sleep and stayed awake all night. Finally gave in and took paracetamol at about 6am Saturday morning and immediately felt better and fell asleep. Stayed in bed for the rest of the weekend as exhausted, sleeping for about 4 hours, awake for 2 all through until about 6pm Sunday night when it all turned off like a switch and suddenly I felt fine again, and back to normal.
Oh, except for a mild but persistent headache on the right side of my head which carried on for about two weeks, then vanished.
I've read some suggestions that a strong reaction to the first dose of AZ means the body recognises it from a previous infection and has already learned how to fight it off, which is what the symptoms mean is happening. Of all the people I've spoken to about their reaction to a first dose of AZ, most say none whatsoever but perhaps 1 in 6 recounts an experience similar to you and me.
I too will deffly have the second dose if it gets offered, but I have a feeling it never will be offered, somehow.
Similar to the two of you I was AZ-ed at 14:10, felt fine all day, but had a rotten night with next to no sleep. My only symptoms were a headache where frankly I've had worse from a hangover, and chills early on that then turned to sweats by maybe 4:00am or 5:00am. The following morning I was fine.
On the second dose thing, particularly bee12345 expecting the second dose to be worse, I wouldn't be so sure.
The Zoe Covid-19 symptom tracking project has also been tracking vaccination side effects for a while and did its latest webinar this last Wednesday. The main points I took from the discussion of side effects was ...
1 - Side effects overall slightly lower for Pfizer vs AZ but not massively so.
2 - Explicitly stated by one of the participants rather than shown on any of the graphs but apparently for the AZ vaccine the first dose tends to produce more side effects with fewer people seeing side effects on the second dose whereas for the Pfizer vaccine it tends to be the other way round, fewer side effects seen after the first dose with the second dose tending to provoke more.
Here is the full webinar. It is long I am afraid and I don't have a time stamp for that comment on relative first/second dose side effect characteristics. I can't even remember which contributor said it so can't advise people to scrub through to dip in only when a certain person is speaking to try and catch their contribution but here is the link for anyone with an hour to spare...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCDpIK ... hannel=ZOE- Julian