I hear differing accounts of reactions to the vaccines, particularly the AstraZenica. They vary from 'nothing apart from a sore arm' to 'laid out feeling rough for days.' I'll be interested to hear Shipmates' experiences.
I had A-Z for Jab The First last Friday - no ill-effects, apart from a very, very slight tenderness at The Jab Spot (I didn't even feel the needle go in, but I've always been fortunate with Jabs).
I did feel rather rough around Saturday midday - just washed-out and weary - but the feeling passed within a couple of hours. No fever or chills.
Like Tree Bee, I had nothing worse than a slightly achy arm after the first jab (Pfizer), although I've been rather more sleepy than usual since (I almost slept through the alarm this morning, a week later).
MuminElmet (after the AZ jab) had the 48-hr bleurgh: sleepy, a bit achy. As side-effects are supposed to hit younger people harder, I told her it was her youthful constitution. Not sure she believed me.
I think I listed my side-effects here at the time, but these are they:
!0-12 hrs after the vaccination I felt really washed out and had an early night. Slept badly, with, I presume, a fever and at one point chattering teeth. The following day felt really nauseous (but was not sick), couldn't face food, and only able to sip the occasional glass of water. Got up in the afternoon, feeling less exhausted, but had a headache. All back to normal after 24hrs.
Had a hard lump and tenderness at the injection site which lasted about three weeks - which is the same as I get after the flu jab.
Mr S and I both had the AZ - sore arm and weariness the next day, Mr S had a headache but I didn't. That's your lot. Both ~70 but in good health otherwise, if that counts.
I had a sore arm with the Pfizer one, my husband didn't even have that. Quite a few people that I know that the AstraZenica had flu-like symptoms a few hours later. The severity varied from 'I was fine after a paracetamol' to being laid up in bed for three days. The latter was my sister-in-law who is in her fifties and does have various other health problems.
The nurse said to drink plenty of water, so I have been doing.
I might have fared better if I had done that, but couldn't face it once the nausea started. I will make sure I drink plenty after the second vaccine, and try to head the effects off at the pass.
I keep reading this as the Arizona vaccine. We have both kinds here: Pfizer AND Moderna. (Remember the line from the Blues Brothers movie where Jake asks the bar owner what kind of music they play there?)
I’ve now had my AstraZeneca vaccine. I went out on my bike at twelve minutes to two, arrived at the GP practice four minutes later, and was back home for five past two (downhill coming home).
Six o'clock Sunday morning and the changes are all go.
Where's that spinning smiley when you really need it?
What I find really interesting is how many close contacts some people have, and how far and wide they travel around the country. I have been scanning the covid tracer app since last August when my nephew put it on my tablet and that is the last time I left Christchurch, whereas many of the people had made multiple trips for holidays, family gatherings, etc (which are all allowable, under levels 1 and 2 so they're not breaking any rules).
I have decided I live a very boring life. If I caught covid (from a breach in a managed isolation facility as it hasn't been in found the community in the South Island for at least 8 months) the people in most danger of contracting it from me would be supermarket shoppers, library users and possibly other bus users, though since the buses started running every 10 minutes and I only travel off peak, when social distancing is easy, this wouldn't be very likely.
An encouraging story in a really awful week. A friend's sister came out of ICU after 65 days of battling Covid and only survived because of the groundbreaking work of Emmanuel Taban.
'When 17-year-old Emmanuel Taban arrived in Johannesburg from war-torn South Sudan with nothing, he had only five years of education behind him. Today this former Medunsa student is a highly qualified pulmonologist, with a European Diploma in adult respiratory medicine. During 2020, he was at the forefront of the treatment of Covid-19 patients in ICU. Taban was the first pulmonologist in the world to perform a therapeutic bronchoscopy on a hypoxemic Covid-19 patient, discovering that some deaths from Covid-19 pneumonia are due to fibrinous mucus plugs.'
Has anyone else experienced this? Since turning fifty I had been developing age spots on the back of my hands. In the past year they have faded and are now hardly noticeable. I'm assuming that all the hand sanitiser / hand gel has done this. Anyone else?
Obviously I don't have before / after photos because I had no reason to photograph the backs of my hands a year ago.
I don't think it's that because I have a garden; I think I've had as much sun as I would normally, it's just that all my sun exposure has been near my house.
Well the intertube thinks sun, frequent hand washing and hand sanitiser *causes* age spots.
I have observed my hands have got softer with hand gel. So I assume the glycerine moisturises, perhaps massaging it in breaks up the clumps of pigment ?
From the latest lists of who gets vaccinated when in NZ I think I will receive my first jab in May. Personally I would rather a higher priority was given to the people in South Auckland, which is has had far more community transmission that anywhere in the country, but I guess the decision makers know better than I do.
It will be the Pfizer vaccine as that has been the choice made.
A side effect of lockdown - which must be pretty widespread - is how out of condition you get. Yesterday I walked to bus stop - about 10 minutes - did a series of focussed errands to a couple of banks and supermarkets in a shopping centre. Home by bus with two bags of stuff, five minute walk to home. And I was exhausted. My feet felt like I'd been walking on hot cinders.
I have yet a new number to call to register for vaccine. This will be my fourth sign up with still no call to get the shot. The notice also said that at this time there is no vaccine available. Strange as the next county over has plenty, but you must show your ID with address to no county hopping. So I will continue to shelter in place with Mr Image. Sigh
Hope shines, just learned that they are opening a vaccine site in our county. It is booked full for the first few days with farmworkers over 65. The type of vaccine you will get is going to change from day to day and could be the one-shot, or two shot kind. I do not care just happy the flood gates seem to be opening.
Really pleased to hear that @Graven Image . I hope you get your jab soon. Mr Nen and I have our first ones tomorrow afternoon - can't wait! We're starting to hear of people younger than us who have booked online and had it already so we feel we're a bit behind the curve now. I said to him at lunchtime that my one aim tomorrow is for us to finish the day vaccinated. If that happens the day's been a success.
In other news I walked up to our local town centre in the sunshine this morning. There were lots of people about, which was nice to see, but I had very mixed feelings about it as it made going into shops feel very unsafe. I'm hoping once I've had the vaccine - by which time more people will have as well - and done the 3 week wait for it to reach efficacy I'll feel more confident being out and about.
In my rural neck of the woods Wednesday is vaccination day. And this coming Wednesday I have been summoned for mine. “If you drive you will have to sit for 15 minutes” said the receptionist who called me. “What about if I cycle?” I asked. This flummoxed her, so I said I would consult the medics doing the deed.
The severe adverse incidents were in relation to the Pfizer vaccination not the AstraZeneca one, so the wait for 15 minutes is standard for all Pfizer injections. It seems that many sites are suggesting AZ recipients also wait if driving (and sometimes as standard).
The severe adverse incidents were in relation to the Pfizer vaccination not the AstraZeneca one, so the wait for 15 minutes is standard for all Pfizer injections. It seems that many sites are suggesting AZ recipients also wait if driving (and sometimes as standard).
Yes, I was advised to wait 15 minutes after my AZ jab. I assumed that was in case of a reaction, and that it was standard procedure with all the vaccines.
The severe adverse incidents were in relation to the Pfizer vaccination not the AstraZeneca one, so the wait for 15 minutes is standard for all Pfizer injections. It seems that many sites are suggesting AZ recipients also wait if driving (and sometimes as standard).
Yes, I was advised to wait 15 minutes after my AZ jab. I assumed that was in case of a reaction, and that it was standard procedure with all the vaccines.
Yes, it was standard at the pharmacy where I had the AZ, regardless of mode of travel. (I travelled there by train).
No tea or biscuits indeed, but I was offered a can of water upon leaving the vaccination centre.
Sadly I was totally overwhelmed at being in the company of so very many people, but I would have liked to have commented that I didn’t even know that one could have Water in Cans.
During hurricane recoveries in the US, beer and soda companies would switch to canning water to get communities over the hump of needing clean water. Why at a vaccine center I don't know.
Had my second vaccine (Pfizer) on Wednesday with no ill effects whatsoever except a sore arm. However my daughter currently has flu-like symptoms from her first vaccine (Oxford, I think?) which she had yesterday.
Mr Nen and I are not long back from having our first AZ vaccines and were told to wait for 15 minutes before driving away. We were able to wait in the car. There were loads of stewards around so we could have flagged up to them if one of us had had a problem.
Several people have told us it's important to keep hydrated afterwards so we're currently enjoying a nice cup of tea. The glasses of water will appear shortly too.
Glad it went well @Nenya! Hope neither of you suffers any ill-effects.
I wasn't told about keeping hydrated (and I tend to forget about drinking enough fluids anyway, as a matter of course), so I wonder if that's why I came over All Peculiar about 24 hours after The Jab?
I only got the "keep hydrated" warning in a post from someone on here. Too late for my first dose, but following the reaction to that I will definitely bear it in mind when it comes to the second.
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I had A-Z for Jab The First last Friday - no ill-effects, apart from a very, very slight tenderness at The Jab Spot (I didn't even feel the needle go in, but I've always been fortunate with Jabs).
I did feel rather rough around Saturday midday - just washed-out and weary - but the feeling passed within a couple of hours. No fever or chills.
!0-12 hrs after the vaccination I felt really washed out and had an early night. Slept badly, with, I presume, a fever and at one point chattering teeth. The following day felt really nauseous (but was not sick), couldn't face food, and only able to sip the occasional glass of water. Got up in the afternoon, feeling less exhausted, but had a headache. All back to normal after 24hrs.
Had a hard lump and tenderness at the injection site which lasted about three weeks - which is the same as I get after the flu jab.
Astra Zeneca
I have had no side effects so far. Mr Boogs has been shivery and headachy. The nurse said to drink plenty of water, so I have been doing.
I keep reading this as the Arizona vaccine. We have both kinds here: Pfizer AND Moderna. (Remember the line from the Blues Brothers movie where Jake asks the bar owner what kind of music they play there?)
Fingers crossed!
Where's that spinning smiley when you really need it?
What I find really interesting is how many close contacts some people have, and how far and wide they travel around the country. I have been scanning the covid tracer app since last August when my nephew put it on my tablet and that is the last time I left Christchurch, whereas many of the people had made multiple trips for holidays, family gatherings, etc (which are all allowable, under levels 1 and 2 so they're not breaking any rules).
I have decided I live a very boring life. If I caught covid (from a breach in a managed isolation facility as it hasn't been in found the community in the South Island for at least 8 months) the people in most danger of contracting it from me would be supermarket shoppers, library users and possibly other bus users, though since the buses started running every 10 minutes and I only travel off peak, when social distancing is easy, this wouldn't be very likely.
'When 17-year-old Emmanuel Taban arrived in Johannesburg from war-torn South Sudan with nothing, he had only five years of education behind him. Today this former Medunsa student is a highly qualified pulmonologist, with a European Diploma in adult respiratory medicine. During 2020, he was at the forefront of the treatment of Covid-19 patients in ICU. Taban was the first pulmonologist in the world to perform a therapeutic bronchoscopy on a hypoxemic Covid-19 patient, discovering that some deaths from Covid-19 pneumonia are due to fibrinous mucus plugs.'
https://readinglist.click/sub/watch-emmanuel-taban-introducing-his-new-book-the-boy-who-never-gave-up-a-refugees-epic-journey-to-triumph/
Obviously I don't have before / after photos because I had no reason to photograph the backs of my hands a year ago.
I have observed my hands have got softer with hand gel. So I assume the glycerine moisturises, perhaps massaging it in breaks up the clumps of pigment ?
My mother was the same and paternal aunt
It will be the Pfizer vaccine as that has been the choice made.
In other news I walked up to our local town centre in the sunshine this morning. There were lots of people about, which was nice to see, but I had very mixed feelings about it as it made going into shops feel very unsafe. I'm hoping once I've had the vaccine - by which time more people will have as well - and done the 3 week wait for it to reach efficacy I'll feel more confident being out and about.
AIUI there have been a few cases of anaphylaxis almost immediately after the Jab, so the slight delay is sensible.
Yes, I was advised to wait 15 minutes after my AZ jab. I assumed that was in case of a reaction, and that it was standard procedure with all the vaccines.
For instance, I didn’t have to wait around after my annual flu jab.
Yes, it was standard at the pharmacy where I had the AZ, regardless of mode of travel. (I travelled there by train).
Sadly I was totally overwhelmed at being in the company of so very many people, but I would have liked to have commented that I didn’t even know that one could have Water in Cans.
I m out of practice at casual comments
Several people have told us it's important to keep hydrated afterwards so we're currently enjoying a nice cup of tea.
I wasn't told about keeping hydrated (and I tend to forget about drinking enough fluids anyway, as a matter of course), so I wonder if that's why I came over All Peculiar about 24 hours after The Jab?