Anyone else’s arm feel like it’s been run over by a truck?

Surprised me, not feeling the needle going in. I have regular blood tests and that is quite painful and, back in the 1970s when I joined the RAF, they loved pumping all kinds of things into your arms and my memory of those was a lot of discomfort and after effects.

 

Both my jags were Pfizer. 1st no problems 2nd aching muscles which lasted for about 5 hours 24 hours after my 2nd jag was administered.
My young lad also got the Pfizer 1st jag and suffered badly. Sever headache feeling sick and high temperature. He slept for most of the next day after he got it.
Like the actual virus everyone seems to react differently.

 

Hope you're feeling better soon. You're the first person I have seen mention Moderna.

It's great to see so many in our 30s taking up the offer. Twickenham had to turn away people from the queue today as more than 15,000 turned up.

 

I'm embarrassed to say that took me longer than it should have to realise that 'he' is Will not the dog. I was impressed at the dogs ability to send you pictures to be fair but thought Whitney was a weird name forms boy dog

 

Silly question but who have you heard that the moderns second jab is worse from? I'd be surprised if anyone in the UK has had two jabs of it

 

It seems to be common knowledge online. I think it’s used a lot in America.

 

Whitney has been with us just over 6 months now. She’ll be leaving us soon though as she met a potential match the other week but her and the client walk at different speeds so it was a no go. It takes around 2 weeks to match once the process starts but I don’t think she’s been introduced to anyone new since then.

 

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence of all sorts of things when it comes to the vaccine. Some say the first is worse and some say the second. I think there’s probably no real definitive answer and it depends on the person. Some have no reaction to either, some have bad to both, some have bad to one but not the other.

I had the Moderna myself a couple of weeks ago and like you I had a bad arm for a few days. Took essentially 2 days off work (had a few meetings and stuff but typing was extremely uncomfortable) and just rested it. Was back to 99% (it’s still a little sore to the touch. Thankfully I sleep on the other side)

 

I had the AZ jab a few weeks ago and it knocked me out for 4 days I was in ruins. Got my second jab on Friday, praying it won’t be half as bad as we’re hopefully moving house on Monday and could do without feeling ill.

 

I was rough for a week after the AZ one.

 

It seems to be pot luck, I had the AZ and didn't know I'd had it until 12 hours later when flu like symptoms kicked in and I was really rough for 36 hours with an arm so sore I couldn't touch it for a fortnight. Had the second jab last week, felt a bit rough for a couple of hours the same evening and had a mildly sore arm for a few days. The wife had the AZ with no problems other than a mild headache that two paracetamol cured. Our lad had Pfizer no problem apart from a mildly sore arm for a couple of days.

 

On both occasions it felt great. telling the missus "I didn't feel a thing". Instead of her telling me that quite often .

 

Had the moderna a couple of weeks back. Arm was sore to be fair for a couple of days and couldn't sleep on that side, and for a week I was sore under both arms. Wife had it and her arm was a bit tender but not as bad as mine. My friend was same as me, like a pot arm.

 

My arm feels today like what I was expecting it to feel after the vaccine. It feels quite heavy, like a dead arm, hurts quite a lot if I try to lift my arm out away from my side or up, burning up every so often and hand going numb occasionally but nothing terribly serious that won’t go away in a few days. Yesterday was absolutely horrendous though, any time I moved it even half an inch, or took a step with it still by my side, I almost vomited from the pain and was in tears from it by the evening.

 

We now live in a society where, for the vast majority of the population, the side effects of the vaccine for the disease are worse than the symptoms of the disease. Where the vaccine itself doesn't prevent you getting the disease. Where you have to be tested to find out if you've had the deadly disease. I want to repeat that, you have to be tested to see if you've had it because there's a good chance you won't know if you've had it. I wonder how many people who have had malaria don't know they've had it? I used to be able to travel to places that have malaria without anyone batting an eyelid, but now I can't travel to the same places because I might pick up a disease I don't know I've had, that we already have. And soon we're going to be putting this vaccine in our children. And yet we have no idea what the long term implications of these vaccines are. What we do know is that the disease itself doesn't harm healthy children.

This post will cause anger and yet what I have said is irrefutable.

 

That’s probably the case for me but I work with people who are extremely clinically vulnerable who cannot have the vaccine, I work directly with someone who has a clinically vulnerable (adult) child who neither they nor their child can have the vaccine as they are severely allergic to one of the ingredients. There are children in the attached special school who are at risk. It’s not about me, is it? I’ll do whatever I can to keep them safe, side effects be damned.

 

Of course and I'm not denying that. There are people clinically vulnerable to this virus. And I'm not arguing anyone shouldn't have it, it's everyone's right to make their choice. But what I've said isn't factually incorrect and I believe, particularly because our response has lead to a massive scaling back of health treatment for other diseases, that the discussion we should be having isn't happening.