has anyone had the covid vaccination ?

The vaccine initiates an immune response. Part of the body's immune response is to raise your core temperature. When you have an infection, viral or bacterial, and you have a temperature, it's your body raising your temperature to help fight the infection not the infection itself. Your body also puts more energy into fighting the infection than it does normal processes, so you can feel fatigue, aches and pains, and even nausea or diarrhoea. If you don't experience any of these side effects at all after receiving the vaccine you're one of the lucky ones. If you do, it's perfectly normal, it's actually expected to a certain extent. Your body then realises it's not fighting a full on infection so the side effects you do experience tend to be much milder and are over much quicker than if you are actually infected as body reverts back to normal mode. If you experience side effects, don't worry about it, you'll be fine soon. The only time to worry is if you experience any breathing problems. This happens to a tiny fraction of the population and most people who are at risk of this have already experienced it in other situations so are already aware. But if you do experience breathing difficulties seek help immediately, don't wait.

 

Mum had the pfizer one and had no side effects after the first one but she has also had the 2nd, The day after that one she says she felt like a zombie but has been okay since then.

She had the jab on the first day they were done in Barnsley so had the second booked in for the first week of the new year which went ahead as planned.

 

My wife & I had the Astra jab last Tuesday. Sore arm each but nothing else.

 

1) Yes, Astra Zeneca
2) None

 

Nice to come on this site and feel so young.

 

You should be hearing very soon, if not in the next few says give the surgery a ring.

 

Had the AZ last Wednesday. Had a bit of a headache at night. Wife was not great next day, headache, listless and stomach upset but fine fine 12 hours later. Her cousin, a retired consultant, was quite bad for 36 hours with shaking fits. She’s was fine after two days.

 

Some of us get it through our job though ☺️.

Having said that I am thinking more about retirement than anything at the min. Got a few years left yet though.

 

Jab 1st week in Jan, mild headache and feeling tired for a couple of days but soon passed, didn't impair me at all. Wife jab 2 weeks later and very similar affect as mine. understood we can still get Covid but that the effect should be much less due to antibodies being created. think it's the only way out of this sh*tstorm were in.

 

Had 1st AstraZenieca jab today. So far so good and no side effects as yet.

 

Missis had an invitation letter from the NHS a couple of weeks back. I booked her in online at Hanwell for both jabs as you can book the 1st and 2nd at the same time,as that was just about the nearest. She had the AZ jab last Sunday and so far no side effects at all. 2nd one booked for April 24th

 

Wife works in health care and I would say a number of her colleagues were “ill” for about a day after having the Oxford vaccine, starting around 7-12 hours after the vaccine. She was fine.

 

Pretty much my personal experience and also that of a number of my colleagues, I've since heard.

 

With my kids I always gave them paracetamol before bed on the day of the injection and took it myself this year when I had a flu jab.

 

I though it was 12-14 days before the 1st dose of vaccine boosted antibodies to provide significant immunity.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...cine-10-effective-south-african-variant-study

With 147 known cases in the UK we need to get shut of it or the vaccine is going to be pretty useless.

 

Had the Oxford vaccine last Sunday with the Mrs. We are not elderly or vulnerable, but we got offered them as they had over 100 left and they'd have to be binned if they didn't get used.

No side effects for about 8-10 hours. Mrs then had a fever, shivers and headaches. I didn't get any side effects until the next day when I felt like I had a mild flu. Fever, bones were aching etc. Paracetamol sorted me out but Mrs felt awful for a couple of days.

To clear up the debate above, the doctor warned us both we might feel rough over the first 48 hours and then we would be fine. He said it just shows that the vaccine is working.

 

Why? Paracetomol = painkiller, No pain = no need

 

Just what I got advised to do by the drs.

 

Paracetamol is also an antipyretic. Will have been advised prophylactically to prevent a mild fever keeping the little ones up at night.