Got my first shot, the Moderna vaccine, about 45 minutes ago. 2:35 PM US EDT, 1835 UTC. March 16 2021.
I know it's supposed to take weeks for immunity to build up, but I swear I can already feel the antibodies surging through me!
Yes, there they come ... up through my knees!
THERE THEY ARE ... UP IN MY GROIN!
Wait until you get your 2nd shot - you will feel even better and then two weeks later it will be like you have been released from jail.
share> two weeks [after the second shot] it will be like you have been released from jail.
April 27th. I've got it marked on the calendar.
Yes, like being out of jail. In the past year I haven't been to the barber, I've been giving myself haircuts. I haven't been to the movies. I haven't been in a restaurant. I haven't been inside anyone else's home. I haven't had any visitors in my home. I haven't been outside this town, except for long drives to break the monotony in which I don't stop anywhere. I haven't been to any baseball games. I haven't been on any overnight trips, I've been in no hotel rooms. I've only been in the grocery during off hours, when crowds are thin. To the fullest extent possible I have avoided touching any other human being, or any thing another person has recently touched. For example, when I retrieve mail from the mailbox I assume the carrier has contaminated it and wash up after handling it.
I said to myself when this started, this virus could kill me. I'm older, and not in the best of health. I don't want to die. Therefore, I will not catch the virus. I will do whatever is necessary to not catch it. And I will do those things for as long as necessary. Period.
I did it. When some others said, to hell with it, I stood firm. I'm quite proud of that. And it has worked. During the past year I've never had a cold, not even a sniffle. I've had some difficult experiences in my life, but finding I can endure something strengthens me. One man in this town did not. He stopped wearing a mask and caught COVID just before his father's funeral. He breathed all over several people as they were hugging and consoling him. He infected four people. Luckily, they all recovered.
Fortunately I'm pretty comfortable with my own company, so it hasn't been as difficult as for some others. But it will be a relief when that day comes.
I'm getting an appointment for the shot. And the Pharmacy is right across the street so that's easy. The shot is for people 55 and over.
share> I'm getting an appointment for the shot.
Do it now, online if you can. I registered for it several weeks ago, at my county health department's web site. I'm in group 1C, which just opened up yesterday here in Kentucky. I got the call from the health department six days ago telling me I could have an appointment today, on the second day I was eligible. I don't want to think about how long a wait a person making an appointment today might have.
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shareThumbs up indeed. I'm an old fart, I'll take my cheap thrills however I can find them. Erectile dysfunction be damned!
shareWait! What? Erectile dysfunction?
shareNot any more!
I also found, when I woke up this morning, that the parts of my scalp which are bald ... were bald ... have a thick covering of stubble, new hair growing in ... and not gray hair, but brown!
Oh, this is gonna be good! Watch out, world!
Wait! What? There's hair now?
shareYep. I heard there might be weird side effects to the vaccine, but I had never imagined things like this might happen. Hey, bring 'em on!
It might be a mixed blessing, though. I'm semi-retired and go into the office once or twice a week, mostly to consult with and advise our younger staff. In our labs we commonly use kryptonite. I've never had a problem with it before, but this morning when I got near it I suddenly felt terribly weak. I wonder if that means anything?
Has your hair grown into a kiss curl?
shareHasn't been enough time for that yet, it's growing out at a normal rate. We'll just have to wait and see.
This is all getting quite weird.
The x-ray vision might come in handy.
sharejust wait until the penis elongation and widening starts. you'll be beating off the girls with your stick.
shareSecond shot! 2:16 PM US EDT, 1816 UTC, April 13 2021. YIPPEE!
shareCongratulations! ๐ฅ๐๐คธโโ๏ธ๐ฅ It's a relief, isn't it?
I and my adult children have now all had their second doses. ๐คธโโ๏ธ
CONGRATULATIONS to you too GlenEllyn !!!
Did you or your kids have any SIDE EFFECTS with your 2nd DOSE ???
I've also had the Pfizer injection and the folks working at the PHARMACY (including the PHARMACIST) said that they'd had some fever and/or chills.
My children suffered no side effects after the 2nd dose. I'm not sure which vaccine they got, but I got the Pfizer. When I woke up the morning after my 2nd dose, I felt like I'd been hit by a bus. I hurt all over, but especially my joints. I had a fever of 101, fatigue, headache, and chills. Fortunately, no nausea or vomiting. The side effects lasted only a day, except for the chills which hung on for a couple more days.
shareThanks for the explanation!!! Needless to say I'm not looking forward to going through what you did, but it will also be better than actually having the VIRUS and having to deal with the same things (or even worse things) for SEVERAL MORE DAYS.
How many HOURS did the fever and chills last for??? The Pharmacist said his lasted for about 10 hours.
What time did you get your 2nd dose? And what time did you wake up after getting it???
I'm asking because I get mine about 9am and then will need to go to work at about midnight that night and don't want to feel so bad that I can't go do my job.
Wild guess, they lasted 8-10 hours, except for the chills that hung on for another two days. Chills were no big deal. It was the body/joint aches that made it hard to function. If I'd been working, I would have had to call in sick for the day.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you have no noticeable side effects. ๐ค
Well done!
share> It's a relief, isn't it?
Definitely!
They say the WORSE SIDE EFFECTS come with the 2nd dose.
Have you experienced any of them yet ???
Fever, chills, fatigue, loss of smell or taste???
Got my first Pfizer injection about a week ago at the PHARMACY I use who also said that anyone 16 and older can get one now, and that you also don't need an appointment anymore (just need to show up sometime between 9am and 6 pm).
Nice to know one doesn't need an appointment now. We're getting there...
shareYes we are, but the SET BACK for the J&J vaccine (stopping injections due to the blood clot issue) will also SLOW things down for us getting there where we need to be (as the MUTANT forms of the VIRUS also keep SPREADING around like in MICHIGAN where it's now the DOMINANT STRAIN (and in FL).
So it also looks like COVID might still WIN this RACE !!!
I was also hoping to get the ONE SHOT and DONE injection, but all they had to offer was the PFIZER 2 SHOT OPTION.
Is it just women getting blood clots? I haven't heard about any men.
Good job getting vaccinated!
Yes it's just females age 18 to 48 that seem to have the clotting problem.
GREAT NEWS that you've had no side effects with the 2nd DOSE Bull !!!
My friends father also didn't have any issues with his 2nd injection either but also don't know which kind he was given.
Wonder if males in general can handle it better than females for some reason???
Then it might possibly have something to do with women taking birth control pills which can also cause blood clots - perhaps the combination is causing the problem?
shareThey say CLOTS can happen to 4 or 5 people per million even without the vaccine, so 1 per million is even lower than usual, but there's also still a CORRELATION between WHEN they got the injection and the time frame that it took for the clots to form.
And it also seems to correspond to what happens with the AZ injections.
PLUS both J&J and the AZ vaccines are produced differently than the other 2 (which use RNA), whereas the AZ and J&J brands are suppose contain and use some kind of a dead cold virus (like a FLU shot does).
They also say that it might be HORMONAL, meaning even if women aren't taking BC pills it could happen to them. And that would also make sense due to the way menopausal women don't have the same kind of issues.
And it also means females under the age of 18 who usually start having periods around age 12 might be at risk as well. But since they're not vaccinating anyone under age 16 yet, that would also explain why it's not been an issue for younger teenagers yet.
And just with the J&J and AZ shots. No clots reported with the mRNA vaccines.
shareI had no side effects at all with the first shot. I had also heard that side effects are sometimes worse with the second shot, and the nurses confirmed that yesterday. Now, it's the morning after my second shot. So far, no side effects. I do want to crawl back in bed and sleep some more but I feel that way every morning, that's just normal.
shareUpdate on the side effects. I got the shot Tuesday. I wrote that first reply, "so far no side effects," Wednesday morning. A few times later that day I felt a little queasy. Not like I was in imminent danger of throwing up, but about 10% of the way to being there. I thought it might mess with my appetite, but when I ate I had no problems and stuffed myself like usual Now it's Thursday afternoon and I've felt fine for all of today. So the side effects were very mild and I think I'm past them.
shareGlad to hear you didn't deal with any other SIDE EFFECTS. Do you happen to have any relatives from the NETHERLANDS??? Because the other man (a former college professor who is also father of my friend) has European heritage in his DNA.
It would also be interesting to see if the SIDE EFFECTS we endure have anything to do with our genetic make up or our DNA.
Today on the news they also said over 5,000 people who've been VACCINATED have gotten the COVID VIRUS, but that number is also in line with how the vaccine is only 95% effective.
The other problem is how they also say that if you have SIDE EFFECTS, then that also lets you know that the VACCINE is WORKING properly. So would that also indicate those who have the worse SIDE EFFECTS might also be the most protected??? Meaning those who have NO or MILD side effects need to be more careful of who they come into contact with???
I got intrigued with my genealogy about twenty years ago and did some digging. As far as I can tell, my ancestry is 75% British, 25% Irish. My father's ancestry seems to be primarily Welsh, but also some English. My mother's father is in a long, well researched line that has roots in Kent, eastern England. My maternal grandmother is something of a mystery -- I've been able to trace back my other three grandparents quite far, but her folks seem to have materialized on US soil out of thin air. But there's strong circumstantial evidence that her folks were Irish who came here during the mid-19th century "potato famine."
AFAIK, no Scandinavian heritage. I am related to Thomas Jefferson and to Robert Treat Paine. One of them wrote the Declaration of Independence, and they both signed it. The actor Treat Williams is related to Paine, so I'm related to him too. I'm also related to Meriwether Lewis, who was Jefferson's secretary while he was POTUS, until he departed to become half of Lewis and Clark. None of which makes me a better person -- or more suicidal (how Lewis met his end), it's just interesting trivia.
I agree that the vaccine should not be viewed as absolute protection against the virus. I regard it as like being in an area prone to heavy gunfire and being handed a Kevlar vest. Thanks for the protection but I'll still duck and cover to keep out of bullets' paths. Even after April 27, my "fully immune" date, I'll still use masks, alcohol wipes, et cetera.
That's interesting what you were able to find out about your heritage. I've also found a couple of other links, one that suggest hormones play a huge role in the kind of side effects that we're likely to have (or not have).
Here's the link to the topic:
https://moviechat.org/general/General-Discussion/6078e3e058b51c7bdf5fabf6/So-far-5800-fully-vaccinated-people-have-caught-Covid-anyway-in-US-CDC-says
Here's the link to an ARTICLE that explains the reasons why FEMALES have worse SIDE EFFECTS than MALES:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/health/vaccine-side-effects-women-men.html
Women Report Worse Side Effects After a Covid Vaccine
Six of the women had body aches, chills and fatigue. The one woman who didnโt have flu symptoms was up much of the night vomiting.
The eight men gave drastically different reports. One had mild arm pain, a headache and body aches. Two described mild fatigue and a bit of achiness. One got a headache. And four had no symptoms at all.