How's our Board Herd Immunity coming?

😂🤣😂

Wait until the 2nd shot....I walked around for 24 hours stating “look at me, no side effects, strong like Bull” and then bam it hit like a freight train and I groaned, got out of my chair and stated “me and the dog are going to bed, I feel like shit”.

(2 Advil and a 4 hour nap I was back to my sarcastic self, but damn)

That big bore needle, if done right, goes into a vein just beneath the skin's surface. So it only has to penetrate a little skin and the vascular wall. Hence intravenous. The vax is an intramuscular shot, so it penetrates deep into your shoulder muscle - and pumps a bunch of fluid in there.

My wife and I got our second moderna shot yesterday. Today I feel like I got hit by a truck. Soreness all over and brain fog. My wife has a fever and chills/sweats in addition to the full body soreness.

I'm thinking it might have been smart to space our shots out instead of getting them on the same day, so one of us would be healthy enough to take care of the other.

Dr. Hondo advice is to drink plenty of water, take an Advil or Tylenol, and nap. 

Or, get shitfaced drunk and let the hangover be the problem.

Hope you both feel better **soon**

I'm in irresponsibly terrible health and all I got was a chill and a runny nose. Goes to show you don't ever know...

In the category of probably tmi, I'm doing a Keystone Cops routine before I get my vaccine. Had the vaccine appt for last Thursday, just getting over 3 weeks off my foot after minor operation. I would have hunted for an unscheduled end-of-day shot locally if I had not been off my feet. Was almost entirely quarantined for 4 weeks, but somehow came down with combo horrible urgent-care grade back/stomach/head aches early last week (took my chances and stayed home though), but worst factor was had a 2 day low grade fever with all that. All guidance said to cancel the vaccine appt based on the fever. Recovered late in the week, then wondered if I should get a covid test just in case, so going for that today, just in case, and to be 100% sure of what I do next. Have a new vaccine appt for this coming Thursday now, but I'm just waiting for what delay comes next.

If it ends up positive you will likely defer your first shot for a while, because after a positive you don't need it right away.  But that was the thinking when vaccines and facilities were scarce--simply need based allocation.

Often if a person is positive, that's like the first shot and the actual first shot is like the second, which is a kind of a booster. That also means you may have the side effects with #1 that you otherwise would with #2.

Of course all hoping that a positive has no ill effects, which is so often the case.

My daughter tested positive between the shots, had a mild case (couple of days) then the second shot made her feel bad for a day. She's a healthy 33 year old. YMMV

I'm lucky that though my wife & I got our 1st shots a day a apart - but because we scheduled separately at different CVS', she got Pfizer (3 wks in between), I got Moderna (4) so we'll have that space between to help us get through round 2. 

Good Luck!

I felt pretty lousy after shot #2, but not so bad that I wasn't able to take care of myself. But if it hadn't been a Sunday, I totally would have taken the day off work. One thing that is certain is that it affects everyone differently. Worf felt way better than I did. Same vaccine, same day, same time. Different bodies. Different reactions.

I was worried because other than a very slight soreness in my arm, I had zero other effects. Nada.  Did I get the right stuff?  If this was a study I would be sure I got the placebo...