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| Covid Booster Reports | |
| By: Steve Date: September 11, 2024, 6:30 pm | |
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| I thought that there should be a thread for people to share | |
| their experiences with receiving Covid booster vaccines. Do you | |
| have strong reactions? Weak? Do you receive Pfizer, Moderna, | |
| Novavax or (especially if you are not from the U.S.) another | |
| brand? | |
| Granted, this topic was not created to 'shame' others in any way | |
| in order to receive the booster sooner than convenient. Everyone | |
| has their own schedule and reasons for why and when they receive | |
| their booster. | |
| Instead, it is a topic to celebrate the fact that you have | |
| received a booster and that you do care about protecting | |
| yourself and others from the current strains of Covid-19 that is | |
| currently circulating throughout the population. | |
| I will start the topic off by saying that I have received the | |
| latest Covid-19 booster (Moderna). I am about three hours | |
| removed from receiving it. I tend to have strong reactions to | |
| these boosters; Therefore, I am a bit apprehensive about what | |
| the effects may be. As of right now, all that I have is a bit of | |
| soreness at the area of injection. My reactions tend to occur | |
| about 12 hours after injection so it should be interesting how I | |
| fare this time around. | |
| While I would normally have waited for a Friday so that I could | |
| take Saturday as a recovery day, the opportunity was there to | |
| receive one today and so I did. There was no line; My family was | |
| the only one waiting for the booster. | |
| So, please, post here when you receive your booster and share | |
| your experiences about it. | |
| #Post#: 2232-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Covid Booster Reports | |
| By: Data Report Date: September 11, 2024, 7:55 pm | |
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| Just shared this thread on 3 social media platforms. I intend to | |
| get my Novavax booster when it is available at the place I got | |
| mine last time. I filled out an inquiry form for it today, so I | |
| am notified when it is in. | |
| #Post#: 2234-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Covid Booster Reports | |
| By: Steve Date: September 12, 2024, 9:19 am | |
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| My update: | |
| I am currently at home recovering from my Covid booster shot. | |
| To reiterate the timeline (all times local), I got my shot at | |
| around 4:30 PM yesterday (2024-09-11) and prior experience led | |
| me to know that I have both strong reactions and that those | |
| reactions hit about 12 hours after receiving the vaccine. | |
| I was fairly normal through 4-430 AM. There was an increase of | |
| soreness at the injection site but nothing that would have | |
| caused me to not go to work. I always get shots on my | |
| non-dominant arm in order to have more options as to how to | |
| function normally. There was a bit of body ache and | |
| light-headedness but it didn't seem to hamper my morning routine | |
| too much. | |
| By the time I was traveling to work, my thought was always in | |
| having an early day and leaving work early regardless of the | |
| outcome - Go in, perform all of the critical assignments and, if | |
| I wasn't improving, leave. I'm not a CEO; The organization can | |
| survive without me for one day. | |
| After performing initial tasks at work, I was not improving and, | |
| I felt, I was slowly getting worse. I knew about my prior | |
| history with Covid shots / boosters and I had to make a judgment | |
| call as to whether I could drive home safely. After an hour at | |
| work, I left shortly before 6 AM. At that time, I didn't feel | |
| significantly worse but I still wasn't feeling better. Also, | |
| while performing work assignments, brain fog had caused me to | |
| make errors that I would not have normally made. Also, I was | |
| sucking down a lot more water than usual for a typical day. | |
| I drove home and immediately got into PJs. By 6:30 AM, my | |
| condition had degraded to the point where, had I been driving, | |
| my ability to drive would have been significant degraded to the | |
| point of potentially harming myself and/or others. | |
| By 7 AM I was lying in bed or under the covers. My body | |
| temperature felt very high regardless of how much water I drank. | |
| Until 9:30 AM, I was incapacitated to the point where walking, | |
| talking and concentrating on even basic stimuli (such as | |
| watching TV) was not conducive to recovery. Since 9:30 AM I have | |
| slowly felt better to the point where I am currently writing | |
| this post. | |
| At this current time, I am improving but still feel achy. My | |
| biggest improvement is comprehension and the ability to perform | |
| basic-to-moderate tasks (such as writing this post). I still | |
| feel as though I have an elevated temperature. | |
| Good luck to the rest of you out there. | |
| #Post#: 2237-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Covid Booster Reports | |
| By: Steve Date: September 13, 2024, 2:13 pm | |
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| A further update: | |
| At this point, I feel that the effects of the Covid booster are | |
| over. Yesterday was mostly dominated with sluggishness, brain | |
| fog and tiredness. I tried eating a very late dinner yesterday | |
| of chicken noodle soup and that took a lot of time to finish. | |
| However, I had a mostly normal breakfast and (for all intents | |
| and purposes) a normal lunch. | |
| This morning, there was some sluggishness and weakness (likely | |
| because of the lack of appetite from yesterday). I do not feel | |
| as though I still have that sluggishness now. If I had to make | |
| an estimation, I would say that at noontime, today, I was | |
| completely capable of going to work and performing all of my | |
| work-related tasks with near-normal efficiency. | |
| To condense the timeline of events (times are approximate): | |
| ** 4:30 PM (Wednesday) Received booster. | |
| ** 4:00 AM (Thursday) Slight brain fog, Slight-to-moderate | |
| sluggishness | |
| ** 6:00 AM (Thursday) Rapidly increasing brain fog, sluggishness | |
| & tiredness. | |
| ** 6:30 - 9:30 AM (Thursday) Severe brain fog, sluggishness & | |
| tiredness. Functionally bedridden. | |
| ** 9:30 AM - 7:00 PM (Thursday) Slow improvements in recovery | |
| with relapses. Intermittently bedridden, capable of shuffling | |
| around but no capacity to run, jog or even quickly walk. | |
| ** 2:00 AM (Friday) Brain fog has realistically lifted | |
| ** 4:00 AM (Friday) Still some sluggishness and weakness; Still | |
| did not trust myself to operate heavy machinery (such as an | |
| automobile) but I suppose I could have in an emergency. | |
| ** 11:00 AM (Friday) The first time I considered myself | |
| "functionally near normal" to the point where I could operate | |
| heavy machinery without any concern or perform job-related tasks | |
| with no significant loss in efficiency. | |
| I don't write these experiences to discourage anyone from | |
| getting the Covid-19 booster. Get the Covid-19 booster. I write | |
| this so that others may base their own experiences off of this | |
| one and to compare notes. I consider my reactions to the | |
| Covid-19 shots to be strong. Yours may, and will likely, be | |
| different. | |
| Good luck to the rest of you out there. | |
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