COVID Vaccine Experience

UPDATE POSTED BELOW

Me:
- 27 years old
- Bartonella
- Bebesia
- No Lyme
- Currently on disulfiram & clarithromyacin
- Relatively insensitive to medication/supplements (I certainly herx, but it is mild compared to many others according to my doctor; I tolerate things pretty well.)

Dose 1 - Moderna
Day 1
- Administered around 10am
- Felt muscle soreness at injection site within 10 minutes
- Had pretty intense brain fog/zoning out within a couple hours after injection, cleared up within a couple hours too
- Within those same hours I felt a bit like I was out of breath easily and taking shallow breaths, but nothing major
- Arm pain got worse into the evening, was radiating down my arm and into my shoulder blade; didn't want to move my arm or be touched
- Felt pretty okay other than that, was a bit tired
- Took 2 Benadryl to reduce symptoms, namely the arm pain (my doc said to take it before the shot but I forgot...whoops!)
- Promptly got very tired and went to bed early; slept through the night just fine

Day 2
- Woke up groggy as usual, no change from normal
- Had a low-grade headache in the morning that went away with some ibuprofen
- Arm soreness still there but not as intense; slight swelling at injection site
- Got an eye floater (which hasn't happened in awhile)
- Felt pretty quickly overstimulated by noise and light (asked people to talk quietly, put blinds down); this is also common for me but hadn't happened in a few days

Day 3
- Still easily overstimulated by noise, had to go in the other room when we had a small family gathering (safe, of course)
- Irritable, urge to cry
- The 2 above symptoms went away by the evening time

By Day 4, I feel totally normal. Overall, I'd say I fared pretty well. Some friends experienced chills, slight fever, major fatigue, etc. And I didn't have any of that (except for the fatigue on the day of, but that may have been Benadryl induced). The worst symptom was really just the arm soreness, which was really only bad on the day of the injection. Everything else was within my normal scope of symptoms anyway, so I can't be sure what was brought up by the vaccine or if it was just my normal bout of symptoms.

Thought I'd share in case anyone was curious how it goes! I'll post an update in a few weeks when I get the second dose. Hope this helps someone!

Post Edited (mitchkay) : 2/8/2021 11:51:30 PM (GMT-7)

A coworker got vaccinated - she didn’t know if it was Pfizer or Moderna.
She had a sore arm around the site but no adverse reaction

Hoping I don’t regret turning it down. I may change my mind.

New rules in the workplace. Temperature checks have been required when we enter the building - and as of a few days ago, we have to get a mid-shift temp as well.

My wife got the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday. She does not have any chronic illnesses. So far a sore arm is the total of her effects. I woke up today slow and groggy. Treatment is kicking my butt. I can hear her working away in the office no worse for wear.

Re: Deaths after COVID vaccine

Keep in mind that eventually the majority of the human population will be vaccinated. There are 8 billion people on earth. Death is a fact of life. People die all the time. It is inevitable that there will be many cases of people receiving the vaccine and dying shortly after. That does not mean there is a causal link between the vaccine and death. There is a lot of fearmongering crap on social media right now.

While I do appreciate a good, thought-provoking conversation, I meant for this thread to be about my vaccine experience and is a place for others to share their experiences too. Maybe we could have a separate place to debate vaccines, causation vs correlation, etc. As many of you have said, side effects are real, and there have not been any long term studies on these particular vaccines simply because they are still new. My doctor recommended that I don't get the vaccine, and she's seen a few of her patients end up in the ER due to side effects, so I'm just logging and sharing my own experience to help others make a little-bit-more informed and very personal decision. Let's keep it supportive and civil and not try to change any minds here... 🙏😊


Also, to Girlie--I hope you can be confident in your decision, too! If I weren't a teacher headed back into the classroom with a bunch of germy students, I wouldn't have gotten the vaccine. I do a pretty good job of social distancing and staying home so I think I would've done pretty okay without the vaccine. I'm also not particularly afraid of COVID for myself, I like to think I'd get through it fine. But with being back at school and exposing family members to it (who feel very strongly about getting vaccinated) then I decided to bite the bullet and not deal with a potential fight/family drama. Hopefully I'll be fine from the second vaccine too, though I've heard the side effects are significantly stronger for the second dose. Speaking of, thanks for the heads up saraeli!

mitchkay said...
Hopefully I'll be fine from the second vaccine too, though I've heard the side effects are significantly stronger for the second dose. Speaking of, thanks for the heads up saraeli!

This was true for my wife and her co-workers as well re: Pfizer second dose.. side effects lasting 2-3 days, about as long as the genetic material.

I'd say as a middle aged man living in the suburbs, it's pretty unlikely that I could go on living unvaccinated and not eventually catch the virus. Therefore, the odds of longterm immune dysfunction and/or longterm tissue damage from the virus are very much in play.. last I heard it's about 10-30% of those who experience symptoms. And even for those who don't get symptoms, chest scans have shown about half with lung abnormalities, half with myocardial inflammation (latter from a smaller study of college athletes). These findings may or may not be of any consequence but they're definitely worth noting.

So Mitch, thank you very much for your report! It's good to hear of a vaccine experience from someone with Lyme... awaiting the update after your second shot and hoping it doesn't hit you too hard. I'll be sure to share my experience in a similar format whenever I'm afforded the opportunity.

..and Lymie24 does make a good point: if deaths in the vaccinated aren't occuring at a rate above deaths in the non-vaccinated, then it doesn't make a lot of sense to cover them in the news.. unless of course a causal link is found (deaths should be getting thoroughly investigated).

Post Edited (potsnpans) : 2/3/2021 9:14:08 PM (GMT-7)

Mitch: That's concerning, thanks for sharing. Are you still planning on the second shot?

Yeah that's terrible. To be honest though this doesn't influence my own decision making process (I'm more concerned with any potential for autoimmune problems).

I look at the early side effects as a brief, usually mild illness. Whether or not those people died because of the vaccine we will hopefully learn.. if some (or all) of them did, then I guess their elderly bodies couldn't handle it.. but I think we need to wait until the deaths are properly investigated before we make any judgements

It was the Pfizer (mRNA) vax. If more stories like this come out they may start to screen the older folks before they give them the mRNA vaccines.

That nypost article sounds like damage control. Older people w/ serious underlying conditions who die with a positive Covid test are largely said to have died from Covid, but when multiple older people w/ serious underlying conditions die after receiving the Covid vaccine, it's said there's "no evidence" the vaccine was "directly responsible".

No, I don't want to go through that again, haha. Was just showing that there could be some hypocrisy here regarding how they're denying evidence that the vaccine could have been cause of death but are many times quick to say that Covid was a cause of death.

ChristianWithLyme said...
Was just showing that there could be some hypocrisy here regarding how they're denying evidence that the vaccine could have been cause of death but are many times quick to say that Covid was a cause of death.

Hmm.. the data on excess deaths suggests that covid deaths have been undercounted. If vaccine associated deaths are also being undercounted, then you'd do better to accuse these Norwegian health officials of being consistent.