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Post by haapai on Apr 21, 2021 6:14:41 GMT -5
I got my second dose of Moderna yesterday.
I got it in my left arm this time because the right was still sore. The soreness around the injection site appeared more quickly and is more severe. In retrospect, switching arms was a bad idea. I don't sleep very well on my back.
Still worth it!
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Post by daisylu on Apr 21, 2021 8:04:51 GMT -5
I got my second dose of Moderna yesterday.
I got it in my left arm this time because the right was still sore. The soreness around the injection site appeared more quickly and is more severe. In retrospect, switching arms was a bad idea. I don't sleep very well on my back.
Still worth it!
I get my second shot of Pfizer at 11:30 today, so this is good to know.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 9:01:42 GMT -5
I got up with slight muscle and joint soreness, kind of like I did too much in the yard. It's wearing off rapidly. I woke up at some point freezing but that's because it dropped to 48 overnight and I was too lazy to get up and grab a blanket. My temp was up from my usual 97.7 to 98.4. DH has some muscle soreness too but he's unsure if it's the vaccine or that fact that our mattress is getting old. The injection site is a little tender but not bad. I'll try to take a nap this afternoon after chores and errands.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 21, 2021 9:13:13 GMT -5
I got pfizer #2 Saturday morning, and I still feel a little twinge in my upper arm from time to time. I only had to go 10 miles away, about a 10 minute drive. My DH got his appointment for P2 in the city where he works, which is 35 miles away. There are open appointments now just a mile away, but we wanted sooner vs. convenient. He's probably going to be late because he left 35 minutes before his appointment. Did I mention that man is constantly on the toilet?
My 64 year old coworker got her second moderna shot Monday. Was out of work yesterday due to side effects, and again today. I have to cover for her, and I don't have a lot of extra time right now. Plus, she's a workaholic, so it worries me that she's out. I hope she feels better soon.
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Post by snapdragon on Apr 21, 2021 10:21:35 GMT -5
I just got the first jab of Moderna yesterday. The second one is while I am on staycation just in case I don't do the greatest.
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Post by daisylu on Apr 21, 2021 12:08:14 GMT -5
Second shot of Pfizer down. I am WFH tomorrow, but told boss & employees that I may not be available just in case.
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Post by pooks on Apr 21, 2021 13:03:02 GMT -5
Got the second Pfizer shot this morning. Starting the 2 week countdown.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2021 9:59:31 GMT -5
I got the second dose of Moderna last Tuesday, then on Friday had the second worst allergic response in my life.
The worst was when I was pregnant, and my dr said my system was cranked on high due to being pregnant, so that made the allergic response worse (flu like). I’m wondering if the vaccine had the same crazy effect. (It wasn’t Covid, I got tested for that).
We certainly have plenty of my nemesis, tree pollen floating around right now to trigger the allergic response.
Wondering if any other allergy sufferers experienced the same exaggerated response.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Apr 22, 2021 10:09:05 GMT -5
I received my 1st Pfizer on Jan. 22, 2021. # 2 was Febr. 12, 2021
Both were done at a drive thru at one of the local hospitals.
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Post by jerseygirl on Apr 22, 2021 10:13:06 GMT -5
Fabulous that so many on this site have been or shortly will be vaccinated and more safe!
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Post by swamp on Apr 22, 2021 12:50:52 GMT -5
I had my second Pfizer shot yesterday afternoon. I felt fine last night.
This morning I woke up tired, thirsty and with a mild headache. I also had cramps which is a recurring peri menopausal problem. One of those afflictions would have been no big deal. All of them together sucked. I vaguely remember sending out a text at 7:45 telling work I wouldn’t be in. I woke up at 10.
I’m still exhausted. But I’ll take this over covid
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Post by teen persuasion on Apr 22, 2021 13:11:44 GMT -5
Just got my second Moderna shot. I'm working this afternoon/evening, but have the next 3 days to recover if I need to - coworker and I swapped for Saturday, just in case. Hopefully I will not get much more than the sore arm like last time, which didn't interfere much at all.
Next week the younger boys get their second Pfizer. DS4 just started a new job, and he's warned them he won't be in next Friday, maybe Saturday if he's still sore; it's a pretty physical job, he'd be useless with a one arm out of commission.
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Post by pooks on Apr 22, 2021 13:22:46 GMT -5
Yesterday a few hours after getting dose 2 of Pfizer, I had chills, achy, headache, and tired. None of those symptoms were severe and some of it was probably due to lack of sleep the night before. Today I feel fine, just a sore arm and really sore lymph nodes on the side of the injection.
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Post by haapai on Apr 22, 2021 14:45:39 GMT -5
I asked my BF to give scheduling a vaccine appointment another whirl this morning. About five minutes ago, I asked him if he had done so. He hadn't, but immediately started doing so. Within 30 seconds, he had signed up for a pharmacy appointment a mile away this Saturday.
This was the closest place to get a shot and the first place that he looked. I almost wonder if he could get a shot tomorrow (or a Pfizer shot) if he looked farther out.
I don't know whether to be furious, relieved, or scared for everyone else. Shots do not appear to be scarce or hard to get in my town anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2021 15:10:40 GMT -5
I got the second dose of Moderna last Tuesday, then on Friday had the second worst allergic response in my life. The worst was when I was pregnant, and my dr said my system was cranked on high due to being pregnant, so that made the allergic response worse (flu like). I’m wondering if the vaccine had the same crazy effect. (It wasn’t Covid, I got tested for that). We certainly have plenty of my nemesis, tree pollen floating around right now to trigger the allergic response. Wondering if any other allergy sufferers experienced the same exaggerated response. Our tree and grass pollen count is off the charts so I wondered yesterday how much of my mild headache and congestion was post-vaccine and how much was pollen. Literally, I stood in a parking lot yesterday watching yellow pollen fall like snow on my arms. No headache today but wheezy and drippy nose. I made DH use Flonase last night so we could both sleep and I didn't get arrested for domestic assault.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 22, 2021 15:29:02 GMT -5
My grandma was short of breath the day after Moderna #2. I do wonder how much was related to allergies and the pollen being out. She coughed a lot after the second one and into the next day. My dad said she did not sound good when he told her she was going to the ER. They checked her over and gave her a breathing treatment. She was much better after that and slept very well that night once she got home.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 22, 2021 16:35:07 GMT -5
I got the second dose of Moderna last Tuesday, then on Friday had the second worst allergic response in my life. The worst was when I was pregnant, and my dr said my system was cranked on high due to being pregnant, so that made the allergic response worse (flu like). I’m wondering if the vaccine had the same crazy effect. (It wasn’t Covid, I got tested for that). We certainly have plenty of my nemesis, tree pollen floating around right now to trigger the allergic response. Wondering if any other allergy sufferers experienced the same exaggerated response. Our tree and grass pollen count is off the charts so I wondered yesterday how much of my mild headache and congestion was post-vaccine and how much was pollen. Literally, I stood in a parking lot yesterday watching yellow pollen fall like snow on my arms. No headache today but wheezy and drippy nose. I made DH use Flonase last night so we could both sleep and I didn't get arrested for domestic assault. I have been sneezing a crazy banana pants amount. I walked outside and there was a layer of pollen on my windshield. 🥺
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 22, 2021 17:50:27 GMT -5
Our tree and grass pollen count is off the charts so I wondered yesterday how much of my mild headache and congestion was post-vaccine and how much was pollen. Literally, I stood in a parking lot yesterday watching yellow pollen fall like snow on my arms. No headache today but wheezy and drippy nose. I made DH use Flonase last night so we could both sleep and I didn't get arrested for domestic assault. I have been sneezing a crazy banana pants amount. I walked outside and there was a layer of pollen on my windshield. 🥺 We had a very rainy winter, I wonder if that’s encouraged a lush pollen production. It’s definitely heavy.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 22, 2021 19:09:22 GMT -5
Well we are having a really, really, bad drought but my recently washed white car is currently yellow.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 22, 2021 19:22:57 GMT -5
The pollen that you are all talking about isn’t causing the problem
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2021 7:18:26 GMT -5
Yanno...I had this crazy notion that the cases of covid aren't really going down in a big way. Remember trump insisting that if there wasn't so much testing there wouldn't be so many cases? Well. Used to be that wherever there was testing being done, there'd be long lines of cars waiting for hours. Now wherever there's testing being done, it's a matter of just driving right up, getting tested, driving away in a matter of minutes. Our governor crows daily about the low number of new cases. Pfffft. JMO, but it only appears that the cases are are down dramatically because fewer people are bothering to get tested. I'm way past week two of the second dose but still wear my mask outdoors. We went out to eat at a restaurant on the square last Sunday, and the crowds of people on the sidewalks and in the park were shoulder to shoulder. I was the freak with a mask and didn't take it off until we were in a nearly empty section of the restaurant. And pulmonarymd, that's not "you all." It's "y'all."
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 23, 2021 7:37:27 GMT -5
Yanno...I had this crazy notion that the cases of covid aren't really going down in a big way. Remember trump insisting that if there wasn't so much testing there wouldn't be so many cases? Well. Used to be that wherever there was testing being done, there'd be long lines of cars waiting for hours. Now wherever there's testing being done, it's a matter of just driving right up, getting tested, driving away in a matter of minutes. Our governor crows daily about the low number of new cases. Pfffft. JMO, but it only appears that the cases are are down dramatically because fewer people are bothering to get tested. I'm way past week two of the second dose but still wear my mask outdoors. We went out to eat at a restaurant on the square last Sunday, and the crowds of people on the sidewalks and in the park were shoulder to shoulder. I was the freak with a mask and didn't take it off until we were in a nearly empty section of the restaurant. And pulmonarymd, that's not "you all." It's "y'all." Never did learn my southern. Did have the experience of driving a yellow car in April when I lived in NC. Pollen was impressive.
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Post by Opti on Apr 23, 2021 7:41:21 GMT -5
I have wondered whether the case counts have been influenced by the lack of testing. Right now, we seem to be off the highs of the 70K+ and even 80K+ counts, and I'm wondering what really changed. Vaccination rates are improving, but still the states with the highest rates of vaccination are at 30 to 32% fully vaccinated and about 48 to 50% of people with at least one vaccine shot.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 23, 2021 7:57:58 GMT -5
I have wondered whether the case counts have been influenced by the lack of testing. Right now, we seem to be off the highs of the 70K+ and even 80K+ counts, and I'm wondering what really changed. Vaccination rates are improving, but still the states with the highest rates of vaccination are at 30 to 32% fully vaccinated and about 48 to 50% of people with at least one vaccine shot. Vaccination has clearly impacted case counts. Age range in the hospitals has skewed younger, when compared to earlier in the pandemic. We have had a 20-25% increase in hospitalizations compared to our recent nadir, but they have been essentially flat for weeks now. Deaths are flat too. Anecdotally, all our hospitalizations are in unvaccinated individuals. So I think we are in a strange place. Cases will likely start trending down due to vaccinations slowly increasing and seasonality. This likely represents a blunting of what would have been another surge, mainly due to the large number of at risk individuals being vaccinated
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Post by daisylu on Apr 23, 2021 8:07:57 GMT -5
Second Pfizer shot got me the next day. Woke up and shot an email off to HR and all of a sudden my eyelids felt like they wieghed a million pounds. Could not keep them open. Made it back to bed, slept a couple of hours before I could not escape the bathroom urge - sat there for a few minutes after I was done, debating if I wanted to try to make it back to the bed. I did, and was ok by noon, but 3:30 had overwhelming need for another nap - only 30 minutes that time. Then around 8PM I had a low grade fever, gave up and went to bed. It broke a few hours later and today I feel fine (so far).
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Post by saveinla on Apr 23, 2021 8:30:45 GMT -5
Got my second Moderna shot yesterday - so far only a sore arm and some insomnia. Keeping fingers crossed that there are no additional side effects.
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Post by Opti on Apr 23, 2021 8:50:06 GMT -5
I have wondered whether the case counts have been influenced by the lack of testing. Right now, we seem to be off the highs of the 70K+ and even 80K+ counts, and I'm wondering what really changed. Vaccination rates are improving, but still the states with the highest rates of vaccination are at 30 to 32% fully vaccinated and about 48 to 50% of people with at least one vaccine shot. Vaccination has clearly impacted case counts. Age range in the hospitals has skewed younger, when compared to earlier in the pandemic. We have had a 20-25% increase in hospitalizations compared to our recent nadir, but they have been essentially flat for weeks now. Deaths are flat too. Anecdotally, all our hospitalizations are in unvaccinated individuals. So I think we are in a strange place. Cases will likely start trending down due to vaccinations slowly increasing and seasonality. This likely represents a blunting of what would have been another surge, mainly due to the large number of at risk individuals being vaccinated I think vaccinations have changed who is getting Covid and dying from it, but if you look at NJ's graph of daily cases we are not much better than the winter holiday peaks and currently as bad off as we were last year this time except our death rate is lower. This is in spite of having one of the highest vaccination rates in the US as a state. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-jersey/Of course each state is different, and North Dakota who is only slightly better vaccination-wise than NJ has a much nicer curve of case counts. I don't know if part of that is population density or NJ having more exhaustion with Covid restrictions or what. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/north-dakota/
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 23, 2021 9:01:35 GMT -5
Vaccination has clearly impacted case counts. Age range in the hospitals has skewed younger, when compared to earlier in the pandemic. We have had a 20-25% increase in hospitalizations compared to our recent nadir, but they have been essentially flat for weeks now. Deaths are flat too. Anecdotally, all our hospitalizations are in unvaccinated individuals. So I think we are in a strange place. Cases will likely start trending down due to vaccinations slowly increasing and seasonality. This likely represents a blunting of what would have been another surge, mainly due to the large number of at risk individuals being vaccinated I think vaccinations have changed who is getting Covid and dying from it, but if you look at NJ's graph of daily cases we are not much better than the winter holiday peaks and currently as bad off as we were last year this time except our death rate is lower. This is in spite of having one of the highest vaccination rates in the US as a state. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-jersey/Of course each state is different, and North Dakota who is only slightly better vaccination-wise than NJ has a much nicer curve of case counts. I don't know if part of that is population density or NJ having more exhaustion with Covid restrictions or what. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/north-dakota/Nationwide, hospitalizations in the over 65 group are down 80. Their rate of hospitalization is now the same as the 55-64 yo. Cases may have gone up, but deaths have not followed as closely as they did earlier in the pandemic. Cases in nursing homes are also down significantly. And the vaccines are fabulously effective in the real world. There are regional variations sure, some of which are weather related, lifting of restrictions, and places that didn’t spike as badly this winter seeing rising cases. But the peaks we say last spring and winter will be blunted. We are not seeing the geometric growth we have seen earlier. Pandemics typical ebb and flow with case rates for a myriad of reasons related to the virus and behavior. As I said, cases will plateau at a lower place than they would without vaccination, and will slowly decline with more people receiving the vaccine. The main driver of how long that takes will be vaccination hesitancy
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Post by pulmonarymd on Apr 23, 2021 9:17:25 GMT -5
One additional fact. This is not the same virus that was circulating last spring. More contagious variants are driving the numbers. Imagine if these variants were here one year ago. The disaster would have been catastrophic. India may show us how bad
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