Wow! Finally, I can reply... was having slow-forum posting issues all week...
Over here in the USA, some states don't give a choice either. At least they didn't in the beginning. Now that most people have been vaccinated at least once with J&J or twice with Moderna or Pfizer, they get to choose where to go and which vaccine they want, if such a choice is available.
Unless someone got a J&J to start with (ONE and done! haha), most people I know stayed with the version they started with to get a booster.
My hubby got a Moderna booster, and said it wiped him out on the 3rd day. Chronic fatigue, extreme icy chills, and fever hovering up to 102. I made him hydrate and did what I always do for the flu -- wet cool rag on forehead, soup and crackers, applesauce... Did not want to take him to ER, if possible... been there for other things, and ER was overbooked with many COVID sounding people.
I got my Pfizer booster and was hoping for the same reactions I had during the first rounds... slight pain in arm at vaccine area, and not much of anything else. Fatigue is normal with me, since I have always had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but I've been forced to be more active because things had to get done, and I couldn't settle down to relax (laundry, groceries, general other stuff).
However, both my hubby and I have had chronic neck & shoulder pain that's been hurting ever since he got his booster. It was weird because I thought either I picked up sympathy pains from him, or was heading near the end of my own vaccine cycle, and that was my body's way of telling me to get a "boost" soon.
Anywho, I'm only a few days into this booster now, but also dealing with weather pains (arthritis), so I can't figure out what is a vaccine issue or *old age* stuff. LOL. I will be keeping a watch on the armpit swelling up again, especially since I got the vaccine in the same arm as the previous ones. The nurse thought that was a good idea, and said a lot of people were complaining about their armpits swelling up for a few days or weeks. Unfortunately, mine never healed up completely... 8 months later...
The nurse couldn't explain away that one.
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Unless someone got a J&J to start with (ONE and done! haha), most people I know stayed with the version they started with to get a booster.
My hubby got a Moderna booster, and said it wiped him out on the 3rd day. Chronic fatigue, extreme icy chills, and fever hovering up to 102. I made him hydrate and did what I always do for the flu -- wet cool rag on forehead, soup and crackers, applesauce... Did not want to take him to ER, if possible... been there for other things, and ER was overbooked with many COVID sounding people.
I got my Pfizer booster and was hoping for the same reactions I had during the first rounds... slight pain in arm at vaccine area, and not much of anything else. Fatigue is normal with me, since I have always had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but I've been forced to be more active because things had to get done, and I couldn't settle down to relax (laundry, groceries, general other stuff).
However, both my hubby and I have had chronic neck & shoulder pain that's been hurting ever since he got his booster. It was weird because I thought either I picked up sympathy pains from him, or was heading near the end of my own vaccine cycle, and that was my body's way of telling me to get a "boost" soon.
Anywho, I'm only a few days into this booster now, but also dealing with weather pains (arthritis), so I can't figure out what is a vaccine issue or *old age* stuff. LOL. I will be keeping a watch on the armpit swelling up again, especially since I got the vaccine in the same arm as the previous ones. The nurse thought that was a good idea, and said a lot of people were complaining about their armpits swelling up for a few days or weeks. Unfortunately, mine never healed up completely... 8 months later...
The nurse couldn't explain away that one.
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