No side effects with Astra Zeneca!

[Dee2997]

Had AZ at the weekend. Was told side effects are very common!

Also I know a quite a few people who have had it and the vast majority have had side effects. Some feeling very ill.

I’ve not had a single side effect. I’m grateful I’m not feeling poorly but worry it’s not been as effective as it should be.

Literally everyone else I know who’s had it has had side effects.

Anyone else not had any side effects at all?

@MrsElf

I had no unpleasant side effects. I was a lot more thirsty than usual, did anyone else notice that? Notaflyingmonkey might be onto something, maybe drinking lots helps? I do get headachy when I’m dehydrated, and a couple of times I felt I was on the cusp of that, but had lots of liquid (nearly 3 times as much as normal, that day and the next 5, frequently feeling properly thirsty with dry mouth and everything) and it never came to anything.

I haven't had my jab yet, but I have long covid, and one sure sign a fatigue episode is coming on is drinking pint after pint of water.

Five of us had it. One of us - arm doesn't even hurt. One had headache 24 hours after jab, for about 12 hours. Two of us had sore arm, exhaustion 24 hours after for 12 hours.

I had on Sat at 5pm.
Sun a bit tired.
Sun around 5pm v tired. Snd arm suddenly started hurting loads more.
Monday super tired - went to bed.
Mon 5pm felt suddenly a lot better and by 7/8 on like was fine.
This morning arm doesn't even hurt snd fell totally good.

The other person had exactly same as me, same time frame.

The fifth person - she felt worse. Same time frame but she had painful back etc. Took paracetamol and was ok.

Typos 🤦‍♀️

I have a sore arm but that's it. Having covid would again be WAY worse, even if I had pretty severe side effects. Everyone I know agrees with me too. Funny how that works.

I work in a doctor's surgery. We have had one person call severely ill after a covid vaccine (and she was very elderly and it could have just happened anyway). So please don't worry.

That’s interesting parker. That you started to feel more tired 24 hrs later.
My jab was at 4pm yesterday. I took paracetamol and drank a lot of water yesterday evening and slept like a baby last night. (I usually wake up several times in the night).
I have woken up feeling heavy but really rested.
I’ll see what today brings!

I had no side effects. Quite relieved to find this thread as I wondered if it meant it’s not working as well.

No side effects at all, not even sore arm

Me - slightly tender where the needle went in for a couple of days
DH - shivery and feverish for a couple of days after

And 2 colleagues
One, female, felt fluey the next day; the other, male, sore arm for a day or 2.

Probably 50/50 amongst friends and colleagues that I've asked - a lot higher than people that had Pfizer.

There was an interesting program on R4 last week that said AZ reactions were typically a lot less with the second vaccine.
They also said more severe side effects if you'd recently had covid. I had my vaccination on day 29 after testing positive (you have to leave a 28 day interval) so I'm really cheered that round 2 should be a lot smoother.

Still glad to have had it as soon as I was able.

If you read the leaflet they give you 1 in 10 people have some mild symptoms, which is quite high.

Felt slightly under the weather for 24 hours, not debilitating - I didn't need paracetamol. Most of the other people I know who have had it reported the same - sore arm, bit heady, carried on as normal.

It will be interesting to see how people react to the second dose compared to their first dose.

I had mine about a month ago, arm ached a bit - like the flu jab - and that was it.

No noticeable negative side effects, but like @Whenthesunshines I slept without interruption, which is very unusual for me. No bother getting off to sleep either, 3 nights on the trot. I should get the AZ jab every week.

My arm was sorer than I normally experience with vaccinations for a few days, and that was all. DH had no side effects at all.

I had mine yesterday morning. Was fine till 2.00am when I woke up cold sweating. Feeling a little better this morning but very lethargic.

I think you will find that people tend to talk more about it if they have side effects, but it’s down as 1 in 10. So actually most won’t have any

I had it Saturday, no side effects at all

Haven't had it yet, but it seems about a third of people I've known who've had AZ have had side effects. Anecdotally, looks like Pfizer doesn't cause them quite as often. Well, looks like I'll find out for myself some time next month

@Chloemol

I think you will find that people tend to talk more about it if they have side effects, but it’s down as 1 in 10. So actually most won’t have any

I had it Saturday, no side effects at all

I was thinking the same this morning!

I had a bad side effect, I felt the need to call off for cream cakes on the way home, apart form that, nothing.

I bought myself some lemon puff biscuits, just in case I needed them after my jab. They were rank.

BBC: Vaccine side effects: My experience of them and what they mean
James Gallagher, Health and science correspondent

8 hours ago

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56375307

Just reporting in: flu jab-type tenderness in my arm and quite a bad and persistent headache the day after,
but really not extreme. I've been taking regular paracetamol.

Had mine 4 days ago. Nothing at all until the morning after when I woke to a sore arm and a fuzzy head. Took a couple of pain killers and was fine. Arm still a little bit tender now but not enough to be bothered with pain killers or anything