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Original poster

To ask if you have had the vaccine and got covid and still felt at deaths door? Be honest!

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 09:49

I have had vaccines, we'll my whole family has except youngest ds who's 4 and to say the least he has coped considerably well having covid over the last few days! My other 3 children have been bed ridden through tiredness and temperatures and being sick, coughs etc, but are on the mend after 4days!

On the other hand me and dh have felt like shit!
We both have had continuous excruciating leg and back pain that won't go, chest pain, headache, even our eyeballs hurt, coughs, snotty noses, dizziness, unable to stand/walk, I have been sick numerous times!
We have literally been bed ridden the last 4 days and still don't feel like there's an end insight, I physically just don't feel any better and neither does dh!

I'm just glad my children are on the mend, but my point is we had covid last year before we had the vaccines and didn't feel as bad with it, and it's making me wonder whether anybody else has had the same with covid after having the vaccines?

Sorry for all the typos don't flame me I'm not well!🙂🤒

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 10:16

@upperdown the leg pain is horrendous it makes it so I can't sleep at all and it doesn't let up! For me it goes more into the groin/hips rather than buttock.

I honestly thought it was going to feel like at most a very bad cold after vaccines but maybe that's my naivety and hopefulness getting the better of me!

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Lillyhatesjaz · 26/03/2022 10:17

I think it's a difference in variants me, DH and DS have just had it not too bad, like a cold but I feel really tired,a lot of my local friends have had similar. DD has also had it lives in a different town much worse, feverish headache short of breath many of her friends the same. All triple jabbed

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 10:20

Im sending Flowers to everyone who is poorly with covid i really do hope you all get better soon

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WoolyMammoth55 · 26/03/2022 10:21

Hi OP, I've just tested positive for the first time - been lucky to dodge it so far. Am triple vaxxed. Feel AWFUL. I think I am day 9 post symptoms (which were gastric/sinus-infection like, not fever and cough) but no better yet.

This is also weird - I took 3 LFTs in the first week as felt so rough, all negative. Then ordered PCR tests for whole family, instructed by school due to DS's class having lots of cases. I'm the only positive one! But all those LFTs were useless, which is really shocking.

No restrictions is one thing, but faulty LFTs giving false negatives is really adding injury to insult!

Anyway, wish everyone better soon

Chewchewaboogie · 26/03/2022 10:25

Yes ! Second most ill in life with it .

Aishah231 · 26/03/2022 10:26

Surely surely the government should be investigating the effects of any new variants of covid on both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. I know no one wants to hear it but it could be that having the vaccine weakens your immune response to variants - it's possible that natural immunity would give you more depth of resistance to variants. It might not but given the money, lives lost impact etc of the pandemic and lockdown it's irresponsible to just presume.

SallyWD · 26/03/2022 10:28

Yes. I was triple vaccinated, got the supposedly mild Omicron and felt awful. Like a bad flu where I couldn't get out of bed, or even pick up my book. For 2 weeks I was in a bad state then had fatigue for a further 2 weeks so 4 weeks in total. Shortly after recovery I got another chest infection (directly related to Covid). I do get a bit annoyed when people say "Oh Omicron is just a mild sniffle." That may have been THEIR experience but I know quite a few who've felt terrible. I'm pleased to say I feel fully recovered now and didn't catch Covid this week when my son had it.

mrsmalcolmreynolds · 26/03/2022 10:32

@WoolyMammoth55 that's really unfortunate you had negative LFTs but it doesn't mean LFTs are faulty or useless - they picked up DS bringing it home from school twice when he had no real symptoms.

irishfarmer · 26/03/2022 10:33

I'm finally testing negative today :) I had it last week. I felt very sick for a day or two like a very bad cold. Still a small bit throaty. It made my sciatica way worse though like I could not walk! My sister (also preg) had it about a month ago and was only sick with a cold for a few days. Her two unvax'd kids were the same level of sickness as her.

Eeksteek · 26/03/2022 10:33

Double jabbed and felt pretty shit, but only mum-shit. Still fed everyone etc.

Several people I knew were really poorly. Trouble is there’s no way to know just how shit we’d have felt if not jabbed. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to how ill it makes you. I suppose it’s the same as a flu. Some years are awful for deaths and hospitalisation, some not so much.

Geezabreak82 · 26/03/2022 10:34

Yes. Had three doses of Pzier - main doses in May and July last year, booster in December. Caught covid four weeks later so should have been at the peak of immunity but it was horrendous. I didn't end up in hospital but I spent two nights awake, struggling for breath and wondering if I should be going to A&E. I needed two weeks off work, then I had a further two weeks where I probably should have been off because I didn't get much done. It was two months until I felt physically well again and I'm at the three month mark now and I don't feel like my cognition is back to normal yet.

raspberryjamchicken · 26/03/2022 10:34

Anecdotally, staff at my school who have had it in the past few weeks seem more unwell than the ones who had it around November/December. The kids seem to be having more symptoms too, especially vomiting.

Coord · 26/03/2022 10:36

Triple vaxxed and I'm 6 days into a bout of covid. It is worse than I thought it would be - like a very bad cold, but not as bad as flu.

I'm in my 50s, slightly overweight, the booster was 4 months ago and I think I got a big viral load - an all day event in a small room with lots of face to face animated talking where 50% of the attendees later tested positive. So considering all that - the vaccinations have stood up pretty well.

justasking111 · 26/03/2022 10:46

@Coord interesting point about viral load

irishfarmer · 26/03/2022 10:50

Never said, both my sister and I have had 3 vax's. My husband hasn't picked it up from me. Her's didn't either (both have 3 vax).

TheFallenMadonna · 26/03/2022 10:59

DH, DD and I all have it. It's like flu I guess for me. Stubbornly high temperature - 5 days now. Thought it was subsiding yesterday, but back up today. DD had a bad headache for 3 days, DH practically no symptoms. I was first to be boosted (early November), DH late November, DD last month. I reckon its just how it hits you.

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 11:00

@Aishah231 that's what Im thinking now, but the government don't care enough and that's the reality unfortunately!

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EmetophobicElle · 26/03/2022 11:03

YANBU, felt awful! Mild Omicron = not that mild for lots of people!

CheshireChat · 26/03/2022 11:07

@WoolyMammoth55 according to my GP, the LFTs have a 30-40% error margin if you already have symptoms.

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 11:07

@Geezabreak82 that's really awful! And must have been so frightening

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Puddinandpie · 26/03/2022 11:16

@Eeksteek that made me laugh about only mum shit! Same here I feel literally like zombie crawling out of bed trying not too faint going at snails pace to mop up vomit, get drinks, feed children, distribute medicines it's been a bloody struggle to say the least🙈
My second eldest knocked drink allover his bed this morning and it literally took me an hour to sort it out I kept having to sit down as my knees felt like they were buckling and my heart felt like it was going to fall out! Something that takes 5 mins usually!

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MaudieandMe · 26/03/2022 11:34

I've got it currently and had my booster in December. It just feels like a bad cold at the moment, so hoping it stays that way.

However, I've had proper flu twice in my life (last time was about 10yrs ago when DS was about 18months old). The symptoms you're describing sounds like me when I had Flu previously. Also, it's very common to feel knackered with lingering symptoms several weeks after normal flu, but they will go away after a few weeks in most cases.

I do think a lot of people who've never experienced ordinary flu are probably shocked with how ill they feel with Covid.
Try not to worry though.

Vick99 · 26/03/2022 11:55

I haven't had the booster (for various health reasons, I'm not anti it) so my most recent jab was last August. I had Covid a few weeks ago and it was fine - no different from a very standard cold. And I'm in early pregnancy so would have expected it to be worse.

I'd love to know how much difference the jabs actually make with the current variants - if any.

emmylou24 · 26/03/2022 11:57

I've had 3 jabs and had covid twice, first time I felt really ill for week and took a month to fully recover and then then caught it again beginning of Jan, 3 weeks after booster, I'm still not recovered and having test next week for long covid

Iwannerbeyourslave · 26/03/2022 12:03

Got covid now, for the second time. Tripple vacci ated but much worse this time. BUT the whole family had a cold, which I caught, then I caught covid at work. On top of the cold! Luckily, nobody has (yet) caught covid from me and I tested negative for the first time today. My daughter came home from school yesterday and said her friend had gone home after being sick. I freaked...a cough, covid and a vomitting bug in one week would kill me. Am keeping fingers crossed.