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

[Puddinandpie]

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!🙂🤒

I’m not vaccinated and was only mildly ill.

What I’ve noticed is that people either feel absolutely dreadful, or barely notice they’ve got it. Not in between.

DH and I have covid at the moment. Tested positive last weekend. It was mild for us. We're both triple vaccinated. We're both over 40yr, overweight and not particularly fit.

We felt pretty bloody rough for 3-4 days and I still feel washed out now but it did get better. We sat in the garden alot and I've kept windows open to help with fresh air. We also regularly took lemsip.

However, there are some medicines they say interact with covid and not in a good way - e.g cough syrups for tickly/dry coughs apparently they can make it worse and make it drag out longer.

So other than lemsip and normal paracetamol we've just drank loads of water and tried to keep the air clean in our home as much as possible. Probably take a week or so to be fully back to normal but it was essentially mild for us.

@7eleven

What I’ve noticed is that people either feel absolutely dreadful, or barely notice they’ve got it. Not in between.

Ive got it and I would say I am in between. Not really unwell but certainly in heavy cold territory. I'm still managing to potter about though.

You may be suffering from more than covid, eg another virus or an infection?

Most people I know who’ve had covid recently have described it as like a bad cold.

I had it a few weeks ago, I’m 32 weeks pregnant and felt awful for about 3 days (sore throat, sneezing, body aches, nausea, cough) and DH had the same just less severe. Our 6-year-old also had it and had we not tested him we’d have assumed it was a cold, as he was sneezing and coughing but not lethargic or feverish.

We’re all triple jabbed apart from 6 year old.

We have a large number of friend's in our friendship group (10 couples) without exception those who have NOT had the vaccine have been less poorly and recovered days quicker than those who have. It's a strong talking point in our group at the minute as it's a significant difference. All healthy, mid-30s..

@Sosigsandwich well that's food for thought, I'm mid thirties and I do wonder how well would I have been not having been vaccinated!

You must be so glad you had the vaccinations.

I am CEV and had Covid and due to three injections survived it.
My three uncles did not and died

I’m glad I had the vaccinations

We all had it recently (unvaccinated DC, me double vaxxed and DH triple vaxxed). I had it the most mildly, followed by the DC. DH caught it last and suffered far more.

I'm sure I read somewhere but I can't remember where now that the vaccines have the potential to make the immune system lazy as the body will learn to rely heavily on the vaccines, and then there's also once they start waning aswell! (I was trying to research before I had vaccines as I honestly wasn't sure about them initially, but it was all a bit pointless as I went ahead anyway

Not me, but I do know 1 or 2 people who have had really awful COVID despite jabs - but for the vast majority of peers it's been mild.

Yes, I did.

I'm just getting over Covid. I was in bed for 5 days and have been off work for 2 weeks. I would liken it to when I was hospitalised with double pneumonia a few years ago.

I am fully vaccinated including booster. But it has been over 5 months since the booster so I'm guessing that it is waning now.

I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated.

I was very late in having my booster (5 months) and I’ve got covid and it’s pants. The bit that gets me is that I feel better until I do anything at all. Eg I’m currently in bed after washing up and making lunch!!!!! Ffs.

My ds has it. He’s had one jab. He’s ok. Bit snotty but nothing major.

Had three jabs, have Covid now, just a sore throat really.

I never had any of the vaccines and have never caught covid. Most of my friends have been vaccinated, 98 percent of them have had covid.

I’m triple vaxxed and caught Covid in January. I run a lot and yesterday was the first time I managed 4 miles since. I cried I was so happy!

I’m pretty sure I had it before it became a ‘thing’ in late Feb 2020. So ill I was seriously concerned that I was going to die (never normally ill) due to not being able to breathe and having severe, painful chills. It came out of nowhere, lasted 6 days, then disappeared overnight!

I’m triple jabbed and tested positive last week due to DC testing positive. Had literally an evening where I had chills and a beginning of sore throat feeling, then completely back to normal.

3x Triple jabbed adult DC had similar symptoms or none at all.

Had covid almost 2 weeks ago. It was like a bad cold for me at 32, double vaccinated and boosted at the end of November. I have a few friends who are currently positive who are stuck in bed feeling absolutely dreadful, a couple who are asymptomatic but picked up on LFTs for work and a few others like me who are somewhere in the middle. No one I know at the moment has been severe enough to need medical help, but most of my friends are around my age so I suppose that would be unusual.

@Aishah231"I know no one wants to hear it but it could be that having the vaccine weakens your immune response to variants"

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

To be completely clear: both of these suggestions are wrong.

The govt's UK Health Surveillance Agency investigates this and produces regular reports. The most recent report is assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063023/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-12.pdf from a few days ago.

The vaccines are similarly effective at priming your immune system to reduce the risk of illness, irrespective of whether it's omicron variant BA.1 or BA.2 (chart on page 13).

If you do get sick with BA.2, the vaccine is actually more effective at preventing hospitalisations than if you got BA.1 (table on page 14).

My friend (early 50s) was hospitalized before Xmas. She had had two vaccines and was due the booster. On the other hand, the staff told her she would probably have died without any vaccine.

On the other hand I recently had Covid. One day of temp/aches etc. Then just a cough. Triple vaccinated.

I was covid positive for 4 days in February and felt nothing but a mild cold. I'm 100% unvaccinated. My 2 friends who caught it at the same time (we were out together) were positive for 2 weeks and sick in bed for 10 days. They are both jabbed and boosted. But whatever 👍

I don't think I've ever felt so unwell. I'm triple vaxxed, but my entire body aches, sore throat, breathless, dizzy and a headache that won't shift.

I'm in bed, and apart from wobbling downstairs from time to time, I'm staying in bed. Paracetamol every 4 hrs, plenty of fluid and hopefully I'll be up and about soon. I dearly hope that neither DH or DD end up with it.

I was really unwell, i had to go to the emergency unit. 3x jabs.
My DH and MIL had a milder version (3xjabs as weel)
I have 3 friends unvaccinated. One got only a runny nose, second one sick for 2 weeks and on the mend, third one 1 month with oxigen support.

I think covid it's just absolutely impredictable.

Ds2 (14) has had one vaccine - he has covid and is very very unwell. He hasn't been able to stand up for 24 hours, says he has a lump in his throat and can only have ice lollies. Hasn't ran a fever.

DD (10) has it, she had 24 hours of very high temp (39.9), vomited once and was a bit tired on Tues/Weds but fine now. Still positive on LFT. Doing my head in as she is so bored, would take her out to countryside for fresh air but can't leave DS2. Me, DP (triple jabbed and hospital workers) and DS1 (18) (never been jabbed because he won't ) all negative. This disease makes no sense!