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

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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!🙂🤒

Nope 2x vaccine (AZ) then covid, still fine. Boosted (pfizer) recently got I think covid again but largely AOK. Like a malingery day in bed where I thought I should make more effort but instead went back to sleep.. no cough.

Triple vaxxed and tested positive last Tuesday and I’ve barely been ill. I’m in my 60s with a few serious health conditions. I’ve been very lucky. My 3 friends who also tested positive around the same time and are a bit older than me and all triple jabbed have been really unwell - high temps, wracking coughs, aching, short of breath, pounding headaches and dizziness. Really not good. My neighbour also had it last week and WFH through it. She is in her 30s, triple jabbed but has bad asthma and is obese. She was only a little out of sorts with it. It seems so arbitrary as to how it affects everyone. I’ve been so scared of getting it, as had my neighbour because of our various health issues. My DB and SIL are really fit, eat healthily, have no health problems and we’re also really unwell. It’s weird.

Many people I know who have been triple vaxxed have ended up bed ridden and sick for weeks
Me and DP are both unvaxxed and had a very mild cough before Xmas not sure if it was covid as neither of us do tests but for two years we’ve not suffered.
Did have a bad cough in Feb 2020 before tests were Available

I have learned a lot about the immune system since the covid thing broke and we both eat extremely healthy.

It's possible you have something else and just happen to be positive for covid at the same time.

I was fully vaccinated when I got Covid. I felt pretty poorly for a few days but I have had other nasty viruses before that have been pretty similar.

I had it at 39 weeks pregnant and didn't even know. Literally gave birth with it and found out I had it half an hour later. Had a cough since then and been a bit snotty. Also have other children and a breastfed newborn and haven't felt anymore tired than usual. Had both jabs and a booster at Christmas.

There will be disproportionate numbers of unvaxxed on this thread and reporting to friends about how they breezed through Covid, because it supports their decision not to get vaccinated.

Not saying those people are lying, though I suspect some are minimising their symptoms. It's more that those that were badly affected aren't really going to broadcast that they made the wrong decision not to be vaccinated.

Agree with you OP (have name changed to avoid the floods of abusive messages). I haven’t had any of the vaccines through personal choice. Had Covid twice and felt a bit icky, but been mostly able to continue working from home - I think I’ve had one day off through both illnesses. The rest of my family and my other half are all triple jabbed, and all in excellent health. Some of them had Covid pre-jab and had a similar experience to me, and some of these people have caught it again post third jab. The second time has seen them literally unable to get out of bed, and my sister got home last week from a few days in hospital as she became so poorly. I have honestly never seen these people so unwell - I’m not saying it’s the jab, but it’s a heck of a coincidence. It’s not “anti vax”to say that we do need to be honest about side effects - the jab is obviously great for helping vulnerable people become less unwell, but since there is no real, concrete evidence that it significantly reduces transmission in any meaningful way, I have serious concerns about the need for every man, woman and child to have three or more doses of this thing.

You poor thing OP. I have it now but although I feel a bit rubbish (am in bed) essentially my symptoms are a bad cold/flu. I am triple jabbed.

It must be awful having young kids to deal with, feeling how you do. You have all my sympathy 💐

I was confirmed positive yesterday. Not had it before and I am triple vaccinated. So far my symptoms are pretty mild, if I had felt like this pre pandemic, it is not something I would have taken a day off work for.

I had the mildest case of it out of all the people I know. I was and am the only one unvaccinated. I was 17 weeks pregnant too. I would have continued working if it wasn't for having to isolate. A younger colleague got it at the same time as me (who I think I got it from) and had it way worse. Although she'd only had 1 vax. She had to be off sick work after her isolation ended as it was bad.

My husband had Covid pre- vaccine (Alpha variant) and post vaccine (Delta variant). He said there was absolutely no comparison. Pre-vaccine all of us were incredibly ill. Post vaccine it just felt like a rough cold - unpleasant but manageable.

Vaccines are helping.

I had Covid last January - I had not had and vaccines - and was really really rough - for weeks. I couldn't breath, lost taste, felt like i had been hit by a bus... etc - literally had every symptom! Covid mouth, Covid hands...

I have had my jabs and booster - and just tested positive on Saturday.
It feels like a cold. Sneezing, runny nose, small cough, and a little tired - no where near as bad as when i had it unjabbed. Also just me in the house that has it - DS and OH no symptoms at all.... and testing negative

Had 3 vaccines here January 2021 /April 2021 / November 2021. I got covid on December 28th and had what I would describe as a mild cold. Stuffy nose, tired, headache and loss of taste and smell for 4 days in total. If I had got this 4 years ago, I would have carried on my day to day including work, shopping, general childcare duties as normal but probably more rest in between.

I believe that the vaccine has worked well and without it, I almost definitely would have been in a worse condition. I am old, fat, asthmatic and have scarred lungs from a previous pneumonia bout.