Really regretting getting the Covid jab (warning pity party)

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I had my COVID vaccination on Saturday. I have had all the available boosters since lockdown as I have had some health issues that put me in a "slightly vulnerable to COVID" category.

Went to local chemist had the jab and a charity shop mooch, then came home all fine. 10-12 hours later I start feeling ropey. I know I might be in for a rough night as I have been known to react badly. So I had violent chills, followed by feverishness, crazy fever dreams, headache untouched by paracetamol, couldn't get out of bed for a wee without help, joint pain, nausea, loss of appetite ... This went on for 24 hours. I was still a wreck on Monday, so day off work, Tuesday tired but felt better and felt normal by the evening. I expected to be back at work today.

Then in the middle of the night, chills again I was shivering violently, headache returned plus sore throat and a cough. Most likely an opportunistic virus 🦠 but I am wondering why I put myself through all this🙄

Not sure if the net benefit outweighs the massively inconvenient time off work and feeling like shit-ness of it all.

I will think hard before taking the next booster if offered. I have the flu jab every year - never any issues with that one.

That's interesting. All mine have been Pfizer, and I've never had side-effects.

When I had Covid, I had it incredibly mildly, so I put it down to Covid not being a big deal for me, for some reason, but maybe side-effects vary between manufacturers.

Years ago, I had the flu vaccine and it made me feel utter shit for ages, so I never bother with it now. I've only had flu about 4 times in my entire 68 years, so I'd prefer to risk the flu, frankly.

I am pro-vax but I had an awful neurological response to the vaccine. It completely ruined my life for six months. I had muscle convulsions within 20 minutes of the jab which spread slowly over the course of six weeks all over my body. My left arm in particular spasmed every three minutes day and night for three months. I had a whole day of tests in a specialist neurological hospital. They suspected a brain clot in my brain or spine, but eventually I was diagnosed with having had an antibody nervous response to the vaccine. I went from perfectly healthy to being on beta blockers to try and stop the convulsions, then to diazepam to help me sleep through the spasms and then to sertraline to try and calm down the overwhelming anxiety and panic that I would become incapacitated. I will never have another vaccine again. Two years and the convulsions have settled but I still get them daily and they aren’t noticeable to anyone else. When my kids have had jabs since my husband has to take them as I’m not sure I’d could go through with it.

Am I the only one who had a positive reaction to the latest jab? Had Covid. 4 weeks later still feeling rough, got the jab and the next day all my symptoms had gone!

But you don't know that it wasn't the jab.
Yes, she could have come down with a cold/flu at the same time as the chance and it was therefore a coincidence but at the same time it could have been the jab.
You can't state with such certainty that it wasn't the jab, just as the OP can't state with certainty that it was the jab.

I was laid up for a week after all three of my jabs. I have not had another one since and won't be getting another one. I can't afford to have a week off work every time I get a jab.

I've had one Covid jab and felt like utter shite. This was October 2021.
I haven't had one since and each time I have Covid it has the exact same effect on me and I feel like shite for around 2-3 days.
I've had Covid 3 times this year.
I had a different cold bug a few weeks ago and it was absolutely horrendous. I was sick for about 3 weeks and only just recovering.
There's a lot of stuff flying about, some
of it worse than Covid. Covid has never put my nephew in hospital but this weird virus did. My son's been having to use an inhaler.
I'll never have a Covid vaccine again as I don't see the point. I'm high risk as I'm asthmatic but it never affects my chest.
And after the reaction to the flu jab I had this year I doubt I'll be signing up for any of these vaccines ever again!

I tested positive for Covid one day after my first jab!! So I could have blamed my (v mild symptoms on the jab) however I knew I had had a possible contact with someone who had it so I tested!!
basically trying to say it could be a flu, a cold or COVID - but coincidence that it was also the same timing as the vaccine (or even a mix of both )
I really doubt that the vaccine would give you a cough it usually would give symptoms that stimulate a a immune response so the fever headache and aches potentially
but sore throat or cough not heard that one. I’ve had the vaccine three times now no side effects other than a sore arm
ive also had COVID four times now and all very mild like hayfever
except for the second time I had brain fog and feeling tired for about three weeks (no other symptoms)
I know everyone reacts differently to jabs and Covid and viruses but I’m just writing my experience for anyone that is interested in the different experiences!
ps what you just described is like the bug my parents have just both had and neither of them have yet had the COVID vaccine but they both will do soon as they are feeling better

Thanks for the reply - good that they've receded somewhat.
Mine appears in my left shoulder sometimes and makes my arm tingly. I did start taking magnesium but maybe need to up the dose.

I got a weird skin rash after the boosters. Apparently it's really common. It wasn't red or even that visible, just really bumpy down the arm where I got the shot. They used both arms at different times so both my arms were really bumpy. I regretted it so much, I still got sick with every strain that came around. So I quit getting the boosters, got Covid since then and it was really horrible, but at least the rash is clearing up finally.

Was it the moderna jab? I felt like that after the moderna but have felt fine will all other covid boosters I have had.

A few years ago I was set to get my flu jab - work offer it free. But I got called to an emergency so didn't go. That night I had awful flu symptoms and was ill for about 10 days. If I'd had the jab I would have blamed the jab for my illness, when it would have been co-incidence, with incubating flu already underway.

It's always a gamble either way, as none of us can know in advance how either the vaccine or the disease will affect us personally. There is no absolutely safe option while those things are both unknowns.

For covid, for most middle aged and older people, the stats show vaccination is safer than not, but that doesn't mean there won't be some individuals who it will turn out would have been better not being vaccinated.

The problem is how to identify those people in advance - we don't have a way to do that right now. So we all gamble, and a tiny minority of us are unlucky. But not being vaccinated is also a gamble, where a larger minority will be unlucky and get dangerous or long term covid damage.

We're all stuck between those two fundamentally uncomfortable alternatives, so long as we have no way of avoiding catching covid. That's what would provide a truly safe alternative.

I didn't intend to make it sound like the alternatives are equally unsafe, though. For most people vaccination is clearly the best choice, just not a perfectly safe one, because there is no such thing as a guaranteed safe choice.

This is the most sensible and balanced post on this thread. People should absolutely weigh up
the pros and cons for their own individual situations.

I can’t bear these “you’re a covidiot for having an untested vaccine” (untrue and offensive) and “you’re a granny murderer if you don’t get vaccinated” (also untrue and offensive).

How does she know that? That's exactly how I felt after two of my three covid jabs.

The unwelcome side effects from covid vaccinations are almost always so mild and, if worse so rare, that this thread is pointless.

To any waverers: if you’re recommended any vaccinations by a properly qualified source, have them. They will protect you from potentially awful consequences of infection at virtually no risk to you.

Anecdote =/= data.

I doubt it was the jag and is just a coincidence OP.

I only got a single side effect with the first two jags and this last one as a CEV I’ve had many covid jags. The side effect was a having a normal persons appetite and it was amazing. Just sad it didn’t last and I’m ravenous again.

I had the jab and the next day got a puncture on the car. I will not be having the jab again.

This made me laugh out loud.

Totally agree, not only unnecessary but also harmful.

And? You can literally say that about anything in life.
Rather than challenging someone on their 'anecdotal evidence', maybe challenge those who said having the jab would stop you getting Covid... 🤔

I literally cannot believe people are still getting these jabs. Are you completely oblivious to the news? And I'm not talking about under a rock conspiracy news. Mainstream news like:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/09/the-real-covid-jab-scandal-is-finally-emerging/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-jab-defective-claims-legal-case/

Reports would suggest side effects are neither mild nor rare.
And since the UK government has already issued thousands in Covid vaccine damage payments, I'd say your comment, at best, is ill-informed and, at worst, highly irresponsible.

OP if you have 'some health issues that put me in a "slightly vulnerable to COVID" category'. Would you not want people to have the jab, so you are at less risk?

I think you are the irresponsible one as you fail to mention how many people have so far received or are due to receive those payments.

Which suggests serious side effects are indeed rare.

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