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Please tell me your covid experience after being vaccinated…

27 replies

Stath · 12/12/2021 18:58

…to help me feel delightfully optimistic that I’ll be feeling super better asap.

I’ve had both jabs sand was booked to have my booster tomorrow but had a positive LFT on Friday. I keep telling myself ‘just imagine how ill you’d be if you’d not been vaccinated’ but I’m feeling fucking awful.

Two of the DC have tested positive this morning (so goodbye nativity and medical appointments for this week). DH has a scary meeting this week where he might lose his job Sad and I’m worrying about caring for my elderly mother too.

I’d love it if anyone could tell me they recovered in record time when the had covid after being vaccinated Smile

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Retrievemysanity · 12/12/2021 19:02

I did feel awful! Had my second AZ end of July, got covid towards the end of September. Had pretty much every symptom going and felt very sorry for myself although loss of taste and smell bothered me the most. I’d say I was proper fatigued for maybe 3 days and then very tired for a week. Cough was a couple of days. Taste and smell took ages to come back though and even now not 100 percent. Get well soon!

Franklydear · 12/12/2021 19:08

Similar situation here, only with the addition that I am vulnerable and shielded earlier on the year, I consider the fact that I am passing it at home a good result, I am very grateful for the vaccines, I have no doubt it would be much worst without them, I do feel better but not completely right yet 3 weeks on

TheSunnySide · 12/12/2021 19:08

I had my second jab in June and got Covid at the end of August. My symptoms were mild and after about day 6/7 I was OK. Had to isolate for a total of 12 days though because I didn't get symptoms to start with.

Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 12/12/2021 19:13

Double jabbed and had covid two weeks ago.
Felt pretty cheap and tired for these or four days. Breathless for a couple of days and still now occasionally if I'm out in the cold/over exerting but I have asthma.
Apart from that sense of smell and taste went for around two weeks but co.ing back now.
It was not as bad as I thought it would be. I'm glad I'd been vaccinated.

CrimbleCrumble1 · 12/12/2021 19:18

I caught covid five months and a week after my second jab so it was probably wearing off. I was very ill, I had vertigo and was prescribed anti sickness tablets. I had chills, fever and a terrible headache, sore throat and cough.
I needed antibiotics 5 weeks later as couldn’t shift some of the symptoms and am on another lot now (10 weeks after getting a covid) as am wheezy, nauseous and have the most terrible cough.
I had the booster a month after getting Covid.

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Stath · 12/12/2021 19:19

That’s all sounds pretty positive to me thanks.
Sent a pcr off yesterday and they’ve started testing for the Omicron variant.

Thanks for the get well @Retrievemysanity Smile
Youngest DC has just walked into my bedroom and said ‘I feel sick’ in a wobbly voice then proceeded to puke up about 56 litres of vom Envy

Most of it caught in an ‘heirloom’ 1970s chipped measuring jug so DH’s changing my (he’s camping out downstairs) bed and I’m gathering the motivation and energy to get off a chair and into the bath.

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Hen2018 · 12/12/2021 19:22

My oldest caught it after having one vaccination (it hadn’t been long enough to get the 2nd).

Really pretty ill for 3 -4 days (in bed, which is unheard of) then 3-4 more days of being breathless with no smell or taste. Then a sudden and complete recovery!

GougeAway · 12/12/2021 19:22

I caught CoViD 6 months after second jab. I wasn’t that ill with it, sore throat, headache, temperature, fatigue, loss of smell a week in, but took two months to recover. I was well enough to work but on my knees with physical fatigue.

blissfulllife · 12/12/2021 19:24

I had Covid last month. Felt a bit crap, but aches, cough and headache. But was over it by day 5. My dc had it same time with absolutely no symptoms they had one dose of vaccine I'd had 2 last dose in august

hartof · 12/12/2021 19:26

I had it in august after two vaccines as did DH. I was more poorly, I had awful diarrhoea (sorry) for days I just could not eat or keep anything inside of me. I had temp, shivers headache that would not go. I had one awful day where I did write letters to my DD and Dh in my phone as I felt so bad. But generally I was very glad I'd been vaccinated as I was fine after 10 days, I never struggled to breathe.

TiddleTaddleTat · 12/12/2021 19:29

My second time having covid was much, much milder and more like a cold than the first time in Mar 20. Before vaccination, I had a really awful experience and was almost hospitalised. Then long covid for months and months. 2 doses of AZ (and probable immune defence from prior infection too) made a huge difference for me. Very grateful for immunisations. Hope you feel better soon.

GingerFoxInAT0phat · 12/12/2021 19:30

I had my second jab in May, caught it end of July, I wasn’t too ill, switched from bed, to sofa, to outside chair, felt like the sun gave me strength in a weird way. Think the brain fog annoyed me the worst, felt like I was almost drunk.

I’ll be ringing Drs tomorrow though, think I might have long covid even though I wasn’t that poorly when I had it. I’ve been getting a lot of chest pain, and doing light chores around the house makes my chest so tight and hard to breathe.

Bythepath · 12/12/2021 19:31

I have just had it and am boosted. I lost my sense of smell for 4 days and had bit of a cold. Thats it.

Nikita1709 · 12/12/2021 19:37

Had my second jab in July and tested positive last Monday. Aside from a bit of a blocked nose, slight chesty cough and losing my sense of smell for a couple of days I barely noticed it to be honest.

DappledThings · 12/12/2021 19:45

I was positive on Tuesday, day after getting my booster. Tuesday-Friday I felt dreadful. Just so dizzy and exhausted and like everything was behind a veil. Slept loads in the day. Yesterday was a little better but after half an hour of trying to tidy up I had to go and sit down again for the next few hours. Today, totally fine. Snotty and the occasional cough but otherwise totally fighting fit, energy back etc.

NameChanged15729 · 12/12/2021 19:52

I didn’t realise I had it until around day seven Blush
Felt like I had a very mild cold coming on that culminated in a mild temperature for an hour or two. Hadn’t tested because up until then I’d had none of the symptoms that the nhs says you should test for. Feeling a bit hot was the first one!
Anyway, immediate positive on a lft. The next day I felt very tired but ok other than that and I was fine from the day after that. Two days after I tested the lateral flow went back to negative.

I was relieved because I’m third trimester pregnant and was expecting it to be a lot worse if I caught it even though I’m double jabbed.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 12/12/2021 20:11

I've had worse colds. No fever, no cough no loss of taste or smell.

SuperDuperJezebel · 12/12/2021 20:15

DH has it at the moment (just shy of 5 months post second jab) and he says he feels like he's just got a bit of a cold, absolutely full of snot and feeling mildly rough. But we had both been getting back to full health after a horrible non-covid cold and he feels better than he did then! I've managed to avoid it so far, thank god!

frazzledasarock · 12/12/2021 20:20

I have had both jabs. Positive PCR on Thursday.

Feels like flu (although I know on MN it’s not flu if you can function at all), 39.1 temp, aching joints shivers, ice cold hands and feet, dizziness, shortness of breath, and the most painful sinus’s my whole face hurts, and swollen glands. So far paracetamol doesn’t bring down temperature ibuprofen gets it’s down to about 37.8 then it shoots up again.
I’ve lost all taste, think also smell, and I have a horrible cough but it’s not the dry rattling cough I had last time.

I’m feeling slightly better today but my temp is still yo-yoing and can’t taste a thing.

Hope this passes quickly.

For me I’m very glad I am double jabbed, if I weren’t this would be so so much worse!

Animum2 · 12/12/2021 20:32

DH tested positive for Covid in September, 6 weeks after his 2nd jab, he had a couple days not feeling right before he took the test and this turned into a mild cold of sorts and he was over it in a week

wingingit33 · 12/12/2021 20:39

I had second jab in May. Got covid in September (at 15 weeks pregnant Hmm). I didn't lose any senses or cough but had the worst congestion of my life for about four days. Being pregnant I was given fragmin injections for ten days.

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Stath · 12/12/2021 21:04

@GingerFoxInAT0phat the brain fog is awful!

Thought it was being perimenopausal that was causing it but it must be covid.

It seems so strange, looking back to the start of the pandemic when the symptoms seemed quite prescriptive (‘can’t be covid cos your cough is snotty’etc) but now there’s a whole range of symptoms that are connected.

Littlest DC is now fast asleep next to me, she had a horrible headache and just wanted to sleep Sad

Anyone else had migraines/bad headaches as their main symptom? She had her first ever headache last week that turned into a migraine with ‘sparkly lines’ which I’m thinking was the start of it.

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astockingforme · 12/12/2021 21:21

I recently got covid a few days after my booster, caught from my son (primary aged so unvaccinated). It was like a very bad cold- sinus headache, watery, sensitive eyes and fatigue. 5 days where I felt properly rough but fatigue lasted longer. Not pleasant but I've been worse with other illnesses. I was still able to shower, put washing machine on and make lunch for my toddler (who also had it). Husband was similar.

Meredusoleil · 12/12/2021 21:22

[quote Stath]@GingerFoxInAT0phat the brain fog is awful!

Thought it was being perimenopausal that was causing it but it must be covid.

It seems so strange, looking back to the start of the pandemic when the symptoms seemed quite prescriptive (‘can’t be covid cos your cough is snotty’etc) but now there’s a whole range of symptoms that are connected.

Littlest DC is now fast asleep next to me, she had a horrible headache and just wanted to sleep Sad

Anyone else had migraines/bad headaches as their main symptom? She had her first ever headache last week that turned into a migraine with ‘sparkly lines’ which I’m thinking was the start of it.[/quote]
Yes my dd2 tested positive with headaches as her main symptom. One half day of slight fever and that was it! She is 9yo.

burnoutbabe · 12/12/2021 21:26

A week in and it's just like a cold. Though am getting occasional ear ache now.

I can still taste fine though. Smell not so much but that's normal with a cold.

Am working as normal from home and doing university course though my brain isn't as sharp right now.

Was due my booster tomorrow so had to postpone another month.