Crikey there are some harsh responses on this thread that are quite uncalled for. So everything who’s moaned they’ve had a bad reaction is now a whimp of some sort according to some?? Jeez, just because other people have had a worse reaction than yourself doesn’t make their experience invalid!
I had mine fri, sat morning fine apart from backache, then bam by 5pm sat (30hrs later) I was burning up, 40deg temp, shivers and chills despite being under a duvet a blanket and wearing a dressing gown and 3 pairs socks, everything ached/hurt, especially back and hips. Went to bed early with some heavy duty painkillers, slept through and felt ok again this morning.
So brief lasting, but it was exactly like the actual flu-which I had 17yrs ago and was bed bound with for 2 weeks, just a much shorter period of time.
Definitely not a wuss of any sort, 5 natural births without pain relief and appendicitis that wasn’t diagnosed for a week alongside a bowl that was twisting. Very Rarely ill and rarely take painkillers.
Don’t regret it and would have it again but forewarned is better-you can put stuff in place like not working the next 48hrs and making sure you have childcare help etc and then if you don’t react that’s great but if you do at least you’re prepared.
Out of our workplace of 36, 2 of us had full blown reactions, the rest just had sore arm and felt abit tired, bit of a headache, 2 people out of 18 we support was unwell, one mildly and one with a reaction that matched ours but with vomiting as well.