Could anyone tell me the truth about side effects?

[MagicSummer]

I have been so looking forward to getting my vaccine, but now that it is booked for Wednesday, I am getting cold feet. I have read a few horror stories about people feeling they 'have been run over by a bus' or having bad headaches and very painful joints. Has anyone experienced bad side effects or are people just attention-seeking?

I had the AZ yesterday and didn't even feel the needle. I would swear they didn't do it if I didn't know better.

No side effects whatsoever not even a sore arm. As I said, I wouldn't know I had an injection. The flu vaccine always gives me a really sore arm for at least 4 days and I can't sleep on the side it is given.

I was a bit worried about side effects as I have my parents' funerals to go to this week and, obviously, don't want to be too ill to be able to go.

Both parents died of covid last month within less than 2 weeks of each other. I am just very happy to have had the vaccine

On lynsey91, that is so sad :(

I have slight nerve niggles in my non-dominant arm so had it in my "good" arm - nothing more than felt a bit bruised for a couple of days there (the niggles I have in my other arm are still after a previous non-related jab so there's history there of my arms being buggered up by jabs). Felt basically mildly like Sunday morning after a good Saturday night - slightly headachey and sicky and blooming tired.

Milked it a bit and stayed in bed scrolling shit on my phone most of a weekend.

@lynsey91

I had the AZ yesterday and didn't even feel the needle. I would swear they didn't do it if I didn't know better.

No side effects whatsoever not even a sore arm. As I said, I wouldn't know I had an injection. The flu vaccine always gives me a really sore arm for at least 4 days and I can't sleep on the side it is given.

I was a bit worried about side effects as I have my parents' funerals to go to this week and, obviously, don't want to be too ill to be able to go.

Both parents died of covid last month within less than 2 weeks of each other. I am just very happy to have had the vaccine

Oh Lynsey, I am SO sorry to hear that, (biggest hugs). 💐

I had the Oxford vaccine yesterday. My arm feels slightly sore to the touch and I feel a little bit under the weather today (tired and achy) but nothing major. I haven't needed to take pain killers or go to bed early.
Hope it all goes well for you!

@MagicSummer

I have been so looking forward to getting my vaccine, but now that it is booked for Wednesday, I am getting cold feet. I have read a few horror stories about people feeling they 'have been run over by a bus' or having bad headaches and very painful joints. Has anyone experienced bad side effects or are people just attention-seeking?

To put it in perspective, you don't die from the vaccine...

Sore arm the next day around the injection site.... which isn't surprising when a piece of metal has jabbed it and injected fluid in it!

DH had his recently (AZ) and was quite under the weather for 48hrs, but he had Covid quite badly last March and has since been regularly antibody tested when donating plasma (high antibody levels all year). I suspect prior exposure to Covid may well have contributed to slightly worse side effects. He probably doesn't need a second dose, but he will absolutely have it. A couple of days feeling a bit rubbish vs an entire month of sickness is a no-brainer. Most worrying for me is that he was volunteering today at a vaccine centre and they were half-empty, the organising of getting people booked in for their vaccines seems to have gone a bit to pot now they've hit the 15m. Hopefully it gets back on track soon.