If you (or someone you know) tested positive post vaccination...

[TheVampiresWife]

a) was it after one or both doses

and

b) how ill did you feel/get?

I know someone who got it around 6 weeks after first. Whole thing lasted 5 days symptoms wise then fine. A couple of those were really rubbish though.

I know someone who got it about 2 months after their first dose. They had no symptoms, only knew they were positive due to a routine test.

DH 18 days after 1st

They feel tired but only had temperature for a day and oxygen levels remained good

I know of 2 people. It was after the first dose and both were asymptomatic, picked up by lateral flow tests (elderly care home residents).

A friend caught 2 weeks after first jab, very very poorly blue lighted to hospital and now suffering with horrific symptoms 2 months later.

Most of these are very reassuring, thanks all.

@Fruityfriday your poor friend, I hope she makes a full recovery soon. I think protection is reached 21 days after the first dose, I'm sure that's the figure I was told on here when I asked after I had mine. To have caught it just days away from immunity is so unfortunate.

I know someone who got it about four? months after second dose (she was in the trial, got it in January or so). She was fairly mildly ill for a week; picked up by lateral flow several days before she had any actual symptoms.

Interesting thread OP! Especially how it’s highlighting the importance of lateral flow tests too

@PinkPlantCase

Interesting thread OP! Especially how it’s highlighting the importance of lateral flow tests too

Definitely! Also, particularly encouraging that elderly care home residents were asymptomatic post vaccine.

Approx 2 months after 1st vaccine both of us mild symptoms but mine was slightly worse .
Symptoms were between us cough , cold , tiredness, breathless, loss of smell and taste.
Some Symptoms took a few days and we tested positive on the lateral tests followed by pcr test .

My dad (79) tested positive whilst staying in hospital , two weeks after his first jab. The only real symptom was feeling very tired very easily. That was two months ago and seems to have gotten over it now.

A friend did - felt like bad flu for a few weeks (one dose, early 40's)

A relative caught it in hospital when they were extremely ill with something else. Was two weeks past the second jab. Never developed any symptoms.

@FlattestWhite

I know someone who got it about four? months after second dose (she was in the trial, got it in January or so). She was fairly mildly ill for a week; picked up by lateral flow several days before she had any actual symptoms.

@FlattestWhite do you know which vaccine trial your friend was on? Did they get unblinded from the trial once they tested positive (so they would know if they’d had the vaccine or placebo on the trial?)

AstraZeneca. She was unblinded a week or two later, I believe, as she works in health care so was offered a vaccine relatively early, but she was willing to stay in the trial for a little while longer as the data was apparently still useful if she wasn't unblinded. But the vaccine offer was quite soon after and/or the official unblinding, I'm not sure, so she did end up finding out really quite soon (can't remember the exact sequence of events!). She was convinced the vaccine was what caused it to be a mild illness. She is young and fit, so I suspect it would have been mild in any case, but who knows. She wore PPE at work so doesn't know for sure where she caught it from - family members possibly.

Currently have Covid, had my first vaccination 7 weeks ago. My eldest son who isn't vaccinated tested positive beginning of April and I developed cough about 6 days later. Symptoms are mild, slight fever, loss of taste and smell and headaches.

I got it 2 months after first dose

Runny nose and small intermittent dry cough, couldn't smell or taste anything. Lasted about 5 days in total, didn't feel
Unwell at all.

Two colleagues in work. One had a positive test 5 days after first vaccine, was really unwell with typical covid symptoms etc (most likely caught it pre vaccine), the second had a positive test 3 weeks after first vaccine and had no idea she had it. It was picked up on random ward testing.

I know two, a husband and wife who both got Covid about 5-6 weeks after their vaccine.

The wife was fine, ill for a week but nothing serious whereas her husband died

DP got it a month after 1st dose, couldnt get out of bed for a week, nearly recovered a month later, worse symptoms were awful cough and fatigue.

A month after the 2nd jab and he died.

@ThornAmongstRoses

I know two, a husband and wife who both got Covid about 5-6 weeks after their vaccine.

The wife was fine, ill for a week but nothing serious whereas her husband died

He might have been alive if they had followed the manufacturers science of 21 days between vaccines.

And the recommended 21 days between doses

Last week, my DM passed away from covid about six weeks after her first vaccine. She had previously tested positive for covid three months earlier and been hospitalised but was recovering and had had three negative covid tests before her vaccine. She was hospitalised 10 days or so after her vaccine and tested positive again for covid - but they don’t know whether this was a new infection or a recurrence of the previous infection that hadn’t cleared completely. Worth also noting that she was on immunosuppressants and had been warned that they didn’t know if the vaccine would work for her given this.