I had my first AZ vaccine in Feb, my arm hurt almost instantly and I had a weird sensation in that hand. I felt unwell for approximately 36 hours afterwards with aches, pains and an overwhelming exhaustion.
Had my second AZ vaccine on Friday, felt fine immediately afterwards, but in the early hours I woke up and can only describe it as feeling as though ice cold water was shooting through my veins, accompanied by an awful headache and aches and pains everywhere. I couldn’t get warm, felt cold to the bone but by morning I was hot to touch, but shivering and shaking. I couldn’t stay awake on Saturday and felt lousy. Nausea started yesterday, followed by dizziness. Today is more of the same, headache is barely touched by painkillers, eyes feel heavy and light sensitive, brain fog, dizziness, blood pressure is low and lowers further when standing. My resting pulse has dropped to 45bpm (I’m in my early 40’s) which normally sits around 53bpm. I couldn’t go into work today, I am not capable of driving, the exhaustion is overwhelming.
In my case, 2nd dose has been far worse than 1st. I’m normally at the gym every day, this has floored me! But, despite all this, I’m still glad to have been vaccinated but not sure I’d want to repeat this annually. I don’t react to the flu jab.