Double vaccinated breakthrough Covid, anyone else?

[FVFrog]

Second vaccine June, Astra Zeneca, awaiting pcr but had positive lateral flow yesterday, feel like I have a bad head cold, absolutely no sense of smell (couldn’t smell a pot of coffee brewing yesterday which first alerted me…) and today have horrible metallic taste in my mouth and nothing tastes right, taste or texture anyone else?

@WhatMattersMost it’s actually the official term, not mine!

@chipsandgin I was just looking to share experiences as to how long I could maybe expect to be ill etc. I live on my own, it’s good to hear how other people have found it. I think everyone will catch it at some point. I’m assuming the isolating is to keep it at a manageable rate for medical services for those who still need treatment.

Just to clarify. Breakthrough infection is actually the official term for contracting Covid and experiencing symptoms after double vaccination. I didn’t make it up!

And thanks to all who have shared symptoms, it’s good to hear how other people have found it.

@KaleJuicer

Yip me too. Been double jabbed since May but caught it off DD who picked it up at school last week. Seem to have a whole shopping list of symptoms: headache, sneezing, coughing, fever, loss of smell, everything, tastes funny, skin is sensitive : pressure of clothes etc really uncomfortable, resting heart rate is 10-20 bpm higher than usual and reduced o2 sat (have pulse ox at home). Now on inhaler steroids which has helped the breathing. Think I am day 7.

Can’t imagine how bad it would be unvaccinated!!

Yikes. How low are the O2 sats?

[quote FVFrog]@WhatMattersMost it’s actually the official term, not mine![/quote]
I know :)

Pfizer Feb and May and got a positive LFT then PCR last week in August-moderate cold symptoms, loss of smell for a couple of days, over in 10 days apart from a bit of residual tiredness (and a flare up of long covid resulting from the FIRST infection in 2020…).

I got it several months after being double jabbed AZ. It's the Delta variant - it is hugely more transmissible so even with vaccination you can pick it up fairly easily, but it's still likely to ward off the worst levels of illness. It wasn't at all nice but I think it would have been much worse if I was unvaccinated. However, do take it easy in your recovery as weeks on I'm still very tired. Someone I know said the tiredness lasted a month at least after having it.

I know of 2 people who are positive who haven’t had the vaccine yet and everyone in their workplaces who have had it are negative and everyone who hadn’t had it have had positive PCR tests and we were all saying how well the vaccines must work. So it’s worrying to read how many posters have caught it after they’ve been double jabbed.

It's worth remembering - and reminding ourselves time and again - that the aim is for everyone who catches Covid is double-vaccinated.

This is not an eradication-vaccine.

*to be double-vaccinated

DH and I both double vaxxed - AZ. Both have covid now.

Dh quite unwell with it - but he has his vax a long time ago (January) as medic.

I seem to be less unwell so far - had mine in May.

Dread to think what it would be like without the vax!

@Bumpsadaisie

DH and I both double vaxxed - AZ. Both have covid now.

Dh quite unwell with it - but he has his vax a long time ago (January) as medic.

I seem to be less unwell so far - had mine in May.

Dread to think what it would be like without the vax!

Eek. What does "quite unwell" mean?

@toocold54

I know of 2 people who are positive who haven’t had the vaccine yet and everyone in their workplaces who have had it are negative and everyone who hadn’t had it have had positive PCR tests and we were all saying how well the vaccines must work. So it’s worrying to read how many posters have caught it after they’ve been double jabbed.

Everyone in my team of 5 are vaccinated and 3 of us caught Covid. It isn't worrying, people really need to understand that the vaccines will not stop you catching it but will very likely reduce the severity of symptoms.

DH and I both have it just now. Mild symptoms due to being double jabbed (AZ). Our sons seem to have escaped catching it (Pfizer vaccine)

@Waxonwaxoff0 was everyone okay?

It isn't worrying, people really need to understand that the vaccines will not stop you catching it but will very likely reduce the severity of symptoms.
Vaccines will stop a significant proportion of people from catching Covid, but obviously "a significant proportion" is not the same thing as 100%.

I tested Friday with my son, me pos, him neg. Partner tested positive on Monday. He had been away and came back with it. Both double jabbed AZ since March. He's feeling better though not 100% and on day 6 today. I'm on day 2 🙄
Only had 20 mins contact with him on monday and most of that masked!

[quote Chowmeinhotdog]@Waxonwaxoff0 was everyone okay?[/quote]
Yes, I'm 31 and my 2 colleagues are in their 40s and 50s, we were all back at work after 10 days. Colleague in her 50s was a bit tired for a couple of weeks after. I do still have issues with my sense of smell and taste which is irritating!

I think the expectations about preventing catching it come from the high efficacy rates reported by vaccines against the original variant. All in the 90%s.

Deltas a different story, though thankfully they’ve held up against severe disease.

Me and DH are double vaxxed and we had it in August. He was completely asymptomatic and I probably was, too - I say that because I had a few sneezing fits and a slightly watery nose/eyes and a migraine a few days before I tested positive, but I have allergies and regular migraines so neither of those things a) aroused suspicion or b) are unusual for me. He's Pfizer, I'm AZ. I'm CV so was surprised and very glad to be (probably) symptomless.

DD 24 who lives with us in a v small flat and didn't isolate from us because she couldn't didn't catch it. Fully vaccinated with Pfizer.

We all had it last year pre-vaccines and there was a huge difference in how ill we were. DH was particularly unwell. Thank goodness for vaccines.