Covid experience when fully vaxxed?

[Chowmeinhotdog]

I have a wedding next week that I don't feel I can get out of. I'm so anxious about finally catching this disease I've avoided for so long.
Double vaxxed with Pfizer since July.
What have other people's experiences been like when they caught covid after being fully vaccinated? Was it the worst illness you ever had?

No. It was very much like a cold. A not particularly bad cold. I felt illish for 3 or 4 days.

I have it at the moment, symptoms on Monday, tested positive on Wednesday. So far its like a head cold, first couple of days I had an upset stomach, trouble sleeping and pressure headaches. Cough started Wednesday, hasn't really go going and I wouldn't class it as persistent today. I am aware of my nose and the back of my throat, my sense of smell has disappeared and my taste is on its way. On a plus side, I am virally affected asthmatic and my breathing has been ok so far.

Like a cold. I’ve had worse colds

We are a household of three, both of us are double jabbed and been super cautious due to our vulnerable child.
We have been literally nowhere but caught Covid , we went down one by one a week or so apart and its been absolute hell. I can't quite stress enough the exhaustion it brings, we are over our "illness"/symptoms aside from still having no taste or smell.... but my God it's knocked the stuffing out of all of this. All this talk of it bring a bad cold in our experience couldn't be further from the truth. I went for a ten minute walk yesterday and felt like I'd done a marathon it's very debilitating.
We have been invited to a wedding next month but will have to decline because I'll do everything to make sure we don't go through this again.
Take care OP.

How? How is this possible @DoubleShotEspresso?

Are you for real?

I, like OP, am very worried about this. I also have a vulnerable child and I work in a school.

Where could you and your husband have caught it from?

These vaccinations cannot be working if stories like this are true.

DD has just come back positive and I've had almost identical symptoms -

Day 1 Vomitting /upset stomach around 3 times.
Day 2 - Dry mouth and throat
Day 3/4/5 - Very heavy cold so cannot breathe through nose. Same time cough starts which leaves mucous in mouth and weird rashes start. Struggling to breathe and cannot sleep. DD is OK with breathing so may be as I have allergies / asthma. Quite confused and out of it for me.
Day 6/7 - Cold is still very heavy, cough is making DD vomit about 3 times, me once, more upset stomach. I can breathe a little through nose. My taste and smell have gone completely.

Roughly were we are now. DH is double vaccinated and on week 3 of symptoms - vomitting, cold, sinus problems, sleeping 20 hours a day for about 2 weeks, hard to wake, starting to improve now.

I would say for us similar to like a gastric flu. For me the scariest bit was breathing but that appears to be improving. We are both AZ x 2. DD is 15 so no vaccine, her friends positive also same vomitting plus colds. None of us has had a temp, only I lost taste and smell. Did have coughs but not until later on.

So the vaccines don’t work @Silkiescatz.

I watched a meeting /video with doctors from the JCVI the other day. Delta has slightly different symptoms but is no more severe than Alpha. They were very clear on this.

It seems with or without vaccines some get it bad and some mild.

The vaccines aren’t making any difference - are they?

@pontypridd

How? How is this possible *@DoubleShotEspresso*?

Are you for real?

I, like OP, am very worried about this. I also have a vulnerable child and I work in a school.

Where could you and your husband have caught it from?

These vaccinations cannot be working if stories like this are true.

Partner wfh, we have only visited a local playground and park and been to but trainers for school /PE. That's it . Have been getting groceries delivered since first lockdown and all else via Amazon. Don't do takeaways or anything?! I think it can only be the playground possibly? So frustrating I feel like our child is being robbed of their childhood and we are just going to be "existing" as opposed to living until winter is over. I've big had a break since 2018 (full time Carer to complex needs child/excluded from school so been epic). It's insane

Sorry to doubt you @DoubleShotEspresso

I had to give up a lot of anxiety and doubt to have the vaccine and am now in a horrible place of deep regret.

Your story is unbelievable. But I wonder whether shutting yourself away makes it worse?

No scientist has said this - but my amateur guess/ hope is that by being out there getting bits of Covid day in day out we may be keeping ourselves constantly topped up with immunity.

I hope so anyway.

Maybe that’s why people who never go out catch COVID out of nowhere seemingly. You’re not at all the first person I’ve heard this from.

DH vaccinated in this house and was in bed for a week, strong fever, cough, headaches and cold. He lost smell and taste. The cough wasn’t awful and his breathing remained fine. He is CEV so the vaccine saved his life, without a doubt.

2 x children - fevers, pale, feeling sick, sore throat, mouth ulcers and cold symptoms but felt fine

Me….waiting on symptoms to start

Really high temperature for 4 days, just high now on day 5 (38.4, down from 39.4). Cough, cold and congestion , and CBA to do anything. DC tested positive same time, had a mild temp and things tasted funny for 3 days. Back to normal. Am so grateful to the vaccine - it would probably have been worse for me without it.

I had it before I was jabbed and it was still far from the worst illness I've ever had.

It was worse than your average cold but not as bad as flu, tonsillitis, chest infection, UTI etc

I mean everybody is different but that was my experience

A friend works in covid ward and says all their cases recently are unvaxxed people. So it does work, just unfortunately doesn't mean you can't catch it.

I suppose you can be unlucky. Like you're not supposed to have chicken pox repeatedly but I've had it twice.

@pontypridd

Sorry to doubt you *@DoubleShotEspresso*

I had to give up a lot of anxiety and doubt to have the vaccine and am now in a horrible place of deep regret.

Your story is unbelievable. But I wonder whether shutting yourself away makes it worse?

No scientist has said this - but my amateur guess/ hope is that by being out there getting bits of Covid day in day out we may be keeping ourselves constantly topped up with immunity.

I hope so anyway.

Maybe that’s why people who never go out catch COVID out of nowhere seemingly. You’re not at all the first person I’ve heard this from.

It's a challenge for us as our child is vulnerable and also both my parents whom I'm trying to support as much as possible (both had spells in hospital in last year for various things). My best friend who lives a short drive away lives with her mother who's currently going through chemo. Just as I was thinking about perhaps "getting out a bit more" this happened. I'm not tempted at all now given the nonsense and chaos of school measures being removed and isolation requirements being removed. I actually feel like I'm damned whatever we do at this point tbh. Battled the devil to obtain the school place we will Ce taking up on Monday and now I actually feel like we will be throwing our child into a roulette wheel. I hate this government and all they stand for.

@pontypridd

How? How is this possible *@DoubleShotEspresso*?

Are you for real?

I, like OP, am very worried about this. I also have a vulnerable child and I work in a school.

Where could you and your husband have caught it from?

These vaccinations cannot be working if stories like this are true.

In fairness last year my whole household came down with a bad cold one by one over two weeks, when the only place we had been was a park where we stayed miles away from anyone. Only one indoor thing which was my DH nipping into a well ventilated and empty toilet with an FFP3 mask on (yes we're that cautious). Hand gel galore. 5 days later DH is shivering with a sore throat and we all go down with it despite self isolating from each other in the house. We all swabbed neg and to be honest we all had "mild" symptoms (it was like a standard flu) and no loss of smell/taste. If we can all go down with something less contagious than covid in those circumstances, you can definitely catch covid in a playground full of children even with distancing.

When double vaccinated @Chowmeinhotdog?

My sister isn’t vaxxed. Neither are a couple of friends. Same as my kids. There will be many who are mixing and out and about yet never catch Covid.

How is that?

Horrific. I started a thread a few days ago. I’ve had nearly every symptom and have never felt so poorly in my life.

I caught it from one of my dc who caught it from school.

I tested positive on the 7th of this month so today I am officially allowed back out in the world again. I only had a PCR because I was in contact with someone with symptoms, other than feeling my glands up a bit and being a bit more tired and needing an early night a couple of nights my only actual symptom was little itchy blisters like chicken pox.

I'm double vaxxed and I have been so poorly. I'm on day 16 post positive PCR now and I still feel ever so strange. It's like nothing I've ever felt before. I feel so detached from everything and I can't keep up with a simple conversation.

It just felt like a cold for me, the kids had a sore throat for about a day.

I hope nobody is reading this thread thinking the vaccines don't work! They absolutely do. If we didn't have the vaccines lots of people on this thread may have ended up in hospital or possibly not even still be here to comment.

Most people in hospital with covid right now are unvaccinated.

Both dh and I double vaxxed. Got covid. He had sinus headaches, tightness of chest, a cough. He was wiped out for two weeks but still got bits of work done and up and about not bed bound.

I got it, felt a bit wobbly one day like I was hungover, a mild headache, intermittent cough that sounded bad didnt feel too bad, lost sense of snell for 2 days. That's it.

Most people I know who got it pre vax either felt rough for 2 days like a flu or just headachy and tired. Nothing major.

I was very unwell with almost the full range of symptoms and had it not been the summer (teacher), I’d have been off work for 3 weeks. Having said all that, I never felt the need to consult a medical professional and I never had any breathing difficulties. So headaches, sore throat, loss of taste and smell, vomiting, diaorrea, temperature, excessive tiredness, ridiculously dry cough. It was horrible and hard to shake. I do feel now that I am struggling with stairs and longer walks, having to rest regularly. I do definitely feel it could have been a lot worse.

I caught it a week after second dose. Basically had no symptoms. dh had it at the same time as me and was tbe same. Less than 100% but if it weren't for having to isolate we would have just carried on with our lives.