Correlation between reaction to jab and how badly you get Covid?

[dogrilla]

Wondering whether there is any correlation between how you reacted to the vaccination and how bad your symptoms were if you got Covid? I felt really ill and grim after the jab but actual Covid bounced off me (same as DH). Friends who didn't feel a thing after jab seem to have had a tougher time and felt properly ill with the virus. Obviously it's all totally anecdotal in my sample size of a few people, but interested to see if anyone else has experienced similar (or not at all).

Would make sense.

I had no reactions to the jab and very mild Covid.

It would make sense to me. More reaction to the jab would suggest a bigger immune response? Therefore more immunity to Covid? I’m not a scientist though..

DH was hospitalised with Covid and had an awful reaction to his AZ jab. He slept for a whole day. DD 19 had covid very mildly but felt terrible after her Moderna jabs.

Covid was mild for me and and I had no problems after my Pfizer jabs.

I was v ill after first AZ jab, ok with second one. Pretty rough with covid this week though!

DH had pericarditis with his jab - I had not really any symptoms. Both feel like we've been hit by a bus with Covid.

There isn’t one

Quite ill with first AZ (in bed for few days), second was fine. COVID has hit me like a bus this week.

I've been on a similar thread and Purple is right.

I was interested as I barely reacted to my AZ jabs, yet Covid forced me into bed for days and 4 weeks later I'm still not right...

I can’t answer that OP but I do remember reading an article that said your reaction/symptoms from the vaccine did not correlate to any better or worse immune response i.e. a big reaction to the vaccine did not mean a better immune response/more antibodies.

@PurpleDaisies

There isn’t one

This.

Early on in the vaccine rollout, people were asking if bad side effects meant they would have had bad Covid.
There is no way to tell. You get it and find out.

Ok - makes sense i suppose. Being driven mad by the boredom of isolation and overthinking everything

@bumblefeline

DH was hospitalised with Covid and had an awful reaction to his AZ jab. He slept for a whole day. DD 19 had covid very mildly but felt terrible after her Moderna jabs.

Covid was mild for me and and I had no problems after my Pfizer jabs.

Sleeping for a whole day is absolutely not an "awful reaction" to a jab!!!!!

I felt horrendous after my jab. Joint pain, nausea, hot and cold. I had my first and dh tested positive 10 days later. I didn’t get covid!

No reaction to either Pfizer jab (although had the ubiquitous sore arm).

Had Covid quite badly, but not hospital badly. A month later, I'm still not back to full health.

It makes sense to my monkey brain but I’ve no idea how you’d go about proving that in any formal sense. When you start considering all the variables (and factoring the ones only those with scientific knowledge are probably likely to consider) alongside the fact we’re still not entirely sure why people react so differently to covid and the vaccines.

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I had AZ jab, very ill for 48 hours immediately afterwards, severe vomiting, bad headache, shakes etc.

I got Covid two weeks ago and couldn't get out of bed for 10 days, I've never felt so ill. Just left with tiredness now.

Just like Covid itself, there doesn't seem to be a pattern of who reacts badly 🤷‍♀️.

I had zero reaction to the AZ jab. Not even a sore arm.

I’ve had Covid this week and got off pretty lightly I think. One bad night with a temperature and then just a heavy cold. Feeling better day on day - all that’s really left now - day 6 - is no sense of taste/smell & being a bit tired.

So much of it is subjective too though. I was just chatting to a colleague who’s also had Covid this week - she was telling me how terribly ill she’s been & yet was describing symptoms basically the same as mine. But I don’t think I’ve done too badly out of it.