How long do you feel grim for if in 50s and double vaxed?

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Bit surprised at how shit I feel. Day 2. Hideous cough and aching all over.

Same op - I am 51- last vaccine sas in May. My son tested positive on Friday I started with symptoms yesterday high temp, cough, headache and breathlessness /pain on chest. Did pcr last night. Lat flows all negative.

If b is not covid it's flu.

Day 8 (I think)
still significantly poorly

2nd vaccine early June - goodness knows how ill I'd have been without!

This worries me! Does the jab just not work well for some people?

I’m starting to wonder what the point was of the jabs I feel so shit. 2 pos LFT and a pos PCR so there is no doubt. Day 2- it’s going to be a long week!

@WholeClassKeptIn

This worries me! Does the jab just not work well for some people?

It significantly reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death, but since Delta came along it unfortunately doesn't work so well against symptoms.

I am so grateful for the jabs

I cant imagine how much worse I would have been without them

I was terrified of ending up in hospital before

Ah. I’m normally tough as old boots. Can’t believe how ill this is making me feel. Would it really have been worse? I never thought I’d be in the hospitalisation category. It’s the banging head and cough that are the worst. Do the jabs offer protection to others? My Dh’s PCR came back neg. I must have caught it at school where I work.

Maybe see it more that if you are this unwell with the vaccine you might have been intubated on ICU if you hadn’t had it. Everyone experiences the disease to a different extent so other people’s disease course doesn’t make much of a difference to yours.

@WholeClassKeptIn

This worries me! Does the jab just not work well for some people?

What do you mean by not work well? There's no way to tell how an indivdual would have been affecte if they hadn't had the vaccine (Know that's a statement of the obvious). Clearly vaccines in general do what they are designed to do but you can't predict your ownreaction

From my own anecdata peopleI know have been not ill at all to stuck in bed for two weeks, from everything I read that seems tbe one thing that hasn't changed sincedat 1

But I normally keep going and shake off colds and flu. Working in a school you get used to them and having to plod on. With this I couldn’t if my job depended on it. Bit shocking I coukd have been worse.Wonder if my jabs have protected my dh.

As one of my friends who caught COVID after having both injections said.
I feel absolutely awful, hopefully the injections stopped it being worse, but that’s something we’ll never actually know the answer to either way.

It did make me wonder

It took me two weeks to get out of bed and then a further week to get moving and start building strength. I am walking the dog now but I still get breathless. I have been referred to the chest clinic.

I never had a cough but was very breathless, had a three week headache and swollen joints and a rash. No taste or smell. I am 50 and usually fit- able to run 10km.

If you work in a school you've been exposed to masses of viruses, which is why you've developed immunity to them. Covid is a novel virus, so you haven't been exposed as much and it will therefore likely hit you harder.

Eventually it will very likely become like all the other respiratory viruses, though a serious one for the elderly and already unwell. The population as a whole will have been exposed to it so many times. That isn't the case yet.

Could be effectiveness of vaccine waning.

It's a nasty virus. I am mid forties was super fit, an exercise freak and I got it before the jabs and was not back to my normal self for a year.

Seems to depend a lot on utter randomness! I have several friends in their 50s who are double vaxxed, but had/got Covid. The majority seem to feel rubbish for about 3 days and then take around a month to feel fully normal again, but a few have felt rubbish for up to 2 weeks and then taken longer to get back to full health.

Most people I know (40s and 50s) have just had bad colds but all double vaccinated.

50s, double vaxxed and still in bed at 8 days. Starting to feel more human and so grateful to have been protected from worse.

I'm on Day 14 (57, double vaccinated). I'm still coughing, breathless and light headed. I'm certainly better than I was a couple of days ago, but still unwell. Not eating much, and can't smell or taste anything.

Bil is 52 and is still feeling shit 12 days later, sorry

Budget on feeling very shit for 10 days and quite reasonable at the 14 day mark. I’m 40s, double jabbed and suffered with it for 10-12 days and now feel a lot better (day 16).

The media is making people think that double jabbed means you get a little cold and will be fine. The reality is you really suffer with horrible symptoms (headache from hell, tiredness such that you can’t stand up). And that may not be all. I was shocked at the level of my suffering (40s) and my dh suffered almost identically.

I wonder if it’s different dependent on vaccine - AZ v Pfizer? Hope you feel better soon OP.

@Djifunrsn

Budget on feeling very shit for 10 days and quite reasonable at the 14 day mark. I’m 40s, double jabbed and suffered with it for 10-12 days and now feel a lot better (day 16).

Sadly not true for me. I haven't had any headaches though.

Severity of disease also depends on viral dose - which is something scientists learned early on in the pandemic (and which is common with other illnesses too) and which the government have conveniently forgotten in their rush to make schools covid infection hubs.

If you've been in a school, you likely were exposed to high levels of the virus so got a high dose, so therefore are more ill. It's shit, and the fact there are no co2 monitors or hepa filters in schools is a dereliction of their duty to protect the health of their staff. I hope you feel better soon.