Why such massive side effect overreaction after each jab?😢

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

Everyone else in my family skips around like spring lambs after their vaccines.

Me; 1st AZ, ill for a week, aches, pains, exhaustion, vomiting
2 nd AZ. Same except only lasted 4 days
Moderna booster. As AZ 1 but including severe nausea, stomach pains and total exhaustion.

I’m fed up😕

It's weird isn't it?

I was poorly for a week after my first AZ. DH had his at exactly the same time and had a bit of a headache for a few hours.
We were both fine after the second.

Just had a Pfizer booster and again, really quite under the weather for 3 days. DH felt a bit achey the day after.

Is it a man/woman thing?

I had all this and, long story short, turned out to be a moderate allergy to something in the vaccine, not the vaccine itself, a preservative or something. Always got it with the flu jab. For second dose (AZ) and booster (Pfizer) I took an antihistamine 1 hour before the vaccine on medical advice and had virtually no symptoms - slight sore arm.

First AZ and every flu jab used to have massive, swollen sore arm, couldn't sleep on it for over a week, headaches, pressure behind eyes, nausea etc. I now assume that was allergy symptoms or some sort of cumulative effect of my immune system responding to the vaccine and the allergic symptoms.

But l take an anti histamine everyday anyway!😢

It’s just the luck of the draw. I had no side effects after the covid jab, not even a sore arm. Beginning to wonder if I was given a placebo😆joke!
I felt awful after the flu jab however (admittedly only for four hours, but still!)
Hope you feel better soon, take some paracetamol?

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Is it a man/woman thing?

Definitely not!

So side effects for me at all with AZ, not even sore time.

Mild tiredness for a day with a sore arm with Pfizer booster

People are just different.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

But l take an anti histamine everyday anyway!😢

You are likely in the people who would have had a bad time with covid if you already had an immune system that over responded / you take antihistamines already. My view is the people who react badly to the jab are the ones who covid would have meant hospitalisation. I am one of them and happy my weeks worth of post covid jab I’ll was better than hospital

No problems at all with flu jab.

Yes, I’ve had to take Cocodamol as paraceatamol didn’t really do anything, still feel sick now 3 days later!

Had the flu jab and felt totally exhausted for 48n hours afterwards. A friend (man in his early 40s) had exactly the same.

My Pfizer knocked me out with feeling ill, swollen lymph nodes for 8 weeks after, etc. Doctor said it was not linked to the vaccine (as if she knew.....).

I feel your pain. My original vaccine was Pfizer, had Moderna booster 2ndays ago, and I'm currently lying in bed feeling very sorry for myself.

I have muscle pain, stomach ache and sore eyes. My husband thinks I'm a wimp as he was fine after his booster.

Maybe you have a very responsive immune system! I felt ill for 24 hours after the first AstraZeneca vaccine, fine after the second jab but just had the Moderna booster and side effects started about 5 hours after - feel awful 24 hours later (nausea, exhaustion, foggy brain and my lips feel numb). Flu jab was fine - no symptoms at all.

Is a responsive immune system a good thing?!

Don't know but I'm trying to tell myself that it is!!! It's the nausea that's horrible and exhaustion.

I felt utterly wasted after both my AZ jabs- after the first one I felt so ill I thought I might die. I had electric shock type pains that made me cry out and gave me sort of mini seizures each time they happened. High temp, weakness, aches and couldn’t use the jabbed arm for days.
Second one was bad but not as bad as the first.
I am dreading any booster.

Same here - reacted badly to both Pfizer’s and fainted after second one too which was embarrassing. Also had Covid and long Covid in 2020 - but feeling really good at the moment. Dreading another booster, not eligible yet. Have not opted to pay for flu jab either.
My DH who is meant to be CV didn’t get Covid from us, no reactions to all 3 vaccines. It is a weird virus. My 2 boys and I got it plus long Covid. My DH and girls nothing - must be genetic somehow.
On call doctor also said she reckons I would be the type to react badly to Covid and should always have the booster etc once offered. I am not so sure. I have been around people with Covid recently and didn’t get anything. However, if I need boosters to travel/work I will get them and stay in bed for days!

I am exactly the same as you. I was on the Novavax vaccine trial. 1st vaccine no problems, 2nd one hit me for 6 for 2 days and then went away. Last Saturday I had the first of my 2 Pfizer jabs and I have been ill ever since. Don't think I have ever been this ill for so long. I don't know if I will go for the 2nd Pfizer! I can't be this ill again.

I looked up responsive immune system. It seems that you can have a system that is over response (allergies etc). Which is exactly what I’ve got, l also get millions of side effects from any drug l take.

Sorry for all you people struggling, Had mine on Monday midday and dfibslly feeling better, although tummy pain and nausea is still lingering.

Yesterday l couldn’t even sort laundry,

Incognito22333 was having Covid similar to vaccine side effects?

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Is a responsive immune system a good thing?!

it is when you're trying to stimulate a response with a vaccination.

I've got a few autoimmune disorders and had absolutely no reaction to either covid or flu vaccination. Makes me wonder if I even made antibodies to either.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow- yes, vaccine side effects were very similar for me to actual Covid but in some ways vaccine side effects were more intense and much shorter lived. Covid just dragged on for ages and the fatigue lasted months. Actual Covid seemed to have a stop start for me as well.
I don’t have any allergies or auto immune issues so the whole thing was very strange!

I had Pfizer 1st sore arm, 2nd bad cold, booster Jesus it’s been awful. Flu like symptoms for 6 days and 2 weeks on I still have little sense of smell and taste unless it’s right up my nose I have no idea what the item smells like. Great when LO was vomiting I could clean up great as I couldn’t smell the sick!

Because you are Better than others, and special, and wouldn't want a whole entire thread devoted to you undergoing the banal business of having a Covid jab, oh no

It's odd isn't it. I wonder if it's blood type, diet, general health.
Me and DS had no problems but DD had a temp for 24hrs. Me and DS are much healthier than her though .

I don’t want to be special though! It’s a pita! 😁. I want to be like Dh who had a ‘slight’ headache. Or DS who went out and got drunk after his with no ill effects.