I had covid when I got the booster

[Jacky86]

Hi,
I got the booster on December 20th, later that day I found out I was a close contact. A positive came up immediately on LF followed by positive PCR 2 days later. Luckily I was asymptomatic and am coming towards the end of my isolation. I keep seeing that you can’t get the booster until 3 months after having covid ( that’s the guidelines where I’m based). Since it’s clear that I had covid when I received the booster what does that mean? Will it have an effect on my body? I can’t seem the to find why it has to be 3 months and I’m really worried. Anyone else in the sane boat?

It's 28 days from having covid you can get a booster. The reason for this is to ensure you're not still infectious and gives your body time to recover.

The 90 days thing is you are advised not to do a pcr test within 90 days as you may still have fragments of covid which will show a positive test of old infection.

My friend had covid when she had her booster (obviously didn't know at the time). No adverse effects and that was back in October.

@SummerLove2306

It's 28 days from having covid you can get a booster. The reason for this is to ensure you're not still infectious and gives your body time to recover.

The 90 days thing is you are advised not to do a pcr test within 90 days as you may still have fragments of covid which will show a positive test of old infection.

Sorry my source:

There is no evidence so far that having a vaccine after having had COVID-19 causes harm or makes the infection worse, it is just that the symptoms could become confused and wrongly attributed to the vaccine or the infection and this possibility is minimised if there is a 28-day gap.

www.devon.gov.uk/providerengagementnetwork/coronavirus-advice/vaccination-and-care-homes-frequently-asked-questions/

It is because of the danger of giving your body a "double whammy" of having Covid with bad symptoms plus dealing with the vaccine side effects. So if you were asymptomatic I think you will be fine.

Since your coming to the end of your isolation period and you are absolutely fine then I really wouldn’t worry. You body has been fine ‘fighting’ both covid and the vaccine.

However, some peoples bodies would be ok ‘fighting’ both. So really, the rule is there to stop peoples bodies becoming overwhelmed if they were to become either mildly/ severely ill.

Plus, if you were to become ill after having both at the same time, it would be harder (impossible?) to determine if it was the virus/ vaccine/ both which was making you mildly/ severely ill.

That’s reassuring, thanks!
It’s definitely 90 days where I am- I just read back on the text they sent me at the time inviting me for my vaccine, it said to ignore if I had covid in the last 90 days. Seems to be different rules in different places.
I’m feeling good though, just a little worried about long term damage. Thanks again for the reassurance.

I think the likelihood of Long Covid increases significantly if you've had bad symptoms, so a couple of my friends have got long Covid and both were really, really ill in March 2020 when they first got it. One needed to call out the paramedics twice for breathing difficulties, and the other was hospitalised and they thought she'd had a stroke.
And they both got long Covid.

However I think if you get Covid fairly mildly generally you won't get long Covid.

So if you were asymptomatic it's even less likely to be a problem getting long term issues.

There's no cast iron guarantees but anecdotally this seems to be the case.

The 28 days between covid vaccine and having covid was revised November time ish for the under 18's and was revised to 3 months. Not sure if it was done for the over 18's as well.

I would guess though that lots of people have had covid unknowingly and then had their vaccine