Why am I so ill despite being fully vaccinated

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I have tested positive for Covid and I have never felt so ill. I do not have any underlying health conditions, so why do I feel so unwell if I have had all my vaccines?

Because vaccines don't stop you feeling ill, they reduce the severity of the infection?
If you weren't vaccinated you might be on a ventilator 🤷🏼‍♀️

Because despite what some people will tell you, it isn't just a sniffle for some people. It affects everyone differently and you don't know how it will affect you until it does.
We don't know long term effects either.

Have you had it before?

I hope you feel much better soon.

I was really sick too
And twice vaccinated
Means maybe we would have been even worse had we not been vaccinated

patience and rest and healing

I look at all the illnesses my children had: one had a scary spiking temperature a few times, another was ill with a bad sore throat once a month for the first year of school.

So must we have been as we faced all the viruses as kids. Now our immune systems aren't so agile and vaccines aren't as effective in an older immune system (apparently)
Give yourself time.

Sympathies. I had it a couple of weeks ago and was really taken by surprise by how bad I felt. DH was fine. I am so grateful to have been vaccinated. Rest and max strength lemsip

I was sure if DH and I got covid, we would get it bad and one of us would end up in hospital, but luckily although we had it quite bad we were fortunate not to need to go to hospital and for that I’m grateful to the vaccines. My DH due to medical conditions was seen at a medical assessment unit at our hospital, they checked him over assured him he would be fine and wouldn’t need to go to hospital. So this makes me wonder if still the majority of people needing hospital treatment are unvaccinated.

@CloseYourEyesAndSee

Because vaccines don't stop you feeling ill, they reduce the severity of the infection? If you weren't vaccinated you might be on a ventilator 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is such rubbish. I know several people unvaccinated who virtually had no symptoms, yet the ones vaccinated have been really sick. It's a lottery.

I had it last week
Fully vaccinated etc etc
No health issues
I fact known for having a strong constitution!!!
I felt terrible....even in tears because I felt so ill ....felt like this for about 4 days
I'm ok now
But the fatigue is real and my brain is shot !!

This is such rubbish. I know several people unvaccinated who virtually had no symptoms, yet the ones vaccinated have been really sick. It's a lottery.

It's literally not

I'm sorry that you feel so ill. I think it's hard to know on an individual level whether you'd have been just as ill not vaccinated. On a population level, it does tip the odds toward less hospitalisation etc...

I'm not vaccinated and I might have kept going, thinking it was just sinusitis if it weren't for having tested. We still know so little about how an individual will respond.

Hope you feel better soon.

I am also fully vaccinated (with booster) and I was incredibly ill for around 4-5 days. The first 2 days were absolutely awful and I have never felt so ill.

Like poster above, I’ve put it down to it being a brand new virus. My young son has been hospitalised with viruses that have gone to his chest, whilst I just breeze through the virus.

Pre vaccinations, this illness was killing thousands of people, many of them quite young with no pre-conditions. It’s a bastard virus.

Edit - some of them, not many.

I had it at the very end of January...... and now I have it again!
I have underlying conditions and am quite ill .... again.

Bloody hell!

I have been contacted about going on a special thingy testing and having stuff put in me ( I have brain fog ++++ but you know what I mean)

Me and two other family members had covid recently- the one who wasn’t vaccinated got it the most lightly and the one who was jabbed and boosted felt the worst. Never can tell- pro vaccines will say “well imagine how bad you’d be unvaccinated” and anti vaxxers will say it proves their point.

@CloseYourEyesAndSee

This is such rubbish. I know several people unvaccinated who virtually had no symptoms, yet the ones vaccinated have been really sick. It's a lottery.

It's literally not

So how come I am unvaccinated and had no symptoms. Yet my friend who is 5x jabbed is sick as a dog with it twice?

I was very ill with covid recently and still feel run down and with a cough that won’t go away 3 weeks later. I could not get out of bed for 2 days and for days later I had to sit down to rest after doing any sort of light activity. The last time I felt so sick was when I had meningitis. It’s a nasty nasty virus and not just a cold.
I wondered if I got it so bad because my booster was 6months prior and I’ve lost some immunity.

I supposedly have covid. I had a slight sore throat and mild runny nose, no other classic symptoms and I'm on day 8 and my lfts are still showing positive. The symptoms I did have went at the beginning of the week but even though I could still have a positive lft on Sunday, day 10 I can go into work on Monday. I've had all 3 vaccinations

This is such rubbish. I know several people unvaccinated who virtually had no symptoms, yet the ones vaccinated have been really sick. It's a lottery.

Of course it's not a lottery. All the evidence shows that being vaccinated offers a good deal of protection against serious illness and death. You really can't come to any useful conclusions from what happened to people you know 🤦‍♀️

@clarkkentsglasses what is it you imagine a sample of two people tells you in the face of data from billions, yes, in this case actually billions, of people that says something counter to your anecdote?

Triple vaccinated when I got Covid just before Christmas. This is the illest I have ever felt and I am only just starting to pick up from it now. However, I never felt at any point that I needed to be hospitalised and can only conclude that this was the 'mild' version. It makes me shudder to think what the unvaccinated version must be like.

@clarkkentsglasses 'So how come I am unvaccinated and had no symptoms. Yet my friend who is 5x jabbed is sick as a dog with it twice?'

Eh? 5x jabbed? Where did you get that from?

As far as I am aware: To be fully vaccinated, you had 2 jabs and then a booster (just before Xmas) so 3 jabs.

It's only very recently that the most vulnerable and elderly have been offered their next, spring booster. So that's 4 jabs.

Can you point me in the direction of information regarding 5 jabs?

If your friend has had 4 jabs then they are extremely vulnerable and/or elderly and it's not surprising they've been sick as a dog.

Because for some it’s a deadly virus. Lots of us have conditions but no idea we do. The vaccines may have saved your life.

Hope you feel better soon

Because everybody's response to the virus is different. It depends on- previous exposure to similar viruses, genetics, underlying conditions whether you know about them or not, body's response to the vaccine etc etc there's a lot going on. I had the virus pre any vaccines and was classed as clinically vulnerable- asymptomatic. My fully vaccinated and healthy boss of a similar age has now been off sick for nearly a fortnight with it. You don't know what's going to happen till you get it............get well soon.

It's like a lottery with two ball machines. Both contain asymptomatic cases, mild illness, serious illness and death. But one machine has more of the worse outcomes and fewer good.