Had the latest booster a week ago and in bed since

[Fran2023]

I have had all the previous boosters, including combined with flu, with no problems at all. However, last week I had this year’s and within 24 hours was very unwell.
I feel like I have flu but without any respiratory symptoms (other than a slight dry cough). Aching, weak, intermittent fevers, no appetite, no energy, permanent headache (if I forget to take paracetamol regularly). I’m spending most of my time in bed, although I do try and get up every morning -important to make an effort. This is day 6 and no signs of getting better.
I feel shocking and genuinely wish I’d never had the booster.
Can anyone offer advice, suggestions, experience of anything similar? Should I just get up and try to battle it through? (I do have a couple of other serious chronic conditions: cardiac and breast cancer - but felt relatively well before the booster.)

Ride it out
Better to have vaccine than Covid or long Covid which is way crappier

Hope you get well soo

If you've got a dry cough you've probably just coincidentally got another virus. Hope you feel better soon.

I know a microbiologist who says jabs cannot give you symptoms unless they are live vaccines. Almost all are not. You would most likely have been ill anyway and your body is working hard to create immunity cells for both the illness and the vaccine. However your vaccine didn't cause this.

It's true. They will give you symptoms of your immune system revving up (sore arm, fever, headache etc), but not a cough as there is no virus in the vaccine.

I‘m not suggesting that the vaccination gave me COVID or any other virus! I know that they are not live viruses.

What I think, as explained by @Cookerhood is that they are symptoms of my immune system working hard. I think because of my pre-existing conditions the extra demands has floored me.

I had my booster yesterday afternoon and had to finish work early today and go to bed, very similar symptoms to the OP and I'm also have compromised immunity following treatment for breast cancer, it's absolutely knocked me flat.

I am immunosuppressed and my last booster in June floored me for 24 hours, I'm really not looking forward to the next one.
However it rather sounds to me that you coincidentally caught a virus at the same time.

Have you taken a covid test ? You could well have been infected prior to the booster

@pimplebum - covid wasn’t crappier in my case. I had it last month and just had a couple of days of headaches/aches and pains and tiredness and then I was fine.
@Fran2023 - I hope you are feeling much better now.

I hope you feel better but it does sound like you coincidentally caught something at the same time?

DH and I, and also a colleague, had this experience last year. It was COVID. Just an unfortunate coincidence.

That said, you could of course just be having a very strong immune response. I felt truly horrible for about a day after all my vaccines, but COVID itself was something else. Wiped me out for the best part of a month.

I'm getting a bit nervous about having my booster now, but it's booked and I'll go and hope for the best. I've had long covid which lasted 3 months and feeling groggy for a while is way better than that.

With one of my Covid boosters, I coincidentally caught Covid the day before (although didn't test positive until the day after). There's a lot of it around at the moment plus loads of other random viruses. I've felt run down since my Covid/flu jab last week but I've realised that I'm actually getting a cold.

PIL are the same at the moment. I suggested they test for covid and both are positive. I know lots of people with covid at the moment.

I was on a covid vaccine trial and I am up to 6 vaccines now. I have had this reaction every single vaccine I have had. I have refused anymore boosters as I honestly felt so ill and I couldn't take any more time off work because of it. My work have been amazing with me as they knew I had done the trial and my sickness didn't count towards any disciplinary for sickness but I was still worried about any more time off.

I hope you feel better soon, just ride it out in bed.