So unwell after vaccines. 19 weeks.

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Evening

I had an appt at my hospital yesterday and whilst there they offered me the flu and whooping cough vaccines. I’m 19 weeks. I’m very pro vaccine so accepted the offer.

today I am feeling dreadful. I know I don’t respond well to vaccines (was unwell for 4 months post covid one and 2 months post booster) but I’m surprised at how unwell I feel. I think it’s the flu one as the whooping cough one never made me feel like this with my other pregnancies. I genuinely feel like I’ve got flu even though I know they don’t inject live flu virus. Paracetamol is doing absolutely nothing to help with the pain.

my entire body is aching, everything is ‘bright’ like aura as if I’ve got a migraine. My back pain is magnified. It’s incredibly intense and I’m not one to usually stop when I feel ill, I just get on with it.

At what point should I start taking these aftermath symptoms more seriously and contact the GP?

thanks

The side effects last ‘a few days’ for whooping cough, so I’d expect to feel better around day 4 at the latest. Flu vaccines side effects usually last just a couple of days. Having no side effects from the whooping cough vaccine last time don’t guarantee no side effects another time unfortunately.
It takes a couple of weeks for immunity to develop for the flu vaccine, and you could actually have developed something that you were already exposed to, there are a lot of colds and Covid around atm, in which case you could speak to a pharmacist to see what they recommend to ease symptoms. I hope you feel better soon

This is really helpful, thank you so much. I also have a little boy and we’re at playgroups every day so the thing about perhaps having had exposure to a virus beforehand actually makes sense. Thank you ☺️ x