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Take it from me folks you don’t want to get long COVID. I’m still suffering sob, fatigue, and joint aches 8 months after my infection. Wear a mask, get the vaccine, and use social distancing. This virus is no joke.
I'd rather have short covid then.
 

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#MyAnecdotalTwoCents

I had Pfizer and didn't have any side effects from either shot, aside from a little aching at the side of injection when throwing my hands up like I just don't care.

Looking forward to getting the booster.
I can second this. No side effects from either Pfizer shot for me. I did a lot of driving around on the day I got my Pfizer booster shot (I got my flu shot on the same day, different arm.) It was about a perfect 72 degrees that day, I had neither my heater or air conditioner on in my car. At one point I felt too hot. That feeling lasted about 10 seconds. If you can call that a side effect, then I had a side effect from the booster.
 

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Since everyone seems to be doing it, my experience. I had Pfizer. First shot gave a sore arm and a headache. Second short was just the sore arm, but less so. Yet to get my booster.
 

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Pfizer. Sore arm. I went to the gym the next day and definitely felt weaker but not really to a degree I would have noticed otherwise. Second shot sore arm and that was it.
 

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I'll toss in my experience from this past weekend after getting a Moderna booster (and flu shot) on Saturday morning.

By the evening, I had a killer headache alongside chills, a small fever, and the expected sore arm. Felt truly awful until late Sunday evening, but I'm only feeling a slight twinge in my arm this morning. The usual over-the-counter painkillers helped with my symptoms.
 

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Pfizer
1st shot fine - sore arm
2st shot pretty rough - nearly passed out on a call, fever, flu, chills plague for 2-3 days then fine
Booster - thursday - around 24 hours of feeling like I had the flu, but just fever chills, bad sinus headache to the point that my teeth hurt. feel fine today, but my arm is still a little tender.

I wasnt in a big hurry to get the booster, but theres a surge in my home town and I gotta go back home for christmas so my step-mom was pestering me about it. I suffer from polyps and other asthma and sinus issues so I'm in the rare unfortunate category where its not really a genetic coin toss, covid unvaccinated would rip through me faster than vodka gello shots and cheesy gorditas crunches.

Man, I want this damned thing to be over with already.
 

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1st shot: nothing.
2nd shot: felt stiff that night, fine the next morning.
Booster: arm was sore for 3 days but otherwise fine
 

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Does it really matter?
1st Shot (Astra Zeneca): Came down with the chills about 10 hours after it as I was going to sleep. Gone by morning, no other effects.
2nd Shot (Astra Zeneca): Nothing.
Booster (Pfizer): Sore arm at injection site for about 24-48 hours.
 

Casual Shinji

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Pfizer:
1st shot - Sore arm, and a little drowzy in the evening.
2nd shot - Absolutely nothing.

I need to wait till January to make an appointment to get a booster shot, which means I probably won't be able to get one before Febuari, because everything in the Netherlands regarding Covid apparently needs to move at a snail's-fucking-pace.
 

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Actually having covid, May of 2020.

Noticed the Chicken Tortilla Soup I was eating started to have less and less taste with each bite. Panicked and called Urgent Care. Asked if I still had scent. At that point, I did, so she assured me that it might just be a sinus issue since I've had sinus issues in the past. Tried to calm down.
Next Morning, my smell was muted. Taste still gone. But the Nurse who I talked to at Urgent Care set up an appointment for a test. it took two days to tell me I had it.
That day, I had trouble walking upstairs. I felt dizzy and really tired.
From that point on, I felt really normal. My smell came back first (I love the smell of Listerine ever since, because that was the first smell that returned), and I could discern tastes a day after my smell returned.

Moderna
1st shot: sore arm for 3 days. But after that, absolutely nothing.
2nd shot: sore arm for 2 days. but after that. absolutely nothing.

Booster shot seven days ago: sore arm for a day. But after that. absolutely nothing.

Covid impact.

including my mother, grandmother, uncles, and various partners of family, friends, and co-workers, 19 people in my orbit have passed from Covid 19.

More recently was a co-worker's husband. They both thought Covid was not a big deal. I'm trying not to feel responsible. They are 17 years older than me, so all I could ever do was share my thoughts. I know at the end of the day anyone's choices as an adult are usually their own (my thoughts differ on that when their choices can affect others), but I actually feel horrible because I know how much it's affected others and I wish I could have done more. She's left the job.
 
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Baffle

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Moderna - currently a bit fuzzy-brained and slightly sore arm.

The lad who came out of the injection booth before me was easily 6'8". Amazingly quick-acting these boosters.
 
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TheMysteriousGX

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*Deep Sigh*

So, complaints about not being able to smell Yankee candles are on the rise again.

Because we have the collective memory of a goldfish on meth.