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How do you feel after getting a vaccine?

brookegurradExpert
Transplant Patient
November 10, 2022 in General

Before COVID, I got my yearly flu shot and felt mild symptoms.


Today I got flu & bivalent COVID booster and feel like I’ve been hit by a truck.

I usually bounce back pretty fast so I’m not worried.

I’m curious about what y’all have felt after vaccines and how long symptoms lasted.

Do you ever think it has to do with how immune suppressed we are at the time? Or if we are building antibodies to COVID vs not really building immunity?

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  • ShelbycreatesTransplant Patient

    I felt a little rough for a day or two after my COVID shot. Flu shots are hit or miss. Sometimes I don’t even feel a difference and other times I’m super exhausted for a few days and it feels like I’m trying to swim through cement.

    November 10, 2022
  • brookegurradExpert
    Transplant Patient

    Wait.. you don’t feel like you’re swimming through cement all the time? 😂 Kidding.

    Vaccines are so strange. Also, my arms are so sore today.

    November 10, 2022
  • AliEm14Expert
    Transplant Patient

    This last covid vaccine I got I had no side effects. All of my other covid vaccines I felt like I'd been hit by a truck for a few days.

    November 10, 2022
  • brookegurradExpert
    Transplant Patient

    Why does everything feel so complicated and unreliable 😩?

    November 10, 2022
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