Covid Diaries

[profrobert]

So I got my first shot on Friday (Pfizer).  Finally, my co-morbidities are paying off for me!  Shot itself hurt not at all.  I had soreness, like a muscle soreness, over the weekend around the injection site on my right deltoid (my left hand is my button-mousing hand, so I picked my right side for the shot).  I was quite tired when I came home and

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[nonelvis]

Hooray! I'm so happy for you.

Even though you've had COVID, you had it a year ago, so that second shot couldn't hurt.

[profrobert]

Well, literally it could hurt. The research saying one shot for Covid recoverees is based on having antibodies from the illness, which I did as of my check-up in December. It would mean one is fully immune (or as fully as one can be) after shot No. 1. Shot No. 2 merely produces a substantial inflammatory response in the body, a lot more than my two days of highly localized muscle soreness I had. Still, I'm leaning now to doing it and hoping for the best.

[nonelvis]

Ah, I didn't realize you still had antibodies! Not everyone who had it does after so many months, or has enough of them to mean only one shot would work.

I agree that the second shot could suck. If it helps, I've seen the full range of responses to it (both Pfizer and Moderna) from my friends and family who have been vaxxed -- my mother just had a slight headache for an hour after her second shot, another friend was a bit sore, and a third had the full flu symptom fun 'n' games for a solid 24 hours. Hopefully you'll get lucky and have minimal issues.

(I am not eligible until likely April, assuming we have enough vaccine. MA's rollout is a complete shitshow, let's just say that.)