covid jab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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lokifanI had my first covid jab yesterday! And I’ve joined rydra_wong’s vaccination trial pyramid scheme, haha. I was actually booked for Saturday anyway (I’m 31 so my number just came up) but we like to contribute to medical science and they pay for travel.
It’s a new vaccine, Valneva, on its third stage. A pretty traditional deactivated-virus-particle vaccine, so it’s probably slightly less effective than mRNA, but that’s still REALLY effective. Control group gets AZ.
I’m getting the second jab in four weeks, too, so I’ll be fully vaccinated for most of the summer!!!!!!
I was so pleased last night because my arm didn’t even hurt, I thought I’d fully avoided side-effects, but between 2am and 6am I kept waking up with new symptoms (chills, malaise, tiredness, headache and muscle pains, fever). I was SO SWEATY from the fever, it was gross. Had a cool bath at like 7am which helped. Am now lying in bed feeling smushed.
I guess it means my immune system’s pretty strong, though! And apparently it’s usually over fast, so I’m hoping/expecting to be fine tomorrow. Anyway even on the three trains home from the clinic, I was sitting there like ‘hello person whose nose has escaped, hello person in next carriage who’s talking with no mask, soon I’ll care about you SO MUCH LESS.’ Like, obviously public health etc, but I’m not gonna lie, def less stressful when my personal risk’s almost zero.
Still, feel properly ill :((((
rydra_wong’s vaccination trial pyramid scheme, haha. I was actually booked for Saturday anyway (I’m 31 so my number just came up) but we like to contribute to medical science and they pay for travel.It’s a new vaccine, Valneva, on its third stage. A pretty traditional deactivated-virus-particle vaccine, so it’s probably slightly less effective than mRNA, but that’s still REALLY effective. Control group gets AZ.
I’m getting the second jab in four weeks, too, so I’ll be fully vaccinated for most of the summer!!!!!!
I was so pleased last night because my arm didn’t even hurt, I thought I’d fully avoided side-effects, but between 2am and 6am I kept waking up with new symptoms (chills, malaise, tiredness, headache and muscle pains, fever). I was SO SWEATY from the fever, it was gross. Had a cool bath at like 7am which helped. Am now lying in bed feeling smushed.
I guess it means my immune system’s pretty strong, though! And apparently it’s usually over fast, so I’m hoping/expecting to be fine tomorrow. Anyway even on the three trains home from the clinic, I was sitting there like ‘hello person whose nose has escaped, hello person in next carriage who’s talking with no mask, soon I’ll care about you SO MUCH LESS.’ Like, obviously public health etc, but I’m not gonna lie, def less stressful when my personal risk’s almost zero.
Still, feel properly ill :((((
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Date: 2021-06-14 01:51 pm (UTC)And thanks! They did pass fairly quickly - and I'm optimistic I won't feel much of anything the second time, since that seems to be what happens if you feel rough after #1.
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Date: 2021-06-02 08:08 pm (UTC)I totally feel this. It's so much more relaxing to be vaccinated around these people, even when I'm grr at them because public health.
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Date: 2021-06-14 04:29 pm (UTC)Seriously!!
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Date: 2021-06-02 08:22 pm (UTC)I got AZ, and the worst side effects were also the night afterwards.
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Date: 2021-06-02 08:28 pm (UTC)Excited to see we've passed the watershed where the default for the control group is to get vaccine rather than getting nothing! :)
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Date: 2021-06-15 10:10 am (UTC)I spoilt myself latterly, haha, by using the cash to buy myself a very pretty jumpsuit with waterlilies on it.
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