My wife and I had our second shots this Wednesday. We had mild pain at the injection site with the first shot but had a greater reaction with our second shot, which appears to be normal. I got tiredness, low grade fever and other flu like symptoms within 6 hours and stayed home and watched TV for a day and a half. That wasn’t pleasant but well worth it to now be resistant to COVID. My wife was OK first 24 hours and then it hit her and she retreated to bed. Same symptoms as I had just more delayed. The good news is that if you have a good immune system you actually may see more side effects. That is why younger people may get more side effects than older people from the vaccine. Normally our immune system becomes compromised as we age unless we do aggressive physical activities such as walking and bicycling. (I bicycle over 100 miles a week and my wife fast walks over 25 miles a week. We are both in our mid seventies.) Bottom line for us is we had some limited flu like side effects but we are so happy to have had our second shots and hopefully we are building a good immunity to COVID.
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