[EdFNJ]

For those getting their 2nd shot gather up the ibuprofen just in case! Got my 2nd around 10AM .Took about 7hrs and WHAM my head feels like it is going to explode! "They say" you usually get hit around 24hrs if you are going to have side effects so I was caught by surprise since I rarely ever get a headache. Wife has nothing (yet). Had ZERO side effects with first one.


That being said, if this is (hopefully) as bad as it gets it is worth every second of the inconvenience !


DO NOT TAKE PAIN MEDS BEFORE YOUR SHOT!

EDIT for datapoint: It was Moderna and I was fine by bedtime and fine this morning.

[Bjeanj]

Good to know. My second shot is next Wednesday.

[rjm1cc]

About 30 hours after 2nd shoot. Just like the first shoot. No problems.

[Kenswing]

My wife had the second shot in the afternoon. Next morning she had pretty bad joint pain and a headache. She said it felt like a bad flu. Later that day she was fine.

[tophcfa]

A good friend who is a health care worker got the second shot (moderna) and she felt like she had the flu and was exhausted for a day and a half. No problems with the first shot, and she now feels fine.

[Fredman]

We got our second shot on Monday and neither of us had any adverse reaction

[GOLFER54]

My wife got the second shot and as soon as she got home she insisted that we get naked and jump in the hot tub.

[RaunchyRich]

Take advantage of your wife not having a headache!

[Northerner52]

Which one? Moderna or Pfizer?

[Larry&Mary]

Thanks, getting ours this Saturday @ Publix. Will be glad to get it and will suffer through any complications.

[rlcooper70]

Moderna has side effects more often than Pfizer. We had none with the latter. Sorry about your headache. NOT supposed to take ibuprofen ..reduces the body's immune response to the vaccine.

[rmd2]

I am having my 2nd shot done on Wednesday but here is what happened on my first shot of Moderna. There was no problem with the vaccine BUT the shot itself was not properly placed and this is what happened to me: the first 24 hours I had extreme pain from my shoulder to my finger tips and that felt that way for the whole 24 hours. This was 4 weeks ago and I still have some pain in the arm when I move it and occasionally there is a nerve in my arm that runs down from the injection site to my hand and when that happens it is extreme pain and fans out into my hand and it feels like an electrical charge. This has gotten better. The person injecting me did not get it in the deltoid muscle but instead hit a nerve. It happens and I have since found evidence of this from medical journals, NIH, CDC and personal accounts but unfortunately didn't know this before my shot. I'm hoping nothing happens with the 2nd shot and I am having it in the other arm.

[Debra Freeman]

I am very interested in the responses Re 1st and 2nd shots. Those responding please tell me if both vaccines were from same company and which company. I think this is an important component to the reactions.

[Bob in Fishers]

Before the shot ok after

[Girlcopper]

[QUOTE=EdFNJ;1896970]For those getting their 2nd shot gather up the ibuprofen just in case! Got my 2nd around 10AM .Took about 7hrs and WHAM my head feels like it is going to explode! "They say" you usually get hit around 24hrs if you are going to have side effects so I was caught by surprise since I rarely ever get a headache. Wife has nothing (yet). Had ZERO side effects with first one.


That being said, if this is (hopefully) as bad as it gets it is worth every second of the inconvenience !
This isnt any different than the annual flu shots. Some have a reaction and some dont. I have 7 friends so far who have completed both shots and only one had very mild flu symptoms for less than 24 hrs. No big deal.