Coronavax experiences?

[Carsten Kurz]

My wife, aged 54, had no issues at all after her first shot of Biontech/Pfizer, but was knocked out for nearly two days after the second one with muscle pain and fatigue. Luckily, she received the second shot on a friday and could recover over the weekend. My father, age 81, had no issues at all after both shots of the same vaccine. This all seems to be within expectations and individual variation they say. These reactions especially to the second shot seem to be indications of an expected and desired effect of the immune system. So my father without any reaction should be more worried than my wife ;-)

[Steve Guttag]

I had shot #1 of Pfizer on Tuesday of this week. My only symptom was a sore arm that grew in intensity and probably peaking around 3-4 hours after the shot. It did not stop me from lifting anything and, in fact, I was working on Dolby DSS200 servers that day (multiples, trying to test and/or revive them...all successful) so schlepping heavy objects were fine. However, lifting that arm above my head was "uncomfortable" and would intensify the pain. I would equate the pain to if someone punched you in your arm at that spot but minus the bruise.

Day-2, the intensity of the pain was probably 25-50%, depending on when in the day it was. I knew it was there but definitely less. By the following day it ranged from little to no soreness.

I don't recall any sensation of having a temperature (I didn't measure but I'm at a point in my life where my temperature is normally somewhere in the low to mid 97s (F)...when I was younger I was at 98.6F or pretty close to. Due to C19, my temperature has been checked a LOT in the past 12 months. The weather here in the Middle-Atlantic is such that hot-n-cold would be tuff to tell because the outside temps are anywhere to just above freezing to well into the 70F range on any given hour/day. So, your body is experiencing a range of temps both indoors and outdoors (indoors we haven't switched to A/C yet so it might very well be hotter indoors than normal. At no time have I felt Ill.

[Leo Enticknap]

Had my first shot (of Pfizer) at 10.22am this morning. Was perfectly OK after the 15-minute cautionary wait, and drove home (47 miles / 62 minutes). 2h17m after the shot, felt a hot flush and hands shaking, significant enough to check the time and make a mental note of it. Half an hour later, joint and muscle ache all over. Kinda intermediate and persistent: enough to make it unpleasant to negotiate stairs or lift anything, but not enough that I have to lie in bed and feel sorry for myself. It's now 12h22 after the shot, and the joint and muscle pain has backed off to mild. I'd guess it was at its peak about 6h after the shot.

My wife (who had Moderna) experienced zero side effects after shot 1, but had severe fever, nausea and fatigue after shot 2 (onset about 12 hours after the injection), such that she was laid up for two days afterwards.

Interested to hear of others' experiences.