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I will say if you get the Moderna, that second shot is seriously painful. We had a pretty universal pain in the arm followed by chills followed by hot flashes

I will say if you get the Moderna, that second shot is seriously painful. We had a pretty universal pain in the arm followed by chills followed by hot flashes then a day of feeling like you are walking through water. It was two days of crud. If you have a choice get Pfizer instead. The people taking that don't seem to suffer.

dnautics 6y ago
I'm all for anecdotes, but the side effect rate for moderna is known. And I know several people who have gotten it and no one has complained of side effects.
- protomyth 6y ago
  I'm just saying be prepared because they hit hard if it happens. As hanche said, staggering the shots is a good idea.
yokaze 6y ago
I've to counter your anecdata with mine. It's the same with Pfizer. Second shot can create adverse reactions. I know people who got flue-like symptoms (headache, muscular pain, increased temperature) for a day. Amongst doctors it is very common. Prior exposure to covid-19 is suspected to be a contributing factor. Still, it's better than the alternative: not being immunised and a possible patient/transmission vector.
- felipellrocha 6y ago
  I've heard mixed reviews from both vaccines. I suspect it's the underlying disease. You either get it or you barely feel it right? Anecdotal as fuck, but it seems to me it's the same with the vaccines, and if that's the case, if you had a bad reaction to the vaccine, you probably would've had a bad reaction if you had contracted the disease. Count yourself lucky.
  - phnofive 6y ago
    You mean you suspect it’s like the underlying disease? Maybe you’ll have a serious and uncomfortable immune response, but since the vaccine can’t proliferate, it will be a relatively brief one at even seventy-two hours.
bsder 6y ago
I also know people who reacted exactly backwards. The first shot was terrible and the second shot barely noticeable. However, as someone who got Covid, I wish I could have had the opportunity to skip 2 weeks of misery and months of recovery in return for 2-3 days of a reaction.
hanche 6y ago
Our hospital here in Trondheim, Norway did mass vaccinate about one-third of their employees in one day (Astra-Zeneca, I believe). In the next couple of days, the number on sick leave was nearly high enough to be a serious problem. They have now learned to stagger their vaccinations a bit more. Nothing dramatic in that, but the side effects are quite real for enough people.
phnofive 6y ago
In yet another failure of messaging from public health authorities, individuals such as yourself are surprised by the intense but entirely normal immune response to an antigen your body was just trained to fight. There is a reasonable question about the necessity of that second dose, however.

dnautics 6y ago

I'm all for anecdotes, but the side effect rate for moderna is known. And I know several people who have gotten it and no one has complained of side effects.

protomyth 6y ago
I'm just saying be prepared because they hit hard if it happens. As hanche said, staggering the shots is a good idea.

yokaze 6y ago

I've to counter your anecdata with mine. It's the same with Pfizer. Second shot can create adverse reactions. I know people who got flue-like symptoms (headache, muscular pain, increased temperature) for a day. Amongst doctors it is very common. Prior exposure to covid-19 is suspected to be a contributing factor. Still, it's better than the alternative: not being immunised and a possible patient/transmission vector.

felipellrocha 6y ago
I've heard mixed reviews from both vaccines. I suspect it's the underlying disease. You either get it or you barely feel it right? Anecdotal as fuck, but it seems to me it's the same with the vaccines, and if that's the case, if you had a bad reaction to the vaccine, you probably would've had a bad reaction if you had contracted the disease. Count yourself lucky.
- phnofive 6y ago
  You mean you suspect it’s like the underlying disease? Maybe you’ll have a serious and uncomfortable immune response, but since the vaccine can’t proliferate, it will be a relatively brief one at even seventy-two hours.

bsder 6y ago

I also know people who reacted exactly backwards. The first shot was terrible and the second shot barely noticeable. However, as someone who got Covid, I wish I could have had the opportunity to skip 2 weeks of misery and months of recovery in return for 2-3 days of a reaction.

hanche 6y ago

Our hospital here in Trondheim, Norway did mass vaccinate about one-third of their employees in one day (Astra-Zeneca, I believe). In the next couple of days, the number on sick leave was nearly high enough to be a serious problem. They have now learned to stagger their vaccinations a bit more. Nothing dramatic in that, but the side effects are quite real for enough people.

phnofive 6y ago

In yet another failure of messaging from public health authorities, individuals such as yourself are surprised by the intense but entirely normal immune response to an antigen your body was just trained to fight. There is a reasonable question about the necessity of that second dose, however.