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The side effects you get is your body immune system fighting an intruder. The reason why second shot is typically worse is because your body already produced an
by takeda 5y ago
The side effects you get is your body immune system fighting an intruder. The reason why second shot is typically worse is because your body already produced antibodies so when you get 2nd shot it immediately goes into attack mode.
BTW: different people have different immune systems, and their body reacts differently. I got my first dose in the morning. By afternoon I just felt tired and wanted sleep (I felt like I didn't sleep the previous night). I went to sleep and next day felt normal. For 2nd dose the same thing happened, except I felt like that one extra day. My vaccine was Pfizer.
- csunbird 5y agoI had exactly the same reaction to the first dose, except I had muscle pain in the vaccinated arm for 3 days. Everyone says the second dose is worse although.
- mywittyname 5y agoMine wasn't. I had some very mild soreness at the shot site. I felt well enough to go to the gym 5 hours after my shot. Not to detract from people who did have side-effects, merely pointing out that it's possible to have none.
- tzs 5y agoThe only definite side effect I had was a sore arm after each Moderna dose. I was actually happy that I had at least some side effect after the second dose because until then I wasn't actually sure that I had really been given the shot. The nurse was a talker, and distracted me from watching what she was doing. I didn't see the shot go in, and I felt absolutely nothing. I only realized it was done when she said I did not bleed at all and didn't need a bandage. Every other shot I've ever received I felt, but every other one I was also watching when it happened. Now I'm wondering if feeling them was imaginary, something my brain made up because I saw the jab and expected to feel it.