I got my second vaccination yesterday!
Mar. 15th, 2021 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneA month ago Dave and I got our first. It was crazy crappy weather, major winter storm had moved into the area. They had been doing drive-up vaccinations, but because the weather was so bad, they had everyone coming inside.
Russet got her first shot a week ago, and yesterday Dave and I completed our cycle.
And while I'm thinking about it, you can register with the CDC's VSafe program and receive a daily text from them, polling you for any symptoms that you may be experiencing after your first or second shot. Contribute to the base of medical knowledge!
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html
And here's an article from The Atlantic talking about the differences in numbers between the vaccines. For example, if one vaccine says no one in the trial group went to the hospital, that's great news, right?! But what if you later heard that only three people in the placebo group required hospitalization? Changes your perspective on the efficacy a bit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson-vaccines-compared/618226/
But right now it boils down to the fact that we probably don't have a choice on which vaccine we're going to receive initially. I was advised to get the mRNA vaccine from my doc at the Nat'l Institutes of Health, and that's what I got.
And damn, do I feel like crap today!
According to that Atlantic article, the Moderna vaccine has a 15% chance of side-effects. And that's what I rolled. Ignoring the arm soreness, which I had for a couple of days after my first shot, I just feel like crap, perhaps like a mild grade flu? But I'm not running a fever. My temperature was mildly elevated, up to maybe 98.7, whereas I'm normally low 97s. Not enough to be concerned about.
But the bad part is one of the listed side-effects and a possible Covid symptom, and also a side-effect of taking antibiotics. Which I'm on. Again. For a repeat of the sinus infection that I had last month. My ENT just can't get it through his head to give me a 20 day course of the things to completely eliminate any bug that I may have. I was on Cipro for 10 days, I called them three times before they were set to expire, crickets. Now I'm on Amox-Clav. For some reason Cipro doesn't hit my lower gut in a distressing way at all, but the Amox-Clav most certainly does!
And that is a symptom of Covid! But, watching my Apple Watch, my heart rate variability is still nicely irregular - which is good! - so that's still nicely indicative of no Covid infection. I wrote earlier about smart watches that measure pulse frequently also tracking heart rate variability and that also being an indicator usually eight days before you become symptomatic for Covid.
So I'm leaving work early today to get a good nap in and hopefully a solid night's sleep in hope that I'll feel better tomorrow. Tuesday we have no student workers in, so it's just Emily and I, and Wednesday we only have one in from 3-5, so better that I leave early today than not show up tomorrow!
Russet got her first shot a week ago, and yesterday Dave and I completed our cycle.
And while I'm thinking about it, you can register with the CDC's VSafe program and receive a daily text from them, polling you for any symptoms that you may be experiencing after your first or second shot. Contribute to the base of medical knowledge!
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html
And here's an article from The Atlantic talking about the differences in numbers between the vaccines. For example, if one vaccine says no one in the trial group went to the hospital, that's great news, right?! But what if you later heard that only three people in the placebo group required hospitalization? Changes your perspective on the efficacy a bit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/pfizer-moderna-and-johnson-johnson-vaccines-compared/618226/
But right now it boils down to the fact that we probably don't have a choice on which vaccine we're going to receive initially. I was advised to get the mRNA vaccine from my doc at the Nat'l Institutes of Health, and that's what I got.
And damn, do I feel like crap today!
According to that Atlantic article, the Moderna vaccine has a 15% chance of side-effects. And that's what I rolled. Ignoring the arm soreness, which I had for a couple of days after my first shot, I just feel like crap, perhaps like a mild grade flu? But I'm not running a fever. My temperature was mildly elevated, up to maybe 98.7, whereas I'm normally low 97s. Not enough to be concerned about.
But the bad part is one of the listed side-effects and a possible Covid symptom, and also a side-effect of taking antibiotics. Which I'm on. Again. For a repeat of the sinus infection that I had last month. My ENT just can't get it through his head to give me a 20 day course of the things to completely eliminate any bug that I may have. I was on Cipro for 10 days, I called them three times before they were set to expire, crickets. Now I'm on Amox-Clav. For some reason Cipro doesn't hit my lower gut in a distressing way at all, but the Amox-Clav most certainly does!
And that is a symptom of Covid! But, watching my Apple Watch, my heart rate variability is still nicely irregular - which is good! - so that's still nicely indicative of no Covid infection. I wrote earlier about smart watches that measure pulse frequently also tracking heart rate variability and that also being an indicator usually eight days before you become symptomatic for Covid.
So I'm leaving work early today to get a good nap in and hopefully a solid night's sleep in hope that I'll feel better tomorrow. Tuesday we have no student workers in, so it's just Emily and I, and Wednesday we only have one in from 3-5, so better that I leave early today than not show up tomorrow!
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Date: 2021-03-16 02:52 am (UTC)Eh, reply lengths make for interesting reading. My wife and I think we may have been laboring under a misapprehension about vaccines, specifically for me and my condition. We were told that we were supposed to avoid "live" vaccines, such as the flu nasal spray, yellow fever, the previous shingles vaccine, etc. None of the Covid vaccines are live. Turns out we may have confused information that we were given, and that warning may have just been for the period between when I was diagnosed with my immune disorder and when I began antibody replacement therapy! She listened to a webcast from a bunch of immunology experts, and like you wrote about the Covid adenovirus vaccinations, apparently because I'm getting vaccinations from 10,000+ donors in every batch, that my body would likely eat it alive and the efficacy of live vaccines would be in doubt! As I said, I was told to get the mRNA vaccine, and specifically told to avoid the adenovirus vaccines, which at the time of the advice were not available. So we'll be having some questions for my immunologist when we see him next month, also for my NIH doc whenever we're able to go back to DC. I left work an hour early and slept for four hours straight! Still kinda tired and very hungry, there's food in the oven to address that. Hard to say if I'm running a fever. Tonight, and this morning, I got a reading near 99.3, but in four readings all the others were below 99. I hate erratic devices, so I'm not sure what to make of that. I'd feel better if it were next week and Dr. J, the library director, were on shift, but it isn't and Emily is. She's perfectly capable, but she's soooo young I just feel guilt about leaving her there alone the next two days if I don't feel functional.
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Date: 2021-03-16 08:13 pm (UTC)So long as she knows all the usual procedures, and nothing goes to hell unexpectedly, it'll probably be beneficial for her to run the place for a limited time. It builds confidence in an intern to prove to herself that's she's able to keep things running properly.