Have you gotten a COVID vaccine?

[DLgal]

I thought I read that delaying mammograms for several weeks after vaccination is recommended so there is no confusion about lymph node swelling being from vaccination vs. disease since ultrasound or mammography can’t tell if a lymph node is reactive vs, neoplastic (unless there is another mass present).

Yeah, she has to wait another month. Her second shot was about a month ago. But the lump appeared last week, so the doctor is unsure if it's related. She did develop swollen lymph nodes under her arm about a week after the first shot. She got the Moderna series.

 

[SM1992]

Getting my 2nd shot tomorrow, only a sore arm from the first so keeping fingers crossed that this will be similar. DW gets her first on Wednesday.

 

[DLgal]

I wouldn't worry for another few days, but if you get to the 15 day point, and you still feel the same way, I'd head to the doc and get your bloodwork checked out. Just to make sure that your body's immune reaction necessary to integrate the vaccine didn't uncover anything pre-existing in your bloodwork that you didn't notice til you had to "fight something off".

I recently got sick with a virus about a month ago and was able to knock that out in about 3 days, and felt fine afterwards. I had all my annual blood work less than 6 months ago and all was well.

 

[Nabas]

Got my first Pfizer shot today!!! Yay!!!

 

[penn19]

I was looking forward to getting my vaccine. I checked the cdc website today and it states over 2,000 people have died since December after getting a vaccine. Is it just a coincidence? Now I just don’t know.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I was looking forward to getting my vaccine. I checked the cdc website today and it states over 2,000 people have died since December after getting a vaccine. Is it just a coincidence? Now I just don’t know.

Read further down on that. They say so far none have been tied definitively to the vaccine. They’ve been reported to VAERS, which is a self reporting website and honestly, not something I’d believe too much. Not that vaccine injury isn’t a thing; just the way the website & reporting works.

https://vaers.hhs.gov/about.html


The FULL statement on the CDC website. The bolding is theirs. And important.

 

[GAN]

I was looking forward to getting my vaccine. I checked the cdc website today and it states over 2,000 people have died since December after getting a vaccine. Is it just a coincidence? Now I just don’t know.

Do you generally have bad luck? I mean ...that's .0018%. I just got my 1st shot today, I'm 58. I believe if you dig deeper into that number you'll find that over 50% of the deaths were from shots administered to folks in Long Term Care Facilities -so they already had some health concerns. If it helps, the current variant(B117) is more contagious and more deadly ...so in my mind the shot is much safer than Covid itself. I have a friend that was sick for 2-weeks and got over it, now he is suffering from Vertigo and the room spins every time he gets up and down ..and he is 57 in perfect physical health. But everyone has their right to do with their body what they like. I introduced Pfizer's little friend to my body a few hours ago and I feel fine.

 

[JLTraveling]

I had a "guard' who wouldn't let us out of the area before checking our card against the clock!!

They did it brilliantly at the hospital-run drive-through site I went through. The vax nurse wrote the time you could leave on a big blue card on your dashboard. Then you joined one of two lines of cars waiting at the parking lot exit monitored by a nurse and a cop. When the correct time came up for the car at the front of the line, the nurse asked if everyone was okay and let them go. And every car moved up one spot. By the time we got to the front, it was one minute before time to leave, so even if we'd made a break for it, it wouldn't have done much good lol.

 

[penn19]

Do you generally have bad luck? I mean ...that's .0018%. I just got my 1st shot today, I'm 58. I believe if you dig deeper into that number you'll find that over 50% of the deaths were from shots administered to folks in Long Term Care Facilities -so they already had some health concerns. If it helps, the current variant(B117) is more contagious and more deadly ...so in my mind the shot is much safer than Covid itself. I have a friend that was sick for 2-weeks and got over it, now he is suffering from Vertigo and the room spins every time he gets up and down ..and he is 57 in perfect physical health. But everyone has their right to do with their body what they like. I introduced Pfizer's little friend to my body a few hours ago and I feel fine.

Thanks! Makes me feel a bit better. I saw the numbers and I was a little taken aback.

 

[disney-inspired]

They did it brilliantly at the hospital-run drive-through site I went through. The vax nurse wrote the time you could leave on a big blue card on your dashboard. Then you joined one of two lines of cars waiting at the parking lot exit monitored by a nurse and a cop. When the correct time came up for the car at the front of the line, the nurse asked if everyone was okay and let them go. And every car moved up one spot. By the time we got to the front, it was one minute before time to leave, so even if we'd made a break for it, it wouldn't have done much good lol.

That's how they did it ours, too. This vaccination site was using the parking lot of Six Flags Magic Mountain so there was plenty of space for us. Next one is next week!

 

[DLgal]

Thanks! Makes me feel a bit better. I saw the numbers and I was a little taken aback.

That number probably lines up, statistically, with how many people would have died anyway. The fact that so many millions of doses have been given with no large scale alarming incidents is very reassuring.

 

[GAN]

Thanks! Makes me feel a bit better. I saw the numbers and I was a little taken aback.

I get your apprehension -I think a lot of us have the same concern. Ultimately, 500,000 have died and the only way to stop the spread and stronger mutations, is for as many people as possible to get vaccinated(and continue with CDC protocols) ..my personal feeling is we owe that to our society. And yes -a small group of people will have potentially deadly reactions to it, which is a sad fact.

 

[TwoMisfits]

I recently got sick with a virus about a month ago and was able to knock that out in about 3 days, and felt fine afterwards. I had all my annual blood work less than 6 months ago and all was well.

Blood work can change rapidly - my family has experience with that. When my mom had kidney failure and ended up being diagnosed with stage 4 multiple myeloma, we were all floored b/c 3 months earlier, her blood work was 100% fine.

So, I always encourage caution when it comes to semi-unexplained symptoms. You had the vaccine, so some semi-long term fatigue would be normal...but if it keeps lengthening, it might be something...the something might be as simple as still working through the vaccine or anemia, but I'd hate for you to miss something more. My mom would have had WAY more treatment options (and probably lived longer) if the 1st "warning symptoms" had been taken seriously by her docs (she presented with back pain, and got sent home with no blood tests and some meds and told to return in 2 weeks, and those 2 weeks were crucial)...

And blood cancer never ran in our family...

 

[SarahC97]

I had my first Pfizer vaccine last Friday. I'm so glad to be on my way to full vaccination!!

 

[izzy]

Hey ladies, have any of you experienced any other swollen lymph nodes (besides under the arm) post vaccine?

Yep. I had my second Pfizer last Wednesday in my right arm. Woke up to some soreness and tenderness in my right breast today that has lasted most of the day. It’s better now, but I think it’s moved on to sides of my lower back. There are lymph nodes all over your body, so I’m guessing the tenderness in my back is also related to the shot.

 

[DLgal]

Blood work can change rapidly - my family has experience with that. When my mom had kidney failure and ended up being diagnosed with stage 4 multiple myeloma, we were all floored b/c 3 months earlier, her blood work was 100% fine.

So, I always encourage caution when it comes to semi-unexplained symptoms. You had the vaccine, so some semi-long term fatigue would be normal...but if it keeps lengthening, it might be something...the something might be as simple as still working through the vaccine or anemia, but I'd hate for you to miss something more. My mom would have had WAY more treatment options (and probably lived longer) if the 1st "warning symptoms" had been taken seriously by her docs (she presented with back pain, and got sent home with no blood tests and some meds and told to return in 2 weeks, and those 2 weeks were crucial)...

And blood cancer never ran in our family...

This is a good point. I will definitely contact my doctor if this doesn't resolve. It's a weird feeling. If I get up and move around and stay active, I can do it. But whenever I sit down, I get overcome by fatigue and just want to go to sleep.

 

[TwoMisfits]

This is a good point. I will definitely contact my doctor if this doesn't resolve. It's a weird feeling. If I get up and move around and stay active, I can do it. But whenever I sit down, I get overcome by fatigue and just want to go to sleep.
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Do you have a blood pressure monitor? It could be possible your pressure is getting really low (and when you're moving, you are keeping it high enough to function normally)...that would be the easy answer and an uber-easy thing to check.

 

[NWOhiogal]

Got my first Moderna shot on March 19; going for my second on April 16. Full immunity on April 30!

 

[DLgal]

Do you have a blood pressure monitor? It could be possible your pressure is getting really low (and when you're moving, you are keeping it high enough to function normally)...that would be the easy answer and an uber-easy thing to check.

I don't have a BP monitor. But good thing to think about checking. My BP tends to run on the low end of normal.

 

[Figment of Speech]

I got my first Moderna dose today! I did it first thing in the morning, and it's now almost bedtime, and so far all I have is a sore arm.

I'm in group 5, so I was getting antsy to become eligible. My partner works in a hospital and got hers way back in January. I live in North Carolina, which will be opening up eligibility to all adults on April 7, but before that was announced, a handful of counties did it early. One of those happens to be a rural county adjacent to my mostly urban/suburban one, so I started checking vaccine finder sites and that county's resources about a week ago. It took four days of consistent refreshing on three or four different sites, since appointments pretty much evaporate within minutes of appearing, but on Friday I landed my appointment, at a Walgreens about 40 minutes away in that neighboring county.

The whole process was very easy and straightforward. I had to wait about half an hour for them to get to me after my appointment time, but there were never more than three people in the waiting area.

If anyone is still trying to get appointments in their area — and I've spoken to a couple of friends in other states recently who are — the key word is "persistence." Don't wait to be called by a waitlist, especially if you're way down the eligibility list like I was. Just find the relevant sites for your area and refresh them frequently. Once I learned that Walgreens had about 95% of the pharmacy doses in my area, I created an account (to make signup faster when I got to it) and focused on refreshing the page hourly. Good luck!