Hi other mums ☺
Im based in Nz and we have covid kicking off here. I had my first pfizer vaccine and on day 5 got some weird burning chest pain i had to be seen my a dr and all was clear. As im approaching my second shot I am seeing so many stories around the second shot and im completely terrified.
Can anyone offer any advice?
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My husband and I had no symptoms after our second.
I am fully vaccinations and had no symptoms apart from a bit of a sore arm. I know lots of people who have had pfizer and none have had issues. I've heard the "friends cousins wives brother had it and had this bad side effect" stories but I take those with a grain of salt
I felt like absolute shit after my second dose, like I was on the brink of the worst flu imaginable.
I had the sweats, the fever, the chills, the body aches, the headache, the sore lymph nodes - the works!
(My injection arm also felt like Mike Tyson had gone to town on it 😂).
But you know know what? I'm still glad I had it done despite unluckily getting all the crappy side effects. After a couple of days of rest, I felt as good as new!
In the scheme of things, it was a small price to pay for protection against a virus that has quite literally ravaged the whole world.
I felt unwell after the first shot, the 2nd I had a much better recovery from, just a sore arm.
My friend had hers the exact same days as me. She has no symptoms first time, but second one she was unwell.
Everyone I know who's had it has some form of sickness with either the first or second shot, never both. I had nothing with my first (except a sore arm) and then got a bit fluey feeling 3 days after the second. I was fine in 24 hrs. My partner was the opposite - manflu with the first, nothing the second.
I was better after my second and so was everyone know.
My brother got clots after his second pfizer, as did a close friend. Both went to their lungs BUT it was an easy, quick trip to hospital with injections and then blood thinners and ever since, they've been fine :) it was a short term side effect and nothing long lasting.
Other family members and friends have all been fine except for a sore arm.