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Haven’t missed a single one. Got covid once, it felts like a weird cold that was mildly annoying, and over in about five days. There’s no telling how bad it might have been without the vaccine, so I always get my fluvid shots.
I never really got much reaction from any of the Covid shots, but with the last one I also got the shingles vaccine, and I'm pretty sure that one is what hit me hard for a few days. Beats getting shingles though, and if what I understand is true usually how your body reacts to a vaccine is just a mild version of what the real thing would be like.
my wife had that experience with her shingles. I don't remember it being that bad honestly. Im wondering if it will really last forever or if at some point they realize it needs to be reupped in 10 or 20 years.
Same. That is the only vaccine that laid me out.
The shingles vaccine made me exhausted and achy for days. I'm pretty tough and yet that one was difficult.
Still better than shingles. Get shingles in your eyes or your pusswatcha or your back and scream every time the wind blows, and you'll regret it.
Major correlation between Shingrex vaccinated and signficantly lower Alzheimer's incidence. Those who get all vaccines and maintain them over 65 have 1/3 lower incidence of Alzheimer disease. It's not any one virus, it's about not assualting the brain with reactive oxygen during an immune response due to infection.
We'll see Alzheimer's rates spike in the next decade thanks to RFK Jr types.
This is super interesting. Thank you, I didn't know.
my mom and bro had it around the eye, the mom look like f'up from all those blisters, but no lasting damage or vision problems, my bro had scarring in his sclera when he went to get checked for laser eye surgery, apparently you are not eliglbe for laser eye surgery if shingles has affected any part of your eye.
i heard shingles vaccine for 50+ almost always "knocks" people out. they have the shingrx which is the new vaccine that doesnt use the virus, you got that one?
I had shingles and it was quite unpleasant, had it at 20. shingles experience varies widely from person to person, although it seems the older you have it, the more severe it is. Also if it affects the face or head, or groin area it is considered severe., or it cause meningitis, or paralysis. i had permanent scarring and nerve damage on a "half-dollar coin" size rash, not as crazy looking as others. but i had noticed around the time the blisters appeared, my spine was very stiff along with back pain and that lasted a whole week which i think the shingles affected the spine too, thats about the time shingles blisters bursted on its own. plus the dreaded phn that people get, i had a mild version for a few years. i was not on any antivirals at the time, so i went through the whole thing.
it was induced by severe stress, which also triggered an autoimmune disease of the hair/follicles few months prior.
got the razor blade variant last month, started feeling ill on sunday tested with a somewhat older test, strong positive, then start feeling pain in the throat which got worst, and the fever lasted 3 days, plus the sore throat intensified to throat pain and irritation, razor blade stage. then bizarrely started just hawking mucus and coughing up white phelgm every few minutes which turned yellow and slightly brown as the days went on, for days on end(no eating or drinking because swallowing was too painful, and swollen). the previous vaccine seems to be little effect on this variant.
i was looking at the back of my throat the whole time, there was a strange white film over it.
Jesus fuck I’d heard of this variant. I have no idea if whatever vaccine variant I just got would have helped, And though it seemed to have helped two years ago, the only real vaccine I use is being a recluse. I seriously doubt most people are taking covid seriously anymore, and that’s scary. Covid isn’t flu, and covid is still quite new. With having no way to speak of what the razor blade variant was like, I’m at least glad you don’t seem to have gotten Long Covid. I’m glad you’re well enough to have replied to me, and wish you very well, friend.
Yes, my case was basically a stuffy nose and nothing more, because I frantically jam needles into myself anytime someone will give me one.
However, the first week of March 2020 before lockdown I had the very faintest whiff of a cold, like it would be something I'd ignore in normal times. Employee health kicked me out for four days. I wonder if I got a subclinical case of alpha COVID and that's given me more protection. The only person that I know who got alpha COVID before vaccines is the person who has never gotten it again.