On 30-03-2021 13:23, Michael Chare wrote:
On 30/03/2021 12:52, Steve Walker wrote:
On 30/03/2021 12:34, Algernon Goss-Custard wrote:
Scion posted
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:44:02 +0100, T i m wrote:

One for the medical people ... As more and more people take the jab I
was wondering if there are any stats that cover what sort of reaction
they may have to one and why that might be?

eg. We both had the AZ jab (she's had both now) and neither of us had
any reaction at all.

In contrast, a mate, his Mrs and their friend all had theirs and all
three suffered ranging reactions from headaches, overall aching to
nausea etc?


My wife and I both had the AZ vaccine in February, hers coming first
by a couple of weeks. She had no adverse reaction whatever. I was
fine on the day I had it, but during the following night I woke up
several times with an extremely dry mouth. In the morning I had
headache, nausea, general malaise, very like a bad hangover. Also I
felt unable to keep warm and had to go to bed. This lasted until the
evening.

It was unlikely to be psychological because (a) I was not expecting
any reaction, having seen none in my wife; (b) I had had a flu jab a
few weeks before and had no reaction then (so no needle-phobia); and
(c) several of our friends have had the same reaction, some worse,
some less bad.

There's always the chance that they actually caught Covid a short while
before having the jab and the 'reaction to the vaccine' was Covid
symptoms.

No, the vaccine side-effect symptoms were entirely different. And
also they disappeared completely by the following day, which a
symptomatic Covid infection would not have done.

Short term effects like that may not be nice, but they are a perfectly
normal response to many vaccines and do no real harm. Well worth it
for knowing that you now have at least some protection.

I am booked in for my first jab on Thursday. I hope I have no
reaction, but if I do feel ill, I've got the long weekend to recover.

You may well get a stringer reaction to a 2nd dose.

I think the Pfizer is more powerful because I've had both vaccines (I am
clinically highly vulnerable) and the Pfizer gave me more side effects
than the Astra Zeneca.