Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

On a completely non scientific sample the side effects seem to be worse in
men,

Its actually the reverse when measured properly.

Most likely due to lower body mass.

unless of course men just moan more.

That’s only with you poms. You arent
called whinging poms for nothing.

"T i m" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:49:50 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:

On 30/03/2021 11:44, 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.


ZOE has the statistics which ISTR are about 20% notice something on the
first jab and a slightly higher proportion on the second jab.

Ah, ok, so not feeling any side effects is by far the most common.

Females
typically more prone to side effects (due to lower blood volume and a
stronger immune reponse according to my tame biochemist).

Ok (handy thing to have in such times). ;-)

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/vacci...eady-had-covid

They have some quite good seminars from time to time.

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 was knocked sideways by it the day after.

Oh. ;-(

I just felt a bit
lethargic for a day.

I have days like that anyway so couldn't put it down to the Covid jab.
;-)

Slightly sore shoulder (as in couldn't lie on it
for one night) after 2 days

Ah. Mine was noticeable but only if you poked it (Doctor: Don't poke
it then). ;-)

and that was about it.

Ok, thanks.

As I understand it, the vaccine (most vaccines) start building our own
antibodies by exposing them to an inactive version of the target virus
(profile?) in readiness for the real / active virus and it's likely
that it's that load on our bodies that causes some of these reactions?

It is the initial response to the challenge of alien proteins. The mRNA
vaccines being slightly different to the AZ one which uses

... ?

snip

The most common symptom is slightly swollen lymph nodes nearest to the
vaccination point. Most people won't even notice though.

Yeah, we tend not to notice stuff if it doesn't become apparent on
it's own or doesn't hurt, and may only find it if we actually look for
it.

Whilst I don't have a particularly high threshold of pain (unlike the
Mrs, just as well considering her medical history) I can often endure
levels of discomfort that would send others up the wall. Like, I've
actually lost a padded shoe insole on a walk, meaning it must have
worked it's way out of the std position and everything in between
coming out of my shoe and me not noticing ... or maybe noticing but
ignoring etc.

I think it was something similar that caused me to get a 'Pyogenic
granuloma' under my heel that they suggest could have been caused by
some 'trauma', like walking some miles with a stone in my shoe ... ;-(

Cheers, T i m