My wife and I and our two adult children received our second Moderna dose today, and our 16 year old received his first vaccine. It's a vaccination day at our house! I couldn't be happier. It's a surreal feeling. It's shaping up to be an epic week. A murderer was convicted, Apple released some cool new products (ok fine - maybe their just multi-colored crap - but it is still fun to nerd out about), vaccines today, Ted Lasso Season 2 trailer dropped, two friends got promotions, another friend just found a job he's stoked about, and I had a meeting with the former president of my company and found out she LOVES me and wants to bring me with her wherever she lands... which is a good feeling to have. I know that there is still some darkness out there in the world... but today I'm feeling a lot of light and a lot of gratitude.
How are you all feeling now a day later? I felt not great around 12-36 hours after my second shot and a few more days to really feel 100%.
Oooof. Was great for the first 20 hours. So vaccine Wednesday at 1pm and fine the rest of the day. Felt pretty good when I woke up, good enough even to go into the office. That devolved into kind of a foggy, groggy afternoon, which by the evening, turned into an achy 101F temp. I had read that ibuprofen (my go to) isn’t the best solution for this, since the immune response is, an inflammatory response, so to take an anti-inflammatory is to potentially lessen the immune response. In my foggy brain, it took a while to realize we don’t have any Acetaminophen in the house, so a quick trip to the drug store got us sorted out. Felt meh until I went to sleep. Woke up Friday morning and I could tell I had sweat all night, but I felt about 95%. By Friday night I felt 100% but tired. All in all - nothing terrible. Just foggy brain, followed by a fever and chills. But I’d take it every year if it means not catching Covid. 10/10 would recommend, and also would recommend just planning to chill the second day.
That's about my experience, too! I started to feel it at 12 hours, and 12 to 36 was the worst. My recommendations are similar: get shots. Also, drink water. A friend said I'd be thirsty, and I was. Get shots, drink water, and keep wearing masks. Wisconsin is seeing declining cases again, so yay!