Recording for posterity, I guess

[starlady]

I got a booster shot yesterday afternoon--Moderna, when I'd gotten Pfizer for my first two jabs. I was expecting the side effects to be worse even though the Moderna booster is a half dose (50mcg as opposed to 100), and I was right, but thankfully though they aren't fun they aren't too bad so far. Arm pain at the site, woke me up at 6am when my ibuprofen wore off, but I took some more and was able to go back to sleep. Muscle/joint aches from when I woke up and a very mild fever, which I think broke around dinnertime and has perhaps ticked up again slightly. I planned to take it easy and spent chunks of time horizontal in bed and that seemed to make it possible to get up and do a few things in the between times. Hopefully tomorrow this will be over with; I'm going to bed very shortly to try to facilitate that. Thanks daylight savings!

In all seriousness, I was practically dancing my way out of the pharmacy after my 15 minutes' observation were up, and I couldn't help but do a fist pump as well. Not sure when I'll have this kind of uncomplicated yay feeling again; I wasn't really expecting it. But it was nice.

Anyway, I am not a doctor but if you're over 16 I do recommend getting a booster--looking at data from other countries and listening to Fauci's comments (to say nothing of the plateau in cases that may presage a fifth wave) it seems clear that the U.S. vaccine regimen will be upped to three shots eventually. Personally I wasn't willing to wait for the FDA's weirdly conservative vaccine committee to decide that decreasing breakthrough infections is worth the risk of "increased uncertainty" when their inaction constitutes a direct risk to my health (and when California is discarding more than half a million vaccine doses unused). It's a pandemic! We're all used to uncertainty at this point. But now, about this, I have a lot less.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Yay! And agreed, I think a formalization of three shots will come.

[oracne]

I'm scheduled for Friday, Moderna on top of Moderna.

[starlady]

Yay!!

[starlady]

Yeah, it's pretty clear when you look at the data from Israel and other places that have done boosters. And J&J should be upped to a two-shot regimen too, probably. In any case, I am almost fully recovered today (thermoregulation still a bit wonky, feel a bit tired) and I'm very glad to have gotten it done.

[larryhammer]

I got my booster Saturday, two hours after Eaglet got their first dose -- in my case, Pfizer like my first two, because that's what I could readily find appointments for. I also spent a day tired, achy, and possibly with a low-grade fever. It was ... only kinda yucky, unlike the 3-hour flu I got with my second shot.

[cynthia1960]

I'm getting my third shot tomorrow, and I'm staying with Moderna (it's what Kaiser is saying when I booked my appointment). I have a feeling that we're going to see boosters every 6 months or so eventually, and I'm good with that.

[starlady]

Yay booster! I got Moderna because that's what the CVS a block from Cheeseboard has, and I wanted to get Cheeseboard afterward.

[starlady]

Yay for both of you! For the most part I've heard that people's third dose side effects have been less than the second, except for my roommate who had a high fever for nearly four days. I sort of wonder if she somehow got a full dose instead of the booster half-size.