DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Everything Else... COVID-19 vaccine

Port I'm getting my 2nd Moderna shot this Thursday. I expect to get a little reaction.

I don’t know your age but the reactions tend to be stronger the younger you are. I’m 48. I had a pretty strong reaction. My mom is 74. She only had a mild headache. My immune system is stronger than hers partly because of that age gap. Hence my body mounted a bigger defense.

I'm 63 Portland.

You fall into the lesser side effects camp. Doesn’t mean you won’t have them. Just means they’re statistically likely to be less.

Tks, good info. When todays 9:45a second dose kicks in I'll know more of the what's, where's, when's, and why's, etc.

My parents both had covid back in late October. They also, 4-6 weeks ago, had the moderna shots.

They are 79 and didn't deal with much other than tiredness and a little soreness. Nothing much. And, the tiredness is an everyday thing for them anyway.

Got my 2nd Pfizer shot today and been a couple hours, so far so good.

How're you feeling now? My experience (minimal as it was) is it took 12+ hours to find out how it would hit me.

Arm is a little sore, other than that I'm good.

Glad to hear it. I hope I'm as lucky tomorrow when I get my 2nd Moderna shot.

U.S. begins study assessing allergic reactions to Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines
PUBLISHED WED, APR 7 202111:04 AM EDT

EDTUPDATED WED, APR 7 20211:40 PM EDT
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

The NIH said it has begun looking at why some people have suffered from allergic reactions after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

The NIH study will enroll 3,400 adults ages 18 to 69 at up to 35 academic allergy-research centers nationwide.

Most of the rare, severe allergic reactions to these vaccines have occurred in people with a history of allergies, public health officials have said.

The National Institutes of Health said Wednesday it has begun looking at why some people have suffered from severe allergic reactions shortly after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

“The public understandably has been concerned about reports of rare, severe allergic reactions to the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the NIH, said in a statement.

“The information gathered during this trial will help doctors advise people who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder about the risks and benefits of receiving these two vaccines. However, for most people, the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination far outweigh the risks,” he said. Some people with ‘long Covid’ say their symptoms ease after getting vaccine.

Medical experts say allergic reactions from vaccines are rare but can sometimes happen. Most of the rare, severe allergic reactions to the vaccines have occurred in people with a history of allergies, public health officials have said. An immediate allergic reaction usually happens within 4 hours of getting vaccinated and may include symptoms such as hives, swelling and wheezing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC said in January allergic reactions are occurring at a rate of 11.1 per 1 million vaccinations for the Pfizer shot and 2.5 per 1 million for the Moderna shot.

The NIH study will enroll 3,400 adults ages 18 to 69 at up to 35 academic allergy-research centers nationwide, the agency said. Participants will be divided into groups and be assigned at random to receive either the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the Moderna vaccine, a placebo followed by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or a placebo followed by the Moderna vaccine.

Alkis Togias, chief of the NIAID’s allergy, asthma and airway biology branch, told CNBC in December that researchers at the U.S. agency became interested in the rare phenomenon after reports that a few people had reactions to Pfizer’s vaccine that qualified as anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.

The CDC has been asking health-care providers to monitor patients for 15 minutes after vaccination and 30 minutes for those who have a history of allergic reactions.

If someone has a severe allergic reaction after getting the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, the CDC recommends that they do not get the second dose of that vaccine, even if the allergic reaction was not severe enough to require emergency care.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/07/covid-va...erna-shots.html

Just received my 2nd Moderna shot. I was informed of any side effects I may have and how long I could have them.

j/c...

I was able to get my first shot today (Moderna). What a relief.

Finally got an appointment. Next Thursday I get the J&J. I have to travel a bit to get it, but get it I will.

To echo cfrs15, what a relief.

How far from PDX do you have to go?

Just an FYI,, Got my second shot on Tuesday of this week.. I kept waiting for all the problems to occur.. NOTHING. No problems at all... I feel fine..

That means you're old, lol. Glad you joined the club of the innoculated.

Interestingly I get tested for COVID weekly for work. A quick finger poke for a drop of blood. It tests for both COVID and blood antigens (antibodies created as an immune response from either the vaccine or a COVID infection.). My antigen levels are high. Meaning my vaccine worked. On the other hand one of my vaccinated coworkers has no antigens. She’s a little freaked out.
We’re now wondering if/when she should seek getting another vaccine. We’re not really finding solid answers.

Pretty interesting that your tests are different given the same vaccine. Even if you question the accuracy of the test, having it done weekly should take care of that.

I'm a bit confused as to what tests they're doing on you. Antigens are foreign substances that provoke an immune response. Wouldn't a negative antigen test mean the vaccine is working? Are they doing separate antibody testing?

Got my 2nd Moderna shot yesterday morning. Went to work last night was sore and achy. Came home went right to bed. This morning still sore and achy but not too bad. Took some tylenol and ibuprofen. Head was a little stuffy and nose was running. Overall not too bad.

I get a blood test. My results come back negative for COVID, and IgM negative/IgG positive.

Addendum: I shouldn’t have used the word antigen. Antibodies is the correct word. To my defense I wrote that post at like 6am while still laying in bed.

My son Edwin, 22 years old, got his first Moderna vaccine today at Rite-Aid in Bowling Green. So happy I was able to schedule this for him!

Old Florida dog here, our state was wild west for a short while,
Canadians, rich South Americans getting shots before Americans, most Floridians did right thing, isolated, masked, etc....our first signup on internet exploded, not good, it got fixed and going to Publix, other "normal" spots seems to work, we offer Floridians age 16 older shots now. Spring break had all the nut young here....hope we don't explode again or cause outbreaks with "kids" going home.....be smart and safe. Go Browns!!!

I know the virus is exploding in a lot of the Blue states right now.

Not very far my friend, just St. Helens. A friend went to Lebanon (city, not country, lol) and my boss went to Salem.

We'll see though, with the news of J&J having to cut production...I wonder if I'll get it.

This may be a week or so old because I have been working a lot.
26 states have had recent increases but around 45% of all new cases were from 5 states:

New York and New Jersey (which in my mind is essentially the same given the number of people who live in NJ but work in NY.)

Michigan
Pennsylvania
Florida

Hope opening up more doesn't cause more outbreaks. My wife and I are old, 73/68 we had no side effects- she had sore arm, me nothing. Go Browns!!!

In Colorado, they switched 24,000 J&J appointments this weekend to pfizer/moderna.

It’s been something I’ve been tracking. I’m flying to Philly a week from tomorrow to set up a piece of public art... across the river in New Jersey. Two states on the high alert list.
Thankfully I’m vaccinated. My creative partner isn’t though. Our other crewman has only had his first Pfizer jab. I picked up some KN95s for all of us for the flight. We’ll be staying at an AirBnB together. It’ll be the first time any of us will be maskless around each other in over a year. There’s only so much avoidance of each other’s air when you’re sharing the same indoor air for a week. So staying healthy on the flight there, at minimum, is key to each other’s health.

I hope so as well, and we are in the same ballpark as far as age.

In the end, what is opening too soon? If you can have that, you can have opening late.

I don't know that anybody has the perfect answer. There probably is no perfect answer. I do know that if we are to remain a free and open society, we need to open back up.

If that means the average ages drop by a decade, then that is what it is. It's that or live in a bubble, and I wouldn't want to do that.

If you and I are the last generation to realistically expect to live in to their 80's, I feel bad about that, but what are you going to do? Things change.

So somehow we would be a less free society if we waited two or three months to open up?

Actually, the amount of unprecedented research and money that have been spent on fighting this virus are going to do wonders going forward for our health. We are finding out things that wouldn’t have been discovered for years. Terrible events also bring great findings, it’s been that way for centuries.

I know you like to prognosticate the future based on your own feelings, but you need to actually take a look around and not just just make things up in your own mind. Good times are ahead in regards to physical health. Now if we would just put in the same effort for mental health.

Absolutely. 60 Minutes had an interesting segment tonight on that research.

Drudge report has an article today from a paper called The Times of Israel that based on a small sample study, the South African variant is able to "break through" the Pfizer vaccine or bypassing the shot.

You are closer to it than I. I hope you are right.

I didn't say that, thank-you.

Great. (not)

Old I am,, Happy to be part of the club...LOL

That's why it was a question and not a statement. I notice you didn't answer it.