7and 8 yr olds getting it soon. Posts here are reassuring. I was worried I would just have 2 miserable kids for a few days.
whole house will be vaxxed soon.
I still need to get a flu shot before xmas. Everyone worried about covid, but Flu is really crappy to have too.
Yep my daughter tested positive for flu B over the weekend. She hasn’t had flu in about 10 years (and she’s only 22).
At what age do kids basically fully develop immune systems? I was under the impression that the stronger your immune system the worse you will feel after the mRNA vaccines. Not til like teenage years?
I thought they corrected that a bit by giving younger people a smaller dose.
Booster Monday previous Friday morning. ER this past Friday night.
ETA: corrected misinformation about the timing
Oh man, that sucks. 
Yeah, they’re not positive that my friend’s case is Moderna-related either, but that is their most likely diagnosis.
I hope your son is doing better soon.
I did get a rash as part of my “COVID arm” from Pfizer #2, but it was on the upper arm where I got injected. It wasn’t at the injection site, but basically 3-8 inches all around it. It itched a little, but nothing out of the ordinary.
My advice for intense itching? Try putting ice packs on the areas of intense itching. That has helped me when I got a bad case of poison ivy, way more than predisone and lotions.
That doesn’t sound like the booster was the trigger. Allergic reactions usually happen fairly quickly.
It sounds pretty awful, though, whatever it is.
Kids actually have a much more potent immune system than adults. They need it, because they don’t have acquired immunity to much, yet. But their immune systems react differently from adult immune systems.
The switch-over for which vaccine is recommended (child or adult) is 12. But if I had to guess, I would guess “puberty”.
Got my booster (Moderna). Pain in my arm for a few days. Did not once feel ill or need to sleep for a few hours, as I did with my second Pfizer.
Just hoping that Omicron passes over us, killing only those who did not mark their doors (metaphor for getting vaccinated).
She had symptoms well before going to the ER. She said lymph pain and swelling with 24 hours, and then a rash 4 days after that.
Also I’m wrong… she got the booster the prior Friday. (Corrected my post that you responded to.)
So it was a full week from booster to ER, but the symptoms started pretty quickly and got progressively worse.
Today is day 10.
Oh, yeah, that’s different. And it really does sound horrible.
While my rash sounds very different than whatever she has, it started almost a week after my shot and lasted about a week. The CDC website says a rash that starts a few days to over a week post injection is typical for COVID arm. FWIW I didn’t have this (yet) from the booster, and don’t think I will
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/allergic-reaction.html
Yeah slightly different then my son. His time line was shot Friday. Sore for a few days and felt real bad Saturday. Was mostly better by Sunday then seemed fully Ok on Monday. Then following Monday broke out in hives, face puffed up, itchy all over and some difficulty breathing. Due to the time lag and the fact that he seemed fine for a week we don’t think it’s booster related but can’t rule it out based on timing.
His most likely theory is that is was related to live Christmas wreath his company sent him since he had the reaction the day after he hung it on his door but things like that have never bothered him in the past.
He was on Prednisone and Benadryl but doctor switched him to Claritin and Hydrocortisone cream twice a day for 5 days, then once day for 5 days after. cold compress towels seem to help most with the itching and calamine lotion seems to help some as well. We also got Benadryl cream but haven’t used that yet.
Well her rash started 4 days after, so not radically different than a week, but less, certainly.
Agree onset of rash post injection is similar; I was speaking more about severity and distribution of the rash as being very different.
And another doctor’s theory for why Omicron could seem “more mild” than prior variants:
(Source: https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1468988174693289994?s=20)
I’m suspecting the second doctor is right – yeah, there are a ton of cases in South Africa without a ton of hospitalizations. But we also know there are a ton of cases among people who already had covid, and presumably have some immunity.
There are also more kids in the hospital than ever before in South Africa. Maybe they are just being monitored or something, but it makes me anxious.
I expect we’ll know a lot more in a week or so, though.
my wife had lymph node swelling and rashes about 10 days after Moderna. lasted about a week or so and she was fine, but lymph node swelling in women apparently is pretty lame and also scary since its also a sign of breast cancer.
