omicron. I just tested positive on December 26, 2022, so less than a month ago.
i didn’t test again until 6 days later, but when i tested again, i was negative. i might have been negative prior to 6 days, but didn’t test because based on what i had heard from others, i didn’t expect to be negative so quickly.
We each make our own risk/benefit assessments and live with the results. I still think I made the right decision for me.
to be clear, the 2 or 3 days sucked a lot. but then it just got better.
I’m glad to hear that.
i’ve had on and off chronic fatigue for over a year now, so i was terrified that covid would throw me right back into that. it didn’t though. that fatigue just lasted 2 or 3 days and was only when i had a fever.
my chronic fatigue issues haven’t come back yet, but if/when they do, i can definitively say it wasn’t covid.
well it sounds like neither of us have long-term issues from it, so it’s just a matter of shaving a few days off the symptoms for me and nbd for either.
long-term issues were my biggest fear.
Was the CF onset prior or subsequent to your Covid shots? Please understand that I’m NOT making any claims here. The Pfizer trial data includes a long list of known possible side effects, but I don’t know if CF is on that list.
yes, it was after my covid shots, but the timing wasn’t close enough to my covid shots to blame it on that. I got the J&J shot on March 13, 2021. My first possible bout with fatigue was the beginning of June, 2021, but that only lasted a day, so I’m not sure that counts. A much longer bout that lasted for 6 weeks and was definitely something to note happened right after labor day weekend, 2021, so that was almost 6 months after I got the vaccine. Then it was on and off for months at a time after that. First booster was November, 2021 when I think I had finally started feeling better from that bout of fatigue in September. I think it came back in maybe February, 2022. Next booster was September, 2022. I think I did have the fatigue soon after that one, but too many bouts of fatigue that weren’t even close to a covid shot that I can’t blame it on the vaccine at all.
I went to many many doctors, none of whom could diagnose me. The only possible maybe rationale for it was that I was found to be the lowest level positive on an EBV blood test in October, 2022. So if chronic EBV is a thing, then maybe that’s what I have. That seems strange. I got retested a month later and it was negative. The positive was very low level positive. It’s strange to be positive at all though at my age and my doctor was floored by that result. She was an allergist though and just did that on a fluke. Said I should see an infectious disease specialist if it comes back and should retest again in 3 months from my negative 2nd test.
So yeah, not covid or covid vaccine related. It’s a mystery what it is though.
I hope you get it figured out and under control and feeling better. I’m thankful I don’t have any chronic or recurring conditions, or have to take any Rx meds. My only real health comorbidity for just about anything is age (almost 65).
thanks. right now, it isn’t bothering me. seems to happen when i’m in my apartment where i have tons of stress. it’s been suggested that it’s stress causing it, but that seems dubious. i’ve been away from my apartment for months now though and it has been under control. but it doesn’t go away immediately upon leaving my apartment.
not on any meds for it, as nobody knows what’s causing it to prescribe anything.
whenever i’d go to a doctor they would ask me if i recently had covid. doctors like to blame everything on covid. i could say no to all of them. now i have had covid, but it was over a year after this fatigue started.
I’m looking for a new doctor, it’s hard to find a good one.
yeah, i really need a new PCP. my current one has been beyond useless in helping me with this fatigue. she ghosted me when she didn’t know the answer. she gets great reviews, but i have found her to be only good for referring me to a specialist when the answer was obvious. not helpful otherwise.
The thing with adverse reactions to a vaccine where literally 200-300m doses are given in a matter of 6 months is that it will precede a number of emergency life threatening events that number what, hundreds of thousands of you include a week or two after the vaccine? Within 6 months, you have a million or so deaths in that population for other things, many thousands of heart attacks, etc. Those are all just expected natural events and have nothing to do with the vaccine. Any one of them on social media gets amplified, and all you need to hear are a few dozen in your extended network to become a skeptic.
This is why we have scientific studies to assess safety. “I read things in the internet” falls well short of a useful metric for comparison.
Hi yoyo, good to see you again.
Hard to say, but my exposure was extreme, so with how quickly my immune system got into gear after 2 or 3 days of mysery makes me believe it was likely the booster helping. The 2 or 3 days had me thinking i needed paxlovid. Glad i was too lazy to figure out how to get it because i really didn’t need it.
I know a few people who claimed to have lingering bad side effects from the vaccine. Someone who didnt have heart issues suddenly does. Someone else with lingering tennitis. Im not sure its just an internet hoax.
Agree. We should also be very interested in understanding the effect of intervening in complex systems, such as human biology, with a technology never before successfully deployed at scale. Law of unintended consequences and all that. What worked well and as expected? What didn’t work as well as we thought? What surprised us? Is there any cause for alarm? How can the technology be improved? These are important questions to investigate.
TY. It’s too early to know if I’m glad to be back or not. 
So I was a bit of a vaccine hold out, and I was berated into the ground for even questioning whether to get it or not. I can’t imagine what you went through. I was upset by the unrelenting propaganda at every level of society.
I wrote a long post about my frustrations back in 2021.
It was frustrating and disheartening at a society level for sure. The pressure was high, but we’d retired in early 2020 (planned, not Covid related) so employer and fellow employee pressure didn’t exist for us. Some friends and family members got the shots and some didn’t. We all had the attitude that the decision was ours to take (shot or not) and that while we were free to make the case for our decision to one another, it was all done with respect and no hard feelings, no acrimony. If I’ve lost friends over it, they weren’t close enough for me to even notice it.
“Family” in this context includes siblings, cousins, nieces and nephews, etc. We all live in the same area of the state.
not sure about your state, but in mine, for a while if you didn’t get the jab you weren’t allowed in restaurants and many other venues. so, even as a retired person, it would affect you to decide against it.
that ban on the unvaccinated has since been lifted.