Yeah, I want to have a down day afterwards.
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Heck, why not wait for year end?
Eh, I want that vaccine boost before the winter holidays.
I’m planning to get my flu and COVID shots on Saturday, 7 October, since I’m off work on Monday the 9th.
I mentioned this timing to intake doctors when my wife was in the hospital over the weekend. They thought that was good timing given the probable timing of the emergence of winter respiratory viruses.
EDIT: Crap. I just realized that I have a 7am meeting on the 9th (I’ve recently been loaned out to a team based in London), and my wife has a PT appointment that evening.
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YE ends 4/15 for me, so a little late.
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Getting my flu shot and COVID booster today. I have plans to be around people in the next couple months. Gross.
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Getting new COVID vaccine on Tuesday. Wife works at a school with a shit-ton of germs, and she has relatives with shitty immune systems.
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Got the flu and covid vaccines today. Sitting around hoping I don’t die from the side effects before going home.
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:fingers crossed: that you’ll be fine. We decided to wait for our flu vaccine until October, not for concern about side effects but hoping for slightly better immunity during heavier flu season
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I don’t have a strong preference, but I am not convinced I’ll prioritize the flu shot later. It’s easy when I’m consistently in the office, but I don’t know that I’ll be in when they offer the on-site clinics.
I think I’ll get a flu shot early October. Probably should schedule appt for that.
My plan is to get jabbed for both flu and covid at the same time, probably mid October.
The only one close by to me is Pfizer.
I could drive 1/2 an hour to stay on team Moderna.
Is there any reason (real or imagined) that I should try to stay with Moderna?
I got Moderna yesterday. The store had both Moderna and Pfizer available and asked me which I wanted. I think it might be my fifth Moderna? I guess it’s a good sign that I don’t remember and it no longer matters. It also never occurred to me to bring my old covid vaccine card and they didn’t ask about it. And they didn’t ask about any previous covid vaccines.
I had no reaction with any of the previous ones. With this one, I got the moderate punch-in-the-arm, but nothing else.
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CVS had told me to bring my vaccine card, and they added this one to it
I brought my card, but the pharmacist said they weren’t adding it to it anymore because it’s become like an annual flu vaccine. But if I needed it for anything, I could ask CVS for the record.
Symptoms are moderate for this one. The last one I’d had virtually no symptoms, and I’ve had Pfizer for all 5 now. Body aches, terrible headache, but no fever. So my updated chart of effects:
In order of best to worst, mine were 1 ———4———————5———2————————————————————————————-3
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After having done a bit of traveling over the past month, I haven’t been feeling 100% at times. I did not test for Covid. If it is POSSIBLE that I caught Covid, would one recommend not getting the vaccine yet?
I am not a doctor, but I would say, probably should get the vaccine if you want it? Lots of folks are no longer testing, lots of rapid tests aren’t accurate (just had a friend test negative on a nose swab, but positive on a throat swab right after that). Lots of people have had covid and never knew. I had a cold a few weeks ago, rapid test said it wasn’t covid, but maybe it was? No way to know for sure.
Are you at high risk? If so, get jabbed ASAP.
If not, when were you sick? How much covid is going around in your circles? What are your fall/winter plans involving gathering with more people that usual, or with more vulnerable people than usual (like grandparents)?
Unless you have a lot of covid going around, or plan to visit granny in a month, I’d wait in your situation. If you did get covid, getting the vaccine now is wasted. Not harmful, but unlikely to help.
I’d wait until the earlier of 3 months after your covid-like bug (if you knew it was covid, I’d probably wait 6 months) and 4 weeks before visiting the grandparents.