Wellness

[Porcelain]

I'm just so happy for everyone getting vaccinated! Especially the second shot! These threads really warm my heart.

I've been worried about many of y'all and your families. Really glad you and yours will be safe, and free to (carefully) get back to what you love.

[DJP]

This is ridiculous. What's the point of vaccines if you still have to wear masks and can't dine inside. We won't have a country left. We need more scientists to look into this matter. Not just one person.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@DJP wrote:

This is ridiculous. What's the point of vaccines if you still have to wear masks and can't dine inside. We won't have a country left. We need more scientists to look into this matter. Not just one person.

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@DJP  People are still getting the vaccine. It doesn't happen overnight. And we have been dining inside for quite awhile. 

[ninjawife]

I had my second shot on Sunday and I feel like *rap.  I didn't feel this bad when I had my first shot.  My whole body aches, I am exhausted and I can't sleep. 

I will be able to resume my monthly massages starting at the end of next month but I won't be able to resume many other acrivities with my family as they might not be eligible for the vaccine for awhile.  I was able to get vaccinated now b/c I work in a school system and I am exposed to unmasked children - preschoolers with special needs. 

[Eileen in Virginia]

Congrats! DH and I get our second Moderna shots on March 10. My 95 year old aunt got her second Moderna shot Saturday morning. When I checked in with her later that evening, she said she felt fine; also fine on Sunday afternoon. Hope we have the same results. 🙂

[KaySD]

@hckynut My understanding is that for most people, immunity keeps going up until perhaps 2 weeks after the 2nd dose. 

That doesn't mean we take off our masks or get in each others' faces. For one thing, it's possible the vaccinated can still carry it and give it to others. For another thing, there's no way to know who's been vaccinated and who hasn't. So we all need to keep up safe practices until the vaccination levels in the population are at a critical mass.

I think that's what people are saying might take until 2022, especially if there are a lot of people who decide not to get the vaccine. And then there's the rest of the planet, and the possible virus variants, etc. None of us knows yet how that will all work out.

[skatting44]

 There will never be 100% of people on the planet who receive the vaccine and 100% of people who have had the vaccine  are not 100%  immune . There are thousands of people who  have actually  had covid 19 and don't even know it  so have developed antibodies . So what we all keep the country shut down for the rest of our lives and go into  bankruptcy  , starvation, illiteracy  and waiting around for the next pandemic  ???

 Those  at high risk   need to be on our guard but we  do not have the right  to tell others  that they cannot live  . Crazy what is going on. Talk abt basic human rights - ours are being controlled by a few people  that are outright totalitarians. 

[on the bay]

@ninjawife -

Your post (I'm sorry!) but was so encouraging to me.

My second day of the 2nd shot was not fun either but also couldn't sleep-my stomach hurt, headache, aches, so tired, nauseated.I knew it wouldn't last, and I thought it was all over tonight but my stomach still hurts and I tried to sleep for over an hour -finally got up

to hope I can go to sleep a little later.

I did get to take a long nap this afternoon.

What encouraged me was you couldn't sleep either. I wondered if insomnia is a side effect, maybe until you crash?!

But I also wondered for the people who don't have any side effects but a sore arm, is their immune response really gearing up to protect themas much as if you get worse side effects?

Thats an interesting question. 

I hope you feel better soon and me too!

[Jersey Born]

@on the bay @ninjawife - I hope you both feel 100% better very soon.

I don't consider nausea, stomachache, headache, body aches, and exhaustion without ability to sleep, minor side effects.  To me, minor means a sore arm with a raised lump at the site of injection.  

I don't remember any prior vaccine authorized for use (EUA or not) in our population resulting in as many people claiming they have to take a day or two off from work afterward (from nurses, to doctors, to teachers), so the effects from these novel shots are definitely something new, due to the novel mRNA contents of these new inoculations against COVID-19 symptoms. While some assert that these are not novel injections, because researchers were trying to develop them for use for some time,  these shots are most certainly novel to the human population.  These kinds of injections were never used before on humans, because they did not work for the laboratory animals they were previously tested upon (i.e. they caused a worsening of viral replication in the lungs of inoculated animals upon actual challenge with the virus in experiments.). 

I pray that the side effects end quickly, for those who are experiencing them.  I also hope that if the sleep-depriving symptoms do not subside quickly, that everyone suffering them will take the extra step to seek out medical attention, and not just write off their problems as an expected result.  Just as we should seek out medical attention when we are sick, we also need to pay attention to the side effects we experience from medications and from inoculations we take.  If we don't report our side effects from medical products, there will never be any need for a drug or vaccine manufacturer to make a safer, less reactive product. 

[on the bay]

@Jersey Born -

Not to worry.

There is a form that you can record your symptoms.

Also anyone feeling "constricted"

around here, look up New Zealand!

They are free simply because they all did the right thing for all.