This week has been super busy with several regular health appts I usually make as soon as school is out. Plus I ended up helping a friend with something a couple days, we started walking every morning for an hour ( I was very sporadic with it this year and the scale sadly shows that!), and I volunteered to help with a 3 hour event last night so was on my feet the whole time ( wearing good supportive shoes).
I also got my 1st shingles shot yesterday afternoon. This morning the lower half of my body is very achy and I can't decide if it is from the increased activity, the shot, or both! Ready to sit on my porch and read for a while. Good excuse not to mow the lawn today!
Congratulations again on your retirement! I was fine with both shingles shots. I recommend to make sure you keep your arm moving. Enjoy endless summer!
I really had almost no reaction to my 4 Pfizer shots....just a bit tired after one and arm a bit sore at site .
This shingles shot is making up for that, but luckily still not as bad as my DD had for her covid vaccine. ( she had terrible chills and vomiting !)
I am exhausted, achy all over now, a bit chilly ( it is 85 here and no ac and I'm under a light blanket) and a slight fever. Injection site is a warm red lump
Already napped in lounger on porch. Might stay awake for an episode of Suits, which PT'ers suggested and I've never seen, and them take another nap.
Good decision to get that Shingrix vaccine. Sorry about the reaction, but WAAAYYY better than shingles. A lazy day today and then feeling much better tomorrow, I hope.
The second shingles vaccine knocked me on my butt for 3 days. I had a fever and body aches for three days. Still better than shingles
Yes, I knew the 2nd shot often does a number on people. But agreed, WAY better than getting it. I had a super mild case once, but I know someone who lost an eye to it a few years ago.
Ugh. I'm still trying to talk myself into that shingles shot. I had the Prevnar23 vaccination a couple of weeks ago, at the recommendations of both my doctor and my pharmacist, because of being diabetic and having had a couple of pneumonia infections in the past. That one wiped me out for 2 days: fever, chills, intense body aches, nausea and vomiting and dizziness. It took me 3 more days to quit feeling weak and mildly nauseous. It was far worse than even my reaction to the 2nd CoVid booster - or any other vaccine I've had.
So now I think I'm going to have to get a little past the memory of that before I can make myself throw down to make myself sick as a dog, again. I have a road trip coming up but after that I'll start again trying to talk myself into it.
I had a shingles shot with a flu shot (one in each arm) and I was achy with a low grade fever that evening. I took Advil and I was fine the next morning. My arm was still sore, but not my whole body.
I don't know if it was the shingles shot or a combination of 2 at once, but I never had that happen with a flu shot when I took it alone. My principal had the same experience.
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