NETWizz
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I did promise to follow-up.
I apologize for not following up earlier...
The first Pfizer shot February 1st made me mildly ill with chills. While the fever itself went away in hours, and the chills would come and go moderately at first and mildly later, it was very annoying in that it was around February 18th before I was finally chill free. I would say I felt freezing cold with the house heated to 74 F (23.3 C). In fact, at the worst of it I was sleeping under three (3) comforters with a blanket under the comforters and one under the fitted sheet. I DID get warm this way, but it felt like it took a half hour any time I moved to get warm again.
One day to the next felt like I was not getting better, but if I compared any given day to say three days ago an improvement was obvious. The chills were less severe by week two, and around 18 days later I was around 95% normal.
All that said, I did NOT have any other symptoms other than chills to the first Pfizer vaccine.
I was supposed to get my second dose February 22nd, but by then I had just felt normal for a handful of days, so I decided to delay it for a while being there is no reported harm. The CDC at the time said there was no maximum interval between doses, so I scheduled my second Dose for March 19th. Really NOT wanting to go through all that again especially if it is going to be worse!
Here were the published guidelines February 9th (no Maximum interval):
Then they changed it to this (Up to 42 Days) So I moved my second dose up to March 12:
I received Dose #2 on Friday, March 12:
Side-Effects Second Time:
March 12:
March 13:
March 14:
For the record, neither dose had any kind of local site reaction. Both were entirely painless where I did not feel the first one administered at all, and neither left any arm pain whatsoever. I guess I am weird to be abnormal and the reverse of everyone else... I am just glad this second dose did not leave me freezing like the first dose. I expected to be shivering and shaking in a jacket writing this post, but I am in fact wearing my bed clothes, which consist of very little. Furthermore it was (74 F in here 23.3 C and I ran the air conditioning to cool this floor to (72 F 22.2C). I do NOT feel feverish at all where last time, I felt like I had a low-grade fever for two weeks though I really had a low-grade fever only one day.
I feel perfectly fine at this point and currently have no regrets taking it. That said, after the first dose, I was really second guessing if I wanted to get the second dose. The irony is the EXACT same thing happened to one of my female coworkers.
She had ongoing chills for a couple of weeks the first time and only a headache the second day after the second dose. I was like... "I hope it goes for me like you, and it did!"
Do NOT believe the news media that the second dose is always the worse one!
If you have horrible chills and are freezing cold for a couple weeks after your first Pfizer vaccine, based on myself and one other person I know the Second one will be a vastly better experience.
It is still early in that in theory new side-effects can start within a week, but right now I am fairly certain all is well.
I apologize for not following up earlier...
The first Pfizer shot February 1st made me mildly ill with chills. While the fever itself went away in hours, and the chills would come and go moderately at first and mildly later, it was very annoying in that it was around February 18th before I was finally chill free. I would say I felt freezing cold with the house heated to 74 F (23.3 C). In fact, at the worst of it I was sleeping under three (3) comforters with a blanket under the comforters and one under the fitted sheet. I DID get warm this way, but it felt like it took a half hour any time I moved to get warm again.
One day to the next felt like I was not getting better, but if I compared any given day to say three days ago an improvement was obvious. The chills were less severe by week two, and around 18 days later I was around 95% normal.
All that said, I did NOT have any other symptoms other than chills to the first Pfizer vaccine.
I was supposed to get my second dose February 22nd, but by then I had just felt normal for a handful of days, so I decided to delay it for a while being there is no reported harm. The CDC at the time said there was no maximum interval between doses, so I scheduled my second Dose for March 19th. Really NOT wanting to go through all that again especially if it is going to be worse!
Here were the published guidelines February 9th (no Maximum interval):
Then they changed it to this (Up to 42 Days) So I moved my second dose up to March 12:
I received Dose #2 on Friday, March 12:
Side-Effects Second Time:
March 12:
- No fever this time!
- 1.5 hours later mild chills more mild than last time (they lasted about 1.5 hours)
- Mild recurring, intermittent headache (probably 2 hours total)
- Mild Nausea (no vomiting - 30 minutes maybe)
- Mental Fog not feeling right ( perhaps an hour)
- Tiredness and Fatigue (I went to bed about 6 hours early - it cured my insomnia)
- During the night:
- Mild night-sweats not bad enough to have to change clothing or bed linens (i.e. no laundry required). Gone second half of night.
- First half of night I felt cold at one point when I woke up and went from one comforter to two. It resolved the issue in not even 5 minutes I felt warm again. Nothing like the first time. Second half of night, I was back to one comforter like normal.
March 13:
- Woke up with a moderate headache that cleared after breakfast
- After an hour it returned as a mild headache before noon.
- Pretty much had a headache all day. Some how I fell asleep watching TV
- Around 2 PM I started feeling pretty good with no headache waking from a nap, so I took a long walk. It was a beautiful (75 F 24 C) day... continued feeling pretty good
- Went to bed at 4 AM (had a ham radio discussion and hug out on Stream Yard all night). Felt pretty good.
March 14:
- Felt perfect all day. In fact 100%. This has been MUCH better for me than the first dose!
For the record, neither dose had any kind of local site reaction. Both were entirely painless where I did not feel the first one administered at all, and neither left any arm pain whatsoever. I guess I am weird to be abnormal and the reverse of everyone else... I am just glad this second dose did not leave me freezing like the first dose. I expected to be shivering and shaking in a jacket writing this post, but I am in fact wearing my bed clothes, which consist of very little. Furthermore it was (74 F in here 23.3 C and I ran the air conditioning to cool this floor to (72 F 22.2C). I do NOT feel feverish at all where last time, I felt like I had a low-grade fever for two weeks though I really had a low-grade fever only one day.
I feel perfectly fine at this point and currently have no regrets taking it. That said, after the first dose, I was really second guessing if I wanted to get the second dose. The irony is the EXACT same thing happened to one of my female coworkers.
She had ongoing chills for a couple of weeks the first time and only a headache the second day after the second dose. I was like... "I hope it goes for me like you, and it did!"
Do NOT believe the news media that the second dose is always the worse one!
If you have horrible chills and are freezing cold for a couple weeks after your first Pfizer vaccine, based on myself and one other person I know the Second one will be a vastly better experience.
It is still early in that in theory new side-effects can start within a week, but right now I am fairly certain all is well.
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