I thought I must be immune to covid....I thought wrong

In reply to Tom Suddard :

Same here. First shot, nothing. Second shot, insta-flu. 8 hours later, gone in a flash.

Pfizer double vaxed.  
 

latest variant no care about vaccination status at least from a catching it standpoint.  Friends of mine who are unvaxxed now have to use an inhaler daily after catching latest variant. He still ran a tri with me but scans of lungs show permanent scarring. 

In reply to Fueled by Caffeine :

Wife's aunt that was triple vaxxed had the same issue with lung scarring. She is also in her 70's, obese and diabetic so she was already in the super high risk category. They are contemplating putting her on low volume O2 if they can't get her O2 values right with inhalers/medicine/treatments. It hits people so wildly. 

Triple Pfizer vaxxed and figured I was good until about 6 weeks ago when it caught me.  A couple of days feeling sickly on the couch and two weeks off work.  Second week I was bored and swapped in the new-to-me 6 speed to my Miata.

Good time to note that the new bivalent vaccine should be approved this week and available very soon after.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fall-covid-19-boosters-roll-pending-green-light

Moderna vax (1&2) and Pfizer booster x2. 

I don't know for sure if I had it back in early July or if I was just exhausted from over-training, but I haven't experienced symptoms.  Since I didn't have symptoms, I didn't test for it.

As soon as the new booster is available, I'll get it. 

fully up to date with straight moderna here, kiddo brought it home from daycare and we all wound up getting it. A week of flu-like, then a week of run-down, then two weeks of off until normal.  IBprufen and dayquil got us through it. 

I've had worse Flu, but this was more inflammation than most sinus infections I have had, it never really felt like it struck us in the deep lungs. My wife cracked a rib from the coughing and thats about the only longer term thing we have faced.   I will say it sure sucked being sick and watching two kids under 5 who were also sick. Our youngest (1.5yo at the time) staggered catching it until a week after the rest of us. All told our kids were out of daycare for almost a month with the outbreak.  If it werent for the kids I would have replaced dayquil with nyquil to sleep through the worst of it while I had it.  

Kids in school/daycare pretty much guarantees that we will catch whatever is floating around.

Since then, kids got the shot as soon as eligible and we will all be keeping up to date. 

I thought I was going to make it through without catching covid, too. I had both initial doses of Moderna vaccine then a booster of Pfizer. Each time I felt pretty ill the next day, but then 100% better the day after that. When I got Covid, it was the end of the first full day of our big Keys vacation, so we had just flown and taken a taxi - mask on the plane, none in the taxi - and I spent two days in bed with fever and chills then was mostly OK. My wife and 5 year old came down with it, too - both vaccinated - but my 7 year old was a tank and never got sick. Sure messed our plans up for the trip, but we managed to eke some fun out of it. (Hard not to, in the keys.)

I hope you get well soon and don't have any long term symptoms. None of us developed anything lingering except maybe a cough for a few days after. Then my wife got an ear infection - no idea if that was related.

Pfizer first and second last year, no boosters. Fiance caught it at the end of 2020 before there were vaccinations. With her RA it put her in bed for 2 straight weeks, we quarantined her to the spare bedroom. But even sleeping next to her until she got a positive test at the doctor, my overweight drinking ass didn't catch it. Still haven't at multiple comedy shows, concerts, etc. Or if I did I was asymptomatic, but I rarely get genuinely sick. Barely even catch colds. I haven't been "laying in bed for a few days sick" since I was probably 20, so 20 years ago. 

I'm going with all the drugs I did in college made my immune system stronger. 

Pfizer double vax and one booster. I had a sore arm for a day with each shot, but no other reactions. The case of Covid I had after the shots was VERY mild. As I said before, if I wasn't exposed, I wouldn't have even thought to test. Felt like my usual seasonal allergies. 

I have had three Moderna shots and, knock on wood, no COVID that I am aware of.    The second shot made me feel like crap for a couple of days.  The other 2 were no worse than a flu shot.   I have a doctor visit in September and will hopefully get another booster that will cover more strains.   

I hope the OP escapes any pneumonia.  

Three doses of Pfizer with heart palpitations getting worse after each dose. They've finally stopped.

Not planning on another dose at this point.

I had the two Pfizers and one Pf booster and while I haven't been wearing a mask everywhere I go lately, I also have not been in crowds like at concerts and such. The bride and I do go out to eat occasionally, but again nothing where we're in big crowds.

So it was a surprise when I started feeling poorly last Fri and then tested positive on Sat

Today I feel like I've turned a corner but not out of the woods yet. I'm 73, not overweight or diabetic, tho I have had some heart issues in the past, I consider my self to be in generally good health.....don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs so it did catch me by surprise.

I had a video interview with my Dr yesterday and she prescribed the "Paxitril", but I think I've decided not to take it, as  couple friends did and said the side effects can be brutal, plus there's the bounce back thing.

aircooled said:

I have not gotten a good answer on how you vaccine response relates to your response to COVID.

You never will

Toebra said:

aircooled said:

I have not gotten a good answer on how you vaccine response relates to your response to COVID.

You never will

It's too variable.

Well... now it's my turn.  Started feeling a bit crappy before lunch today... tested a little while ago - Positive. Yay.  Right now, just feels like a mild cold. Bit of a sore throat and tired.

As far as my vaccine reactions:

Moderna #1 (Apr/21): mild arm soreness; felt a little sick for a day.

Moderna #2 (May/21): arm soreness; felt like death for about 24 hours.

Both Pfizer boosters (Dec/21, Apr/22): no reaction at all.

I don't know if there's a correlation, none of my vaccines hurt except for the spot of the injection, which went away after a day or less.

Double vaxxed and double boosted thanks to underlying conditions (asthma and immune deficiencies). Moderna all the way, which kicked my butt pretty much every time: Fever over 101, body aches, basically a long weekend of miserable X 4.

Got Covid last month from either Tom or Tim, who had both traveled and popped symptomatic before I did. Tested negative for 2 days and took care of Tim, who had no discernible reaction to his J&J vaccine or Pfizer booster, but was pretty miserable in a bad head cold sort of way; started showing symptoms that second day, but tested negative until day 3. After that Tom, who had had cold symptoms and by that time was positive, came over and joined us here to spare Nicole, who was negative and needed to stay that way with a dance show coming up. We spent 4-5 days feeling crappy, another 4-5 testing positive and feeling fatigued but otherwise okay. Binged a lot of shows. Went through a lot of Kleenex and NyQuil. Had a couple of nights of scary coughing. Tim had a teledoc  appointment and asked about Paxlovid, but was told side effects are unpleasant and rebound is real. (Also have a couple of friends who had it weeks before me and took Paxlovid; both experienced GI upset, extremely bad taste in their mouth, and rebound cases.)

I had the worst reactions to the shots and was also the sickest, but then again, I got the shots because I was likeliest to become very ill.

So no real conclusions here, just best wishes and commiseration, because Covid after vaccination means you feel better long before you can really leave your house. Though a month later, I've still had weird days when the cough and fatigue return like they never left.

Margie

Lil Stampie and I are both triple vaxed.  Few months ago he got symptoms but mild.  Of course the next night I go to eat dinner and could immediately tell my sense of taste was off.  That scared me.  I'm a fat boy for a reason.  I like food.  Anyway both of us didn't really get past anything mild and felt fine within a couple of days.  My sense of taste returned within a few days to normal.

Sister has it now. Overweight, diabetic, and 60. Hope she makes out OK.

My next door neighbor was one of the first in the neighborhood to get it back in the beginning. Spent a month in hospital on breathing machine etc.  When he was released he was on oxygen for quite a while. He's been one of the long term sufferers and been in/out of the hospital about 10 times over the past 2 1/2 years and is miserable. He just got home via ambulance a few days ago after a week in the hospital and family is trying to figure out how to get him into a nursing home. He's mid 50's and while other neighbors have died from covid since he first got sick he looks and sounds like he wished he'd just died himself.

I've had two shots and been boosted, all with moderna. Second shot made me feel crappy for a day. I've used N-95 masks since Feb 2020 when I have to go anywhere where there are other people which is rare for me compared with most people. I live alone, work at home,  have little contact with the outside world and haven't gotten sick so far. I've got enough medical issues already, don't need another. 

In reply to NOT A TA :

Thinking of you and your sister.  We've gotten complacent in how we think about Covid.  It's still real.

My mother died of it. I am still in shock over how this went down in the last few years.

I have been exposed once at work and once at my mother's deathbed. Still haven't tested positive after many tests. Am I one of the few who are immune. I don't know.

Triple vaxxed with Moderna. Will be getting the new booster as soon as it's available.

Stampie said:

In reply to NOT A TA :

We've gotten complacent in how we think about Covid.  It's still real.

Yeah I think this is what everyone's doing wrong - maybe not really everyone, but just too many people, which is all it takes. People are getting pretty relaxed about it these days, and it's still the most infectious virus ever known to humanity circulating, and catching a more recent variant is still pretty bad - I'd rather not roll the dice with "long COVID." I still wear an N95 in any public indoor settings and I've avoided it so far. I'm not seeing many other people doing the same. I've only been unmasked indoors with a decent number of people once since the beginning of the pandemic, nobody in the group caught it that time, another time I was one of the only people masked in a crowded house and I was about the only person who didn't get infected...so there may have been some luck involved that one time. My dad caught it after going on a flight where he was masked up with an N95 the whole time door-to-door except for taking off his mask for a few seconds to show that his face matched his passport. Luckily he'd just had a booster and got over it quickly.

I've had 2 Pfizer + Moderna and will hopefully get an updated shot before the Challenge.

In reply to GameboyRMH :

My family is still masking up while indoors and so far we haven't gotten it (that we know of). Outside of travel situations we also haven't been in any indoor crowds, and also haven't eaten inside. 

I think avoiding covid for 3 years requires some luck and being ok with breaking a number of social norms. It's easier for some people than others.