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covid booster 2023
Sep. 27th, 2023 03:10 pmLast Friday after work I posted a photo to FB of me sitting outside a CVS vaccination area with boxes of skeletons behind me and said, "Seasonally vaxxed."
I know people who are waiting for Novavax (some people literally can't get mRNA -- or get much worse side effects from mRNA than from protein-based --- and others think protein-based will have a better chance against new mutations than the highly specific mRNA), but I'm traveling to my best friend's wedding on Oct 20, so I'd like to be fully baked for that. This was also basically the only weekend until Indigenous Peoples' weekend that we didn't have much scheduled, so I booked a booster for after work on Friday -- in case it wiped me out like it sometimes has before. (I also bundled in my flu shot -- though I know there are arguments to wait until later in the season to get it so you have peak immunity during peak flu season .. which is maybe why work's free flu clinic is usually in October?)
I was seriously wiped out for over a week when I got covid last fall (plus miserable for a day before I got Paxlovid), so I would really like to not repeat that experience -- plus also I would like to reduce the likelihood of getting long covid, etc.
Lol, last Monday, my new roommate messaged me that her co-teacher had tested positive for covid. But that week she masked in the house and mostly stayed in her room. And this week at least 2 coworkers (like on my floor) have stayed home due to covid in their households. Love this surge.
Last Wednesday, a friend posted a CNN link:
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This booster did not, in fact, wipe me out. Friday night, I went to bed and felt achy, and woke up every couple hours. I wasn't overly tired on Saturday, though I did have a headache. I realized after I'd gone to bed Friday night that I think I'm supposed to drink lots of water after a shot, which I hadn't gone out of my way to do.
Heading to bed Saturday night, I felt chills. Which subsided by the time I actually went to bed. I woke up a couple hours later when Abby came to bed and I was over-warm and maybe had a touch of a fever? But I mostly slept through the night.
Sunday I felt mostly okay.
Monday morning I felt a little unwell -- a little tummy upset and maybe fever.
I think I'm pretty solidly back to normal by now?
I know people who are waiting for Novavax (some people literally can't get mRNA -- or get much worse side effects from mRNA than from protein-based --- and others think protein-based will have a better chance against new mutations than the highly specific mRNA), but I'm traveling to my best friend's wedding on Oct 20, so I'd like to be fully baked for that. This was also basically the only weekend until Indigenous Peoples' weekend that we didn't have much scheduled, so I booked a booster for after work on Friday -- in case it wiped me out like it sometimes has before. (I also bundled in my flu shot -- though I know there are arguments to wait until later in the season to get it so you have peak immunity during peak flu season .. which is maybe why work's free flu clinic is usually in October?)
I was seriously wiped out for over a week when I got covid last fall (plus miserable for a day before I got Paxlovid), so I would really like to not repeat that experience -- plus also I would like to reduce the likelihood of getting long covid, etc.
Lol, last Monday, my new roommate messaged me that her co-teacher had tested positive for covid. But that week she masked in the house and mostly stayed in her room. And this week at least 2 coworkers (like on my floor) have stayed home due to covid in their households. Love this surge.
Last Wednesday, a friend posted a CNN link:
US households can order four free tests from Covidtests.gov starting September 25.So, FYI in case you'd missed that news.
***
This booster did not, in fact, wipe me out. Friday night, I went to bed and felt achy, and woke up every couple hours. I wasn't overly tired on Saturday, though I did have a headache. I realized after I'd gone to bed Friday night that I think I'm supposed to drink lots of water after a shot, which I hadn't gone out of my way to do.
Heading to bed Saturday night, I felt chills. Which subsided by the time I actually went to bed. I woke up a couple hours later when Abby came to bed and I was over-warm and maybe had a touch of a fever? But I mostly slept through the night.
Sunday I felt mostly okay.
Monday morning I felt a little unwell -- a little tummy upset and maybe fever.
I think I'm pretty solidly back to normal by now?