Got the J&J this morning, took a long nap in the afternoon. My arm’s only a little sore, feeling okay overall.
My wife got the J&J vaccine Tuesday at a local CVS. She took some Tylenol that night for a headache, but otherwise hasn’t had any side effects.
My arm was actually sorer the next day, but by day 3 it had subsided. The only real side effect might be my falling asleep at 9 or 10 on two different nights, and sleeping around 10 hours. More typical is falling asleep at 1AM or so, and sleeping 6 or 7 hours.
It seems reasonably likely that’s the vaccine, though, you know, cause…correlation. It would be easy to ascribe anything that’s a change in condition to the vaccination.
I did! Saturday morning(3/13/2021). It was an unplanned visit for the appointment so I’m glad the proper observation time was performed after I got the shot. I worked for a short shift afterward and had a busy weekend, so I would’ve been tired anyway. My general feelings afterward for a day or so have been hangover-like: headachey, tired, and sore, plus a bit of chills. I’m not impervious to crappy feelings when I get shots, but overall, not bad- I wasn’t taking any “sick time”, or pain pills to get along.
I took tramodol after the shot, not for pain associated with the shot, but for something else the next day. It might have kept me from having pain from the shot. I kinda roughly massaged the area to see if there was latent pain anywhere. At one point in the evening, it seemed like there was just a little bit of a dull ache, but it wasn’t there when I wasn’t trying to produce it.
The muscle stiffness I’d been feeling in the morning went away by the afternoon, and I think I did sleep more than usual.
Then, of course, there was the thirst mentioned upthread.
The truth is, if I had had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever, I’d worry I wasn’t building any immunity. Now at least I can be pretty sure the shot did it’s job.
Hmmmm. Wrote that at something like 3am, 12 hours post-shot and sleep-deprived. Have no idea what I was talking about. I’ve been a vegetarian since the late 1980s. Don’t know if I was delirious from the shot, or just tired.
CDC: “Possible side effects include fowl ramblings.”
This is how the city and county of Missoula’s Health Department (MT) did it in Missoula when I got my Johnson & Johnson vaccine on March 14, except it was a former Lucky’s Market in Southgate Mall. It was well-organized, delay-free, and fairly laid-back for something fundamentally run on an assembly-line basis. I got all my information entered, they photocopied my photo ID and insurance card, I got the vaccine, and then sat down in a marked section for 15 minutes while nothing happened to me.
I got very minor muscle soreness for two days after, and nothing since.
I posted this in the vaccination thread: 22 hours since my J&J shot, and that was a rough night. Chills and fatigue set in about 7 hours after the shot, and by 11pm I had full blown chills, fever and aches. Today I’m extremely fatigued, achy and have chills. I had COVID in March 2020, so I was wondering how this would go. I’m happy to suffer for a day or two, though, for the end result!
FWIW, the folks at the vaccine site said most people aren’t having much of a reaction to this shot at all. I do think it’s the COVID history that’s making my reaction a bit sportier.
About two days after my J&J shot I had a sore arm - the same thing I had after my last tetanus shot. It disappeared in three more days.
My sympathy to all those who report more extensive reactions. Thank you all for getting the shot.
One more thing: After a few days, I had an overwhelming sense of wellbeing. A great weight was being lifted from my shoulders.
Got the JJ last Sat a.m. No symptoms all day. But I had been having minor back pain for the prior week or so. By 10 p.m., I could barely get out of a chair/bed. In the middle of the night I got chills as bad as the worst flu I can imagine. Next morning the chills were gone, and the back pain gradually subsided over the next couple of days.
Really weird. And was so severe as to be pretty disturbing. Maybe I just coincidentally got the flu or something.
US is going to pause the J&J vaccine.
I just saw this on the news this morning after getting the J&J shot on Sunday.
For what it’s worth, I had no perceivable symptoms other than a slightly sore shoulder.
I see it’s only 6 people who have experienced blood clots. That’s out of 7 million who’ve received the vaccine. Pausing seems like a wrong move to me, but what do I know?
Here’s a helpful breakdown/live tweet of the joint FDA/CDC call on the topic:
https://twitter.com/CarolineYLChen/status/1381971846816534531?s=20
I’ll also say that there is a 1 in 1000 risk of blood clot from birth control, and that doesn’t get much attention outside of a quick aside in your gyno’s office (maybe). There is also a much, much larger risk of blood clot from COVID itself. I am unconcerned about this news, and I’m generally an anxious person about medical stuff.
I thought the same thing, but I heard a report on NPR this morning that there is a plausible mechanism for adenovirus vaccines (J&J and AstraZenica) to cause blood clots, which does not exist with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, which are mRNA vaccines.
The adenovirus vaccine can apparently cause some people’s immune systems to attack platelets. I was in and out of my car, and I’m not quite sure how attacking platelets causes blood clots, unless an assault on platelets causes the body to start pumping them out double-time, and the immune attack is self-limiting, or something.
The point was, there was a plausible mechanism.
Moreover, all the people who had gotten the clots had gotten a very unusual type of clot, and especially unusual for their age group, so you couldn’t just look at the number of vaccinated people, and the number of people in a certain amount of time who got any clot, and divide.
If you considered just women in their age group who got this type of clot, the number should be all but zero, so six in a short space of time was a huge number.
However, since the six women-- and they were all women-- do share a lot of other factors-- close in age, and other things I don’t remember, there was reason to suppose others might be uncovered, such as use of hormonal birth control, and that they probably all were part of some risk group to be vaccinated young, so maybe they were all smokers, or all asthmatics.
Anyway, the hope was that a profile could be put together of a group that needed to be eliminated from taking the J&J vaccine-- say, just as an example, “pre-menopausal women asthmatics,” and other groups could safely receive it.
No regrets about getting the J&J vaccine, although I’m a woman in the bad age range.
But now I have a slight headache and a mystery bruise on my knee, and my lungs hurt - so, you know, just a normal Wednesday, here - and I’m frantically googling blood clot symptoms.
And I hope, if I ever again complain about my depression and suicidal ideation, someone points to this and says, “hey, dipshit - weren’t you only just freaking about how you’re dying of rare blood clots?”
The vaccine is fine. My brain is the worst.
I hope you don’t mind… but here’s a hug for you: ((( Merneith))
I’m not a “huggy” person but I do miss getting and giving them to my kids now and then. I love the hugs from Mistermage, don’t get me wrong, but since the kids are adults that do mask up and sanitize but aren’t vaxxed… I haven’t hugged any of them since a year ago.
Sometimes a hug helps lift the darkness.
FWIW:
The women who experienced the blood clots are suspected to have some other factor in common, because they all got vaccines before their age had come up. No one had looked at their individual histories yet, at the time that I heard the report, so they could have been smokers, asthmatics, obese, or even have all been first responders, at which point, then, they needed to be tested for a lot of things that first responders could have come in contact with without showing symptoms-- including previous COVID infections-- but also things like cytomegaloviruses, and active or very recent infections of what are usually childhood issues, like hand-foot-mouth disease.
But the point is, there is almost a guarantee of SOMETHING. If you got the vaccine because the age finally got lowered to your group, then you should have little to worry about.
I got the J&J too, and while I’m older than the group they are looking at, the age they toss out is “pre-menopausal,” which I am, in spite of being 54 (don’t get me started). But I have no risk factors, other than my age, which isn’t a high risk factor, and that’s why I waited, and expected to wait longer, but the J&J vaccine shortened my wait, and I’m glad for it.
I complained in the general symptoms thread, but I’ll do it here too if someone is looking for J&J specific.
I had a terrible week since I got mine. HOWEVER, I was feeling a little under the weather before I got the shot and then my kid got sick a few days later so there’s no way to tell what was vaccine and what was a shared bug. I was mildly headachey, dizzy, nauseated, tired. Maybe a bit of malaise too, but who wouldn’t feel down feeling like shit for a solid week and with a sick kid to take care of too?
My arm hurt a lot, then got better, then got worse again. I had frozen shoulder several years ago and while it healed for the most part, it never got back to 100%. Like 95%. The shot seems to have flared that old injury up. Or in a huge coincidence, I somehow injured it when I haven’t done anything for a week. But I don’t know if I would count that as a real side effect or just a really weird thing that would only happen to me.