I just got a covid booster and this year’s flu shot today.
Has anyone else done this? I know that reactions are fairly personal, but did it seem better, worse, no different than just getting the shots separately on different days?
I did it. It… Seemed like getting a covid shot. I don’t usually get much reaction to the flu vaccine. I was pretty sore after covid boosters. This wasn’t quite as bad as the last booster, but similar.
My doctor said they’ve studied it and the reactions aren’t worse.
This past Saturday I got the Moderna bivalent booster and a flu shot at the same time, in the same arm. No reaction other than the usual soreness at the injection site(s) for a day, and a couple days later one of the sites had a light bruise and there was some mild itching (that “healing” kind of itching).
I never had much of a reaction to any previous COVID shot (this made injection #5, though the previous four were Pfizer), and I’ve never had a flu shot reaction.
I got one in each arm on the same day, a couple of weeks ago. The covid shot was a Pfizer (all of mine have been, that’s all that’s been offered at the places that were easy for me to get to.) – and that was my fifth covid shot, I had previously had the initial series and both the earlier boosters.
Both arms were slightly sore for about a day afterwards, but not so sore that I couldn’t use them normally.
I don’t usually get any reaction to the flu shot at all. A couple of my previous covid shots had the same sort of reaction; another made me very sleepy for a day; and one, I think it was the third one, left me feeling utterly crappy for a few hours the next morning, but I was fine by afternoon.
On my checkup last month, my doctor recommended I get flu, tetanus, pneumonia, covid, and shingles vaccinations. They gave me the tetanus and pneumonia vaccinations there at the office and told me I could get the others at a pharmacy.
I went to the pharmacy from the doctor’s and the pharmacist suggested I wait a week rather than getting any more vaccinations that day.
I got the flu vaccination a week later and the covid and shingles vaccinations on the same day three weeks after that (because I was out of town for a couple of weeks).
So two vaccinations in the same day seems okay but three might be pushing it.
I experienced no bad reactions to any of these. I generally don’t experience bad reactions to vaccinations.
I got my flu and latest booster last week. I was a bit under the weather the next day, but was able to go for a hike the day after.
Got both. Same arm. No reaction other than a bit of soreness the next day.
I got one of my boosters with a flu shot. No effects at all.
I got my 4th Covid vaccine and flu shot simultaneously. Very mild side effects.
My wife and me got the fourth Covid and the flu shot on wednesday, one on each arm, today is sunday. Both felt down on thursday, my joints hurt, particularly the knees, and I felt tired. On friday everything was fine again. On previous Covid shots we both had no side effects at all. Both arms are still a bit pressure sensitive, nothing bad though.
It’s pretty standard here in the UK. I had one in each arm last week and my wife is booked in for hers this week.
There seems to be some consensus that this will be the norm for the foreseeable future, just as flu shots for pensioners have been for the last decade.
Well, kids routinely get measles, mumps, and rubella as a single shot. Similarly diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.
I’m expected a combined covid/flu “fall respiratory diseases” booster in the future. Or maybe there are too many “flavors” of flu shot?
I got both at the same time recently. About eight hours after I got the shots I started feeling horrible. All of my joints ached, massive headache, and I think a low-grade fever. That lasted about 24 hours and it went away as quickly as it started. My arm was a little more sore than usual too. But I’d rather feel like crap for 24 hours than get a bad case of COVID or flu.
I had boosters for both a month ago, in the same arm. I had soreness at the site of the injection, which I’ve also had for all of my previous covid shots. It was hard to tell if it was one sore spot or two (or one larger one). The shot-giver was surprised I wanted both in the same arm, but I feel the soreness most when I lie down on that side, and I figured I have to sleep somehow.
No other side effects.
I got both at once and the worst I experienced was a sore arm when I pressed on it. Spousal unit’s arm was sore a bit longer than mine was, but no other symptoms.
Did it. No problems
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I got the latest Moderna and a flu shot. It kicked my butt. Two things for me. I’m 65 and I got the BIG flu shot for old farts. It only lasted a day. I’d still get both but maybe not on the same day.
I had an appointment for both (Covid + flu) at my excellent pharmacy.
The pharmacist asked if I wanted the jabs in one or both arms.
I asked what the difference was.
“You can have one slightly sore arm … or two!”
I had them on the same arm and there were no symptoms at all.
I got both, one in each arm. The flu shot arm was sore for about 24 hours.
I had none of the side effects I had from the second COVID shot. Actually of the four COVID shots, I only had the “headache/tiredness at the 36 hour mark” on the second one.