No problems other than my COVID arm was more sore than usual. It lasted about a day. I really think it’s a crapshoot.
No different than the covid shot by itself, which makes me very tired the next day. I have never had a flu shot reaction. Both arms did ache, I had one shot in each.
Got both my bivalent booster and flu shot in my left arm in the morning. It was sore enough that I couldn’t use it all day. Next morning, woke up and soreness was gone. No other side effects.
Bivalent + flu yesterday morning. Mild fatigue, I think a very brief bit of low-grade fever and a slight wooziness that started several hours after injection and lasted through the evening. Then I slept 10.5 hours 
. Now a residual lump with mild soreness/itchiness at the COVID shot site, nothing much on the flu side.
Had no Covid shot reactions to the first 4 shots, the recent 5th shot, given with flu shot, knocked me sideways for 2 days. Mostly chills and fatigue and aches but I don’t think I’ve ever had chills like that before
I got my flu shot(left arm) and bivalent Covid booster(right arm) about a month ago. I hardly felt the booster shot, the flu shot made my "good "arm sore, as usual. That arm also has a large Patanjali *
tattoo on it so the little bandage over the injection site looked like a funky eye patch. I was going to say, I’ve received my first shingles vax in the last couple of months, and that was the worst reaction, so this was kind of a nothing burger, : )
- Patanjali is the half man/half serpent incarnation of Adisesha, the Serpent of Infinity, also the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, among other things in South Asian culture. note that this is a very general description, no disrespect for anything left out or not quite on the nose. Here’s a representation:
I never had any reaction to my first three COVID jabs which were Moderna. My fourth and fifth jabs were Pfizer and I had a minor reaction of a mild headache and fever for about 12 hours the next day.
Had both flu and COVID shots in my left arm with the usual minor soreness.
When I went last month to get my third covid-19 booster (and first bivalent one) at an Ontario Ministry of Health clinic, the greeter asked if I was there for a flu shot or the covid-19 vaccine. I hadn’t known that the flu shot was being offered, so I opted for both. The administering nurse advised getting them in separate arms, so I can report that my right-arm reaction to the covid-19 shot was mild soreness for an hour or so, the same as for all of the previous covid-19 injections, but my left-arm reaction to the flu shot was fairly significant soreness that lasted about a day and a half. I had no other symptoms.
My family all got flu and Covid shots recently. My teenagers got them the week before Thanksgiving; my husband and I got ours this week. All of us except for one son received one shot in each arm. The pharmacist giving the shot to my husband and I - at a different location from where my children got vaccinated - told us it was more beneficial to administer a shot in each arm rather than two shots in one arm. The CDC website says either way is fine. I see that posters here have received the shots either way. We all experienced mildly sore arms and that was that.
I got covid and flu vaccinations both in the same arm in one visit a couple of weeks ago. Slightly more sore at the injection site the next day, but I think that’s probably just within the normal variation to be expected from different people’s injection techniques. I felt a bit lousy and achy in general the next morning and it wore off over the course of the day, which is normal for either of the vaccinations for me. It wasn’t worse for having the two together.
I feel like the discomfort one feels, if any, in the aftermath of a vaccination is the pain of ones own immune system going on alert - so it’s not double just because there are two parties on the opposition.
I had my covid booster a three weeks at Walgreens. A week later I had my twice-a year doctor visit, so I got my flu shot then as I usually get it at the doctor’s office.
Husband and I, yes. He had low grade fever and chills as usual. Me, nothing except for sore arms.
It stood out to me that the medical professionals at both locations where my family received Covid and flu shots (my children at a vaccination clinic at school, a drug store for my husband and I) made a point of showing us the vials with labels for each vaccination - basically, this is what you are receiving; this is the flu shot; this is the Covid shot. For my children, the professional showed it to me and waited for my acknowledgement. That was new to me.
I got my flu shot and my bivalent Covid booster at the same time, 5 days ago. I wasn’t too concerned because I’ve never had any negative reaction to any vaccine, other than a little soreness at the injection site.
There’s a first time for everything, I guess, because I’ve been sick as a dog since Tuesday night. Cough, congestion, a killer sore throat, chills, muscle aches and a fever between 101 and 102. I can get the fever down to double digits with Tylenol, but it comes back up when the medication wears off. Which it just did, and I’m at 101.8. I want to wait a few more hours for my next dose of fever reducer so I can sleep through the night.
I’m one of these people with no chronic health problems and I’m hardly ever sick, so I’m a baby about it, like a Victorian age child dying of consumption that just wants to be carried out to the garden one last time. I haven’t been this sick in years, and I’m entertaining the possibility that I may have coincidentally come down with something else that became symptomatic after the shots. It would be a big coincidence though. Home Covid test was thankfully negative
I’ve been telling myself it’ll abate soon, but when I woke up this morning even sicker than I’d been all week I was seriously bummed. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Flu is rampant right now and it can take a couple of weeks for the vaccine to ramp up your immune system (even assuming a good vaccine match). The last time I got the flu it was a.) a bad case that really laid me out and b.) came just a few days after getting my flu vaccination. I’m afraid it’s totally possible to get unlucky in this way.
Hope you feel better soonish .
Wow, that is a bummer. Hope ya feel better sooner. I don’t think I will ever forget the year I got the B-strain the one year I skipped getting a flu shot.
My sympathy for you if you did get some variation of flu.
It does sound like flu. Ugh. Hope you feel better soon.
Hope you feel better soonest. Your symptoms sure sound like the flu. I hadn’t had the flu since I was about 10 years old. A few years back I had a mild case long after I was vaccinated, only lasted about four days. Weird side effect, I can’t stand the taste or smell of beer anymore. 
Booze or wine, no problem, but beer is right out.
I had both my flu and covid shots the same day, about a month ago. Not even a sore arm. My wife split her shots two weeks apart because her MD asked her to be in a test group for the flu shot. She got $120 when she got the flu shot, another $120 in 30 days. Each week for twelve(?) weeks, she gets $10 for answering a one question survey on a phone app: Do you have any flu symptoms? Y/N. Easiest money ever.
Yep, at this point I’m almost sure it’s flu. I’m not going to get a test because it’s too late for antivirals ( a full week after exposure) and there are logistical difficulties ( I don’t feel well enough to drive and I don’t want to expose anyone by asking them to take me.)
But i finally realized what happened. I got the shots Tuesday and felt kind of crappy for a few days, with a sore throat, chills, but not much fever and a halfway decent appetite. Then, on either Thursday or Friday - I honestly can’t remember, I decided I was going to bundle up and take a walk. Shortly after I got back I felt really bad suddenly and I got the fever, chills, everything. At the time I just thought I overdid it.
Now I really didn’t go out much last week, so I’m pretty sure I got infected at CVS while I was getting the shot, I had to hang out at the pharmacy counter for about 10 minutes waiting for the shots, and then I had to wait another 15 before I could leave- which is their policy but in retrospect, a bad idea.
My husband tested positive for covid antibodies right after getting his first dose of vaccine. We’d isolated, and he had no possible exposure except:
Sunday he gave platelets at the Red Cross
Monday he got vaccinated at a big center.
At the time, the red cross was testing every donation both for antibodies to the spike protein and the nucleocapsid protein. You develop the first after either getting covid or getting vaccinated. Your only develop the second after exposure to covid. The next time he gave blood (two weeks later – you replace platelets quickly) he tested positive for both.
He was asymptomatic, so no big deal. But he caught it rather giving blood or getting vaccinated.