Got Pfizer shot #2 yesterday afternoon. Other than a very slight sore spot at the injection site (less sore than on shot #1), I’ve had no reaction at all. My wife has been feeling tired all day, and her arm is more sore, but she isn’t running a fever or anything.
Now approaching 24 hours since first Pfizer shot. Arm started to become slightly sore a few hour after the shot, and still is, but very slight and hardly noticeable. Not sore at the exact point of injection (the deltoid muscle right at the shoulder) but in the arm slightly below.
No other symptoms. I might have experienced next-day fatigue but I basically slept through it so wouldn’t really have noticed!
3ish hours in from 2nd dose of Pfizer and feeling somewhat tired and fuzzy headed. Not sure if this is an actual reaction or not, seems like it came on awfully quick compared to the first dose for me. Maybe a hint of muscle soreness in a major muscle (is covid butt a thing?
) injection site isn’t even a little bit sore. I think I’m going to go eat something light and see if that helps with some of this
My quads and glutes were sore the next day, so yes, Moderna gave me covid butt. “I got the shot in my arm, why does my butt hurt?” It took about 18 hours to show up, though. By the next morning (two nights post injection) it was completely gone.
Received by 2nd Pfizer vaccination 72 hours ago, less sore arm than the first one. Other than that nothing.
The side effects are hummin’ along, aches and pains comin’ on strong, not as bad as the last time, nappin’ on through to a new sunrise
Started a little less than 24 hours post dosing. other than the little I felt yesterday. got up this am feeling good enough to be two of me but around 12 or so I just ran out of steam and got all achey and sore
Got my first AZ shot on Thursday at lunchtime, at the pharmacy in my office building. I was fine for about eight hours, then late evening I was hit like a ton o’ bricks. Huge chills that had my teeth clattering, and my muscles all hurt. When I went to bed, it felt like my pyjamas and bedsheets were made of sandpaper. Didn’t get much sleep, and was in kind of rough shape the next morning. All day Friday I was wobbly but managed (thankfully I had a work-from-home day). Hit the sack early, and when I woke up on Saturday, I was basically back to normal. So pretty much one solid 24-hour period of what I guess was my body fighting off the dead COVID virus. If that’s even a vague representation of what it feels like to have the actual virus, it’s pretty terrifying. But one day of it is a small price to pay, considering the risk of the alternative.
My second shot isn’t scheduled until the beginning of August, but the pharmacist says they’re hoping to cut the gap from sixteen weeks to twelve, depending on how Canada’s supply issues play out over the summer, so fingers crossed, maybe by mid July I’ll be fully vaccinnated.
Got my second Moderna shot about 10 a.m. today (six hours ago). Felt a bit sleepy about 1 p.m., and napped for 2.5 hours! Normally I’m never able to nap. Now, five hours afterwards, the injection site is starting to hurt a bit and I feel a bit crappy and queasy and am not going to prepare the chicken teriyaki I had planned for dinner.
We had planned to go out for a nice lunch tomorrow, but I’m going to bet that’s off and that more sleeping is in order.
Yep, more sleeping was in order. I slept ten hours last night, though I was awakened in the middle of the night by a bad case of chills. I got up and took Tylenol, got out an extra blanket, and went back to sleep.
This morning I feel like I was drug through a knothole backwards, and my arm feels like someone wearing an army boot kicked it. Other than that, I’m great!
Just kidding. I know that my antibodies are all revved up and spoiling for a fight, should I inhale any virus, and I’m glad of that.
I had my second shot 3 days ago. Within 2 hours, arm pain and headache started. The day after the shot, I felt muscle soreness and fatigue. I had three bouts in the first 48 hours of feeling queasy but they weren’t severe and went away within 20 minutes or so each time.
The second day after the injection was the worst, and it was still pretty mild. I felt muscle soreness and fatigue, all over, but very prominently in my back. It felt like I was currently holding a moderately heavy weight up, and was getting tired from that. Like, it didn’t feel like soreness after exercise, it felt like fatigue and pain from sustained, ongoing, effort. I felt a little better lying down. Very tired and sore standing up.
I had some trouble getting to sleep three nights due to discomfort. Not my arm, just general pain in my body.
I let myself have a little extra sleep due to the fatigue.
I never got a fever, never got really ill. It seems to be over, but I’ll update if I have a late-appearing symptom, as happened last time. When I got stronger fatigue several days in.
Also, as a bit of an experiment, from which I draw no conclusions because it is just one experience, I got the second shot in the opposite arm. I had the first shot in my dominant arm, and second in the non-dominant. My arm was less sore, and it lasted less time, the second go round.
Curiously, I had some arm pain in my dominant arm as well, similar to what I had before with the first shot, but milder. That was pain in my biceps muscle, several inches below the injection point. None of it was more than mild pain, and although it’s still there, it’s so faint it’s barely noticeable. It’s different from the general muscle soreness I had all over.
2nd Dose of Moderna yesterday. I have the arm soreness, and fatigue. The fatigue set in about 8 hours after the shot. I spent most of today sleeping. I also have mild joint aches. Kind of like a mild flu.
After posting the above and thinking I was over the worst of it, I spent the afternoon having major chills and aches. I finally got out of bed and took a prolonged hot shower, trying to get over the shaking chills. It worked; I went to bed right afterwards and trapped the heat under the covers and went to sleep for a couple of hours.
I’m still feeling sickly, but I just made myself eat a bit of toast and ham.
The first shot didn’t do any of this. With that one, I just felt slightly under the weather and had a sore arm.
Mistermage came home today after having his 2nd shot of?? He didn’t care enough to note it.
He took an hour and a half nap. This is not unusual on a Wednesday. 
I’m wondering how he’ll feel the next week or so. He was kinda rough after his first shot.
(I had the one shot J&J, arm hurt, got my period early and it lasted longer than normal BUT I’m perimenopausal and have had sketchy odd cycycles this year. And my arm almost always hurts: frozen shoulder I fixed via PT… but the statin I’m taking exacerbates my tendons when combined with my nightly tiny dose of Nitrofurantoin… my shoulders pop out of my joints a little… nothing like “popping” in place and loving feeling better.
But sometimes it takes a while to pop into place and that sucks.)
This is me, after getting it yesterday. I even went for a run this afternoon, which was lucky because we’re getting rain the next few days.
Amazon has started offering vaccinations on-site this week, but I’d already had the first shot and imagined there’d be a lot of bureacratic rigamarole with getting the second, so I just went back to Walgreens.
Yeah, I got my second shot at the mass vaccination site at Ford Field in downtown Detroit, a 25 minute drive for me even though I could have tried to get the second one closer to home. The line was about a third the length of the first shot line I went to on Good Friday.
One reason I went back there is because the National Guard was giving out the shots. Most impressive to see those men and women at work serving their country. Extremely well organized.
Second shot was “worse” than the first, but still not bad. The shot itself hurt much more, (the first was the least painful I can remember). Still not a big deal. Arm soreness about the same as the first then all afternoon felt a bit tired and maybe like a fever was coming on. Did measure several times just to see but temperature never went up.
Also had some leg pain, but that was probably from spending too much time cranking a new treadle lathe the weekend before.
Been a week now so pretty sure anything that is going to happen has.
First off, welcome to the board @veryfrank. Nice to see a new face, even if you are Canadian. 
What’s with the 16 week gap between shots? Is there a shortage of vaccine in Canada? I think in the US it’s always been 3 weeks.
Thanks @mordecaiB, glad to be here.
Yeah, there are supply issues in Ontario and in Canada generally. We don’t have any vaccine-making capacity here, so we’re at the mercy of foreign manufacturers and all their delays and hitches. President Biden has loaned us a pretty big whack of AZ, as it hasn’t been approved south of the border yet and might otherwise go to waste. I’ve seen different reporting on the long gap: I’ve read that it would be risky for cancer patients or older folk, but I’ve also read that there’s no problem with the delay. As I said, if supply is steady, the pharmacy was hopeful that some weeks could be shaved off the wait.
Here in Ontario, AZ was approved to be distributed through a number of pharmacies. The minute risk of blood clots scared off a lot of folks in the current age group for shots (55+ I think) who decided to wait for a chance with Pfizer, so the province dropped the age cohort to 40+ last week and Gen X, as the meme says, pounced on appointments like they were Lollapalooza tickets. Today the province has announced that, should the projected supply of the various jabs arrive on schedule, they hope to be able to offer a first shot to everyone 18+ by the end of May.
Thanks for the info, I wasn’t aware Canada had a supply shortage. Hopefully the US can help out as it sounds like we have enough of the other vaccines combined for our use.
Good luck, hope the second shot is easier on you
especially since you’re from Canada! Honestly, I don’t know what gets into @mordecaiB sometimes.