# What's For Dinner Tonight: Episode 2021 – A New Hope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015 "2021-01-20T19:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4063
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015/4063 "2025-05-06T02:13:13Z")
You can have the comparison, direct from the 'dope! Shot # 1: > [@So I Have Shingles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-have-shingles/1001448/93): > > Shingrix first shot update: 24 hours later. Last night was… unpleasant. Much higher fever than earlier, head and body aches, alternating between sweating and chills. Sleep was, as to be expected, crap. Got up this morning, added more NSAID, and back to about where I was in my prior report: achy (especially injection site) with some head and body pain (which may be just as related to the horrible sleep), and low to mid range fever. But no more sweating/freezing cycles. With only a little … Shot # 2 > [@So I Have Shingles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-have-shingles/1001448/103): > > I had my second shot on 8/30 (Friday). Friday night was fine, mediumish fever before bed though (around 99, up from my usual just shy of 98F per my doctor). Saturday? All suck, all day, fever went to just over 101 after which I made myself stop trying to make sense, took more pills, a shower, and tried to sleep. Today the fever is reduced back to the mid 99s, but my energy comes and goes with it. Fever spikes? Frenetic energy. Fever drops? Exhaustion. Still, if the experience of my firs… So, yes, second shot was worse, lasted a bit longer, but was just really unpleasant rather than dangerous, and thankfully resulted in just a few stupid/sloppy posts. Short version, for both I was fine for 8-10 hours other than a low to medium fever, then during the night it ramped up, left me feeling crappy the whole next day, and then improved pretty rapidly for the first shot, +1 day for the second. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-dinner-tonight-episode-2021-a-new-hope/931015)._