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COVID19 - To Vaccinate or To Not Vaccinate

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  • Posts: 9,382 Member
    Some doctors and nurses are better with needles than others. I've had a few that stung and some I didn't feel.

    yes that is true.

    But also some substances sting more than others, regardless of technique of giver.

    and sometimes you just hit a sensitive spot and sometimes you dont - Ive given exactly the same things to the same person using the same technique - and sometimes it just stings more than others.

  • Posts: 25,763 Member
    Some doctors and nurses are better with needles than others. I've had a few that stung and some I didn't feel.

    I think this is true. I get the flu shot every year and some I barely even feel while others are much more painful (still relatively low on the pain scale, but not at all pleasant). Same with blood donation and other types of needle sticks. Some people just seem much more skilled than others.
  • Posts: 105 Member

    My husband has had his first dose for almost a month now. He hasn't had any communication from the mothership nor is my 5G signal boosted at home. He also didn't turn into a zombie. I really thought something cool would happen. :'(

    Dang! Sorry about your luck! You’re scheduled for yours soon... maybe your dose will come with signal boost or new hunger for brains! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you! Keep an eye out over the next couple months, with no long term studies it could take up to 6 months for either of you to sprout a new baby arm at injection site! Keep us posted!
  • Posts: 25,763 Member
    ccrdragon wrote: »

    Prepare yourself for the disappointment... My wife and daughter have been vaccinated for 2 months now (they both work in a hospital so were first on the list) and I got my first dose last week and none of us have experienced anything from the vaccines - heck, my arm was sorer from the flu jab last fall than from this one.

    I had kinda hoped for an extra arm or eye (or heck, even a boost in the WIFI signal would have been nice), but nothing.

    My mom and brother have been vaccinated (they're both in health care) and they too are mutation-free.
  • Posts: 5,340 Member

    I think this is true. I get the flu shot every year and some I barely even feel while others are much more painful (still relatively low on the pain scale, but not at all pleasant). Same with blood donation and other types of needle sticks. Some people just seem much more skilled than others.

    yeah I had a welt/lump for a week with the flu shot last fall, but the years before that I had nothing. I did not feel them much. Now the shingles vaccine literally BURNED going in both times so I knew that one was a doozy no matter who did it.

    The first Pfizer stick I got was absolutely painless. I did have a sore arm from the actual dose I think for a few days but other than that the stick was easy. I expect the second will be also.

    I get stuck annually for blood and sometimes it's just random but I have learned that when they don't hit it right NOT to let them dig around but tell them just to get a new needle and stick again.

    I also have given sticks to my cats in the past for fluids and you it's definitely easier on them with very sharp needles like Tesuma (sp) and thinner walled ones. There is a whole industry behind needles... LOL.
  • Posts: 25,763 Member

    That's just because the government hasn't activated the chips yet. Wait for it.
    My husband got Moderna and I got Pfizer, so there's going to be REAL trouble when our chips are activated.*

    *satire

    I'm picturing something like Rock'em Sock'em Robots once your opposing chips are activated!
  • Posts: 3,177 Member
    J72FIT wrote: »
    I am grateful that wearing a mask does not bother me. Do I love it? No. At the end of the day is it a deal breaker? No...

    I have a tried many, many different ones to find something I felt comfortable in. TBH, I sometimes forget I’m wearing it driving by myself when I’m in a car (yes, I’m that dork) or when I’m in my office at work with the door shut). I’ve gotten used to it. When we had to start wearing them, I never thought I would.
  • Posts: 3,177 Member
    Which is, by the way, another lie. You could totally eat it and it wouldn’t hurt you.

    But I’ll bet it wouldn’t taste that good. 😉
  • Posts: 1,155 Member
    I've had the flu once as an adult. It was miserable. Much worse than I remembered from childhood. Spent $200+ on Theraflu. That was more than ten years ago, I've never missed a flu shot since, and I've never had the flu again. I know luck plays a role in that, the flu vaccine is less effective than the covid vaccines. But it stacks the deck heavily in my favor. I really don't like feeling crappy, this is a cheap, easy, and safe way to avoid it.

    Every year I would get sick, be miserable, and promise myself that "next year I will get the shot". And then I never did. This past fall there was a big push on for everyone to get their flu shot and my doctors office had a walk in clinic so I did get it, hopefully I will keep it up from now on.
  • Posts: 163 Member
    I've had the flu once as an adult. It was miserable. Much worse than I remembered from childhood. Spent $200+ on Theraflu. That was more than ten years ago, I've never missed a flu shot since, and I've never had the flu again. I know luck plays a role in that, the flu vaccine is less effective than the covid vaccines. But it stacks the deck heavily in my favor. I really don't like feeling crappy, this is a cheap, easy, and safe way to avoid it.

    I wouldn't wish flu on my worst enemy. Not sure which was worse...the 104 degree fever for multiple days, the infection afterwards that caused me to cough up green stuff for over a month, the impetigo that caused sores from my nose to my chin. And I'm a fairly healthy person overall. I wanted to die.

    If COVID is "just another flu" (PSA, it's not), no thank you. I'll get my vaccine for both.
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