vaccine

[cellio]

After the first vaccine dose, my arm was sore and I was a bit tired that day, but that was it.

This second dose is kicking my butt. I got it Thursday, and my arm is still sore and I'm still feeling tired and a little fuzzy-brained. Fortunately no other symptoms, but I do hope the ones I have abate soon! (Friday was not one of my more productive days at work.)

Weird thing on Thursday: after giving me the shot (which hurt more than the first one), the person commented that my skin was really tight. I said "you saw me relax my arm as instructed, yes?". Yes, I did. She was commenting on my skin, not my muscles. I've never heard of that before. She wondered if it was because it was pretty cold that day. Shrug? (I don't know if that accounts for the extra pain.) I was deliberately not looking, so it's not like I saw the needle coming and had an instinctive reaction.

Comments

[goljerp]

Huh. Interesting - neither time was I told to "relax my arm". On the other hand, I made it very clear from the start that I am nervous around needles, and so I was going to look away from the very start, and I didn't want to know when they gave the shot -- I didn't even see the needle at all. In both cases they mentioned they were cleaning the site with rubbing alcohol (I presume) (which obviously I felt). Maybe my arm was already relaxed?

Anyhow, sorry about the symptoms. Hopefully they're better today.

[cellio]

I have a thing about needles too, and warned both people about it. Maybe I was tensing up the second time and that's why I got the instruction (this was before the alcohol swipe, not during the shot), or maybe they tell that to everybody but the first one didn't? Don't know.