I had the first vaccine about a week ago. I am 56 and was able to get in with the law enforcement group (support personnel). I checked with my rheumatologist by phone and she said it was ok (I am on 5mg steroids per day). About 8 hours after shot, I developed severe chills, fever, nausea, & headache. The next morning my temp went up to 103.6 because my Tylenol wore off during the night. I was sick for about 2 days. On day 5 I developed redness & itching at injection site (started about size of quarter went to about 4 quarters in size), that lasted a few days. I saw my rheumatologist yesterday and she was ok with the side effects and said to get the second shot. I’m scared and not sure what I will do - I hear the second shot is worse. By the way all of my co-workers only had a sore arm. I had covid in July and am hoping my body thinks the first shot was really the second.