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MAC and getting the COVID vaccine
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 29, 2021 | Replies (163)Comment receiving replies
I had both pfizer doses more than a month ago and was beginning to feel more secure and letting up a bit. Just riding the elevator with other people and a friend stopped by. But now I'm anxious and thinking I should isolate again. Here's why.
First I'm not sure I correctly received the second dose. The vaccinator was an er doctor who told me she volunteered because she had been treating covid patients for almost a year and with every shot she gave she felt she was keeping someone out of her er. I thought that was so moving but then she fluffed the shot and had to do it again. There was no peirce just pressure so maybe she forgot to take the cap off? In any case she had to get another syringe. This time I felt the prick but she had trouble finding the spot to put the band aid. Thinking about it, when do er doctors ever give shots?. Still it's not brain surgery so she must have put the vaccine in my arm. Right?
But then I had no reaction at all to the second shot. I had a sore arm after the first one but nothing at all after the second. I envy anyone who had a reaction. Nausea? Chills? Fever? Jealous.
My body did not create the antibodies to pneumonia after vaccination and I was given the shot 3 times. Apparently my body is not good at creating antibodies.
Finally I read yesterday thst there were 89 breakthroughs in Minnesota. A breakthrough is when a vaccinated person comes down with covid. There were breakthroughs in several states and the author pointed out that the vaccine is 95% effective not 100% so some vaccinated people will still come down with the virus. While it's a small number of vaccinated people who have caught it compared to the large number of vaccines given, it's still scary.
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@rits My husband had both shots of Pfizer vaccine. The first time he had a slightly sore arm. The second time he had nothing. You are probably good to go! irene5
Not necessarily. From what I've heard from friends all over the country, the consensus seems to be that Pfizer vaccine generates much less reaction than Moderna. But even with Moderna, some of my friends had no reaction whatsoever.
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Rita - Please relax - 89 breakthrough cases in MN out of 869,000 fully vaccinated people = .01 % getting sick - that means so far the vaccine is 99.99% effective at preventing infection. Further, only one has been hospitalized and none have died. Remember that the people vaccinated so far are the most at-risk of serious illness or death (over 65) and the most exposed - health care & education workers.
As for ER docs giving injections - it happens all the time. And I, who am an injection wimp, felt only a pinprick from both of my injections when given (though I did later have an immune reaction & sore arm.) A number of people here had no particular symptoms after the Pfizer vaccine - it seems more reacted to Moderna. If you are concerned about whether you are effectively vaccinated, please check back here later - I have turned to someone to learn how to go about getting an antibody test & what to do if you didn't form antibodies.
I have been following this closely because BOTH of my RN daughters in MN have had to tell vaccinated people that they tested positive and we all got very worried when it happened. But both report that the post-vaccine infections are being monitored very carefully, and serious infection is virtually 100% protected by the vaccine.
Also, at 95% the effectiveness of Covid vaccine is far above the seasonal flu shots (40-70% depending on the year) and even the new Shingrix vaccine (80-90%.)
I am in a community now where all the people I regularly associate with are fully vaccinated, and we still are being careful. And masking fully & distancing when we are out in public. This is as much to protect others if we are silently carrying the virus as because we are worried about getting sick. Also, eating out seems like the riskiest activity we normally would do, so we eat during off-peak hours, and only in places that offer outdoor dining or well-distanced indoor dining & have their staffs properly masked & cleaning things.
Sue