Hello @bcsurvivor2 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I can understand your frustration and empathize with you.

Can you share how long it has been since your second vaccine?

Hi bcsurvivor2, I'm in the same boat as you, I got the first shot of Moderna on August 25, 2021 at 3pm. At 8pm I started having kidney pain. I had kidney and back pain for 10 days. My pain seemed to be in 2 places, my kidneys and RIGHT buttock. The kidney pain seemed to come and go, but my RIGHT buttock was constent. I went to the ER because I didn't feel right. I ended up having elevated White Blood Cell count (11.4) and a trace of blood in my urine. The doctor said that wasn't high enough for a kidney infection so he gave me an MRI. The MRI said I had a 2mm kidney stone in my LEFT kidney. The doctor didn't know why the pain was on my right when the stone was on the left, he gave me FloMax for the kidney stone and sent me home. Its been 5 days since the ER and the pain has increased immensly in my RIGHT buttock and it's shooting down my leg. I've never had nerve pain but t feels like nerve pain, it's a constant, shooting, sharp pain.

I tell you all this because I'm wondering your story, did you have any problems with the first shot? And how are you since you posted this? My whole family is vaccinated and had no problems. I was a hold-out on the vaccination because I don't like putting anything foreign in my body. I am scared to death of getting the second shot, I probably won't get it.