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COVID Vaccine and Shingrix shots

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Dec 16, 2021 | Replies (10)

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@bmaquino

I am male over 50 with heart, kidney, arthritic, & allergic conditions as well as overweight & no excercise. I had my 1st Shingles vaccination last 3/5/21 and I suffered awful flu-like symptoms for 2.5 days! I treated that with 3 doses of acetaminophen PM, hydration & plenty of bed rest. I then had my 1st Pfizer anti covid-19 vaccination on 4/10/21 and just had muscle ache around the injection site which i treated with an ice pack and a single dose of acetaminophen. The aching lasted almost two days. I had my 2nd Pfizer dose on 5/1/21 but only had very, very slight muscle soreness around the injection site & mostly forgot about it. I felt no change in my health since then.

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Hello @bmaquino and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Thank you for joining to share your experience with both the Shingles vaccine and Pfizer vaccines. That is wonderful to hear that you were able to weather the symptoms and come out fully vaccinated!

Were you skeptical going into one or both vaccines?