Had mine on Saturday. Still part of me hates that I had to have it but it’s done now. AZ, no sore arm, nothing at all.
I’m high risk for blood clots but so far so good I’m 6 weeks post vaccination with the Astra even though it took me 4 weeks to feel better from it.
Had mine yesterday afternoon. Had the best night’s sleep I’d had since lockdown. Feel like shit now though. Supposed to be popping down south for work now but going to drive it tomorrow early morning and hope I’m a bit better.
4 weeks Viv? Blimey wish I could’ve given you some of my immune system. It didn’t touch me at all but a mate of mine was more or less asleep for 3 days? What the hell is it all about eh?
I'm not going to have a argument as this thread is not about right or wrong but who had what. It is very likely that people who aren't vaccinated won't be able to do certain things. Travel abroad without restriction springs to mind which is nothing new. I had several vaccines, like yellow fever, in the past to be able to travel to certain countries. It remains to be seen if other restrictions are being imposed and I think it's very likely.
The blood clot issue is a non issue from a statistical standpoint alone, if anything it's certain eu leaders once again behaving incredibly poorly, whether for political point scoring and gain, or simply showing exceptionally poor leadership. Their messaging on vaccination has been horrendous, those are the issues. There have been just 30 reported cases of people who have received a vaccine which have then gone on to suffer some form of a blood clot, just 30. 3000 people in the UK suffer some for of blood clot every MONTH, so 36000 annually. Therefore from the UK population of 68,000,000 that's a 0.05% chance of experiencing a blood clot annually whether you've had a vaccination or not, whoever you are that's your chances in the UK every year there have been over 17,000,000 Astra vaccinations issued as of a few days ago, So 30 reported cases out of that is 0.00017647058823529413% It's frankly such a small number it falls well below what would be expected had the last 2 years never happened, covid wasn't a thing and the only connection to the word Astra is a car I'm not sticking up for pharma, definitely not for Johnson or sage, but Cmon, an issue with blood clots? 30 cases? https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...azeneca-jab-and-should-we-be-worried-12246472
I noticed something similar on my fitness watch. Vaccine at 14:45 Friday. By 02:00 Saturday I was shivering. By 05:00 I was sweating. My heart rate whilst asleep was about 10bpm higher than usual. Saturday daytime I was weak, tired, aching and had a headache. Paracetamol based painkillers made me feel a lot better. Still not feeling great when I went to bed on Saturday night, but at about 7am Sunday whilst I was asleep my heart rate dropped by about 10bpm back to its usual rate and I woke up a few hours later feeling fine, apart from still having a slightly sore arm at the injection spot.
Pretty much spot on how I felt last night and this morning. Arm aches, bit of a headache and just feel a bit worse than usual, but alright
Absolutely this ^^^ The EU are envious and just want to pour cold water over our spectacular vaccination program. The fannies! If 40 million people blew their noses I’m fairly certain 30 odd would have blood clots shortly after. Sheer coincidence, nothing more, nothing less imo... But the EU have decided to seize upon these minute numbers and get all hysterical. I find it quite funny tbh. I get my first shot on Friday, probably the ‘super dodgy’ Astra Zenica. Bring it on
I survived an unprovoked pulmonary embolism in 2019 and there were no concerns giving me AstraZeneca. When I saw this story on BBC News a few days ago, I was a little concerned, but following my first AZ vaccination a few weeks ago, I haven't had any side effects remotely close to how I felt in the run up to the PE (before I knew I was suffering a PE).
Good to hear, unfortunately it just looks like the green eyed monster once again from certain political leaders within the eu who are having to somehow justify to their electorate why the uk is so far ahead and they're so far behind, not least in some cases due to the reluctance of vaccine take up caused by the outright incorrect statements made by Macron and Merkel regards the over 65s It's petty, it's delaying vaccination, it's nothing short of small mindedness on behalf of the EU and specifically some leaders within. Apparently they're now going to go away and come back on Thursday, by which point since they decided to halt Az vaccinations yesterday the uk would have done circa 1.2m more vaccinations by Thursday It beggers belief https://news.sky.com/story/who-reas...-experts-look-into-blood-clot-claims-12247481
I have had 5 clots 1 in my shoulder 3 in my lungs 1 in my neck I too was anxious when I heard the news because they are not fun extremely painful and I have had nothing remotely close to how they made me feel either after having the vaccination I felt unwell because of my immune system being low I developed my clots because of picc lines not flushing properly
Thank goodness you did survive it Marky, i'm sure I am not alone in wondering what your pre- PE symptoms were but i understand if you don't necessarily want to share on here.
I didn’t have leg pain I felt unwell and had a stitch in my side that didn’t seem to feel better and thought I would go and lie down but when I lay down the pain was even worse than standing up and then I couldn’t breath and called 999 hanging onto my chest of drawers. The operator encourage me to get downstairs and undo the door. I was in agony I couldn’t sit or stand and hyper ventilating by the time the paramedic and doctor got to me. I was tachycardic and terrified. I was given an injection I don’t know what and taken to hospital I don’t really remember much more The pain is awful
Had the AstraZeneca (Oxford) one yesterday. Firstly I woud just like to say that the teams running this process and logistics have done brilliantly. I was at Epsom, and it was calm, efficent, helpful and friendly so hats off to these guys and gals. Felt a bit rough this morning with a headache and shivers, but my main reaction was it seemed to trigger my arthritis so was as stiff as buggery (easy, easy!!) this morning. Otherwise all good and happy to have had part one done.
I was going to write an abridged version of the events, but that would underplay the seriousness of it, which I wasn't aware of at the time, then remembered I shared it in another forum in a thread about near misses, which was like therapy at the time, so I've copied and pasted it with a few tweaks. Sorry in advance for the long post! Spoiler: Are you sitting comfortably? I don't get ill very often, certainly not in my adult life, just the odd headache and cold, but in February 2019 I had my first chest infection. It started out feeling like I had pulled a muscle in my lower-left chest, which I put down to my weight lifting, until one night it quickly escalated to being extremely painful and I couldn't breath properly. This went on for a while and eventually the pain subsided and I called 111 in the morning to be on the safe side and after answering their questions they sent paramedics. They couldn't find any severe issues and weren't overly concerned with my readings and I wasn't displaying the same symptoms as during the night, so they left and we went about our day. Eventually, the pain came back much worse than before and breathing was hard, we were out at the time, so my partner took me to A&E. After blood tests, an x-ray and many hours, I was prescribed two weeks of antibiotics for a lung infection and sent home. It was pretty much business as usual for me after that weekend and the antibiotics cleared it up. End of July 2019 I had the same build up and pain in my chest/lung area, albeit more painful than before, so my plan was to get through the night and go to a walk-in centre and explain what happened in February, but the issues progressed to the point I couldn't move and could barely breath, so we called 999 this time and they sent an ambulance, the paramedics checked me over and took me to A&E. As painful as everything was, I expected to have the same tests and then be sent home with antibiotics. The first thing that was strange is when they took the initial blood sample, they put a cannula in my arm this time and after the chest x-ray they told me I had suspected blood clots in my lungs, one more than the other, which a CT scan confirmed. At the time I didn't understand what this meant, but knew it wasn't good. Unlike February, I was on oxygen, as my breathing was really struggling, and ended up on morphine for the pain. The scariest part was after feeling comfortable for quite a while in A&E and after the diagnosis, out of nowhere I came over funny and nearly passed out. I remember the commotion as the nurse and doctor rushed me to the resuscitation unit. I don't recall passing out. Not going to lie, I was scared, as I didn't know what was going to happen and had no control over it and felt helpless. The nurse injected something into my stomach and the doctor had something prepared in my cannula and then he got another nurse to fit a second cannula in my other arm, which they administered more morphine into. The doctor didn't administer what he had lined up. I thought he had a prepared a clot buster, but my partner thinks that's what the nurse injected into my stomach. I had to stay in hospital for a few days and was signed off work for two weeks. An ambulance ride, morphine, CT scan, and being signed off work were firsts for me. It was around four weeks after returning to work before I tried some light lifting at the gym to ease myself back in and I found that tough to begin with, not so much painful, but my cardio suffered and I got out of breath very quickly. After various follow-up appointments they diagnosed an unprovoked pulmonary embolism, because there was no defined cause, such as a DVT and it didn't happen after a long flight or long bed rest. I'm now on anticoagulants for life, which comes with its own risks. The other option was to not take anticoagulants, but they explained that that is a bigger risk for me, due to the chances of having another PE, because I've had my first one, it was unprovoked, I'm male, and over 40. I'm one of the lucky ones, as a PE can kill and some people don't have any symptoms or warning signs like I did, before it takes their life.
