A Day In The Life.......

[disneydream06]

Well, maybe it's a night in the life...

Tuesday morning I got my second Shingles vaccination.
After my first vaccine my arm was sore for 4 days and that night I got the chills.
Well, last night I started to feel chilled again, and so I messaged a former coworker/nurse to ask her if it was okay to pop some Tylenol. She said it should be okay.
I stood up to go upstairs and get the Tylenol and as soon as I stood up, I started having severe shaking chills.
Have you ever tried to get two pills out of a full bottle when you were shaking so bad?
I finally got a couple of them.
Then I Was shaking so bad I couldn't type on the computer, so I bundled up in a blanket and just kind of napped the night away.
By morning I wasn't shaking any more, but I still felt like crap.
I went to bed a little early and managed to sleep most of the day, which was surprising after sleeping so much of the night.
I'm not feeling too bad now, just a little drained.

On a side note, I asked the nurse who gave me the shot, so, I am like covered now, or is it kind of maybe...
She told me the old shots were about 35% effective, but the new ones are now 98% effective.
So that's great news, but getting through the side effects is a bitch. :o :o :o

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In The News...

I saw this headline...
"Roku Beats Q3 Estimates, Stock Plummets on Weak Outlook"

Seriously, how does that make any sense?
I think the only thing wrong with this country is Wall Street. :o

Comments

[kaishin108]

Oh wow Jon, you really had a bad reaction. I hope you are fine now.

So now there are new Shingles vaccinations? When did they come out?
I am wondering if I got the new or the old, hmmm.

Hugs, Helen

[disneydream06]

I am feeling much better now.
Still just kind of drained.

I am not sure when the new one came out.
But I am glad I got this new one if there's that much of a difference in the two.

[kaishin108]

Thanks, I am going to research it. that is a huge difference in preventing shingles!

That is one of the things I dread, getting that, shudder!

Hugs, helen

[disneydream06]

Yeah, I really hope I don't get ever get it. :o

[wickedlittletown]

Urghhn these are unpleasant side effects. I would have probably freaked out.

[disneydream06]

I think it helped that I had similar symptoms with the first one, just not quite so bad.
And if I remember correctly, she did say, you can have flu like symptoms. :o

[wickedlittletown]

I didn't had any side-effects from the first and the other two just caused a heavy arm.
The second was the worst, I had pain for a couple of the days and could barely move it.
But my mom had flu like symptoms after her fourth shot.

Yeah, you know that it was caused from it and that it would go away, yet these are awful side-effects.

[disneydream06]

This was from my shingles shot.
I haven't really had too much trouble from my Carona shots. some discomfort that I blamed on the shot, but don't know for sure. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wickedlittletown]

Speaking of 'rona: How many shots do you need?
We're told that we need three if we work in the medical field but some say that if we had it, that counts as one shot as well. (confusing I know)

I'm so lucky that I didn't caught it a third time after my third shot D:
I first had it - then after months I got my first shot - then I have it again like half a year later - had the second and the third

[disneydream06]

The Clinic I work for has only required the first two shots.
I am getting my third booster on the 17th.
This is the one with the Obicron(sp?) variant.

I haven't heard that having it counts as a shot. :o

[wickedlittletown]

Maybe that's an European thing *shrugs shoulders*
We had a lot of discussions here about if it counts as shot or not, and if how long. Some said six months, then later other experts said that you're immune to only for three months.

It was hella confusing, since you never knew when you should make an appointment and then they suddenly decided to split it into "people in the medical field" and the rest of the people.

[disneydream06]

It really would be nice if there was some standardization of information. :o

[wickedlittletown]

Indeed, wouldn't be so confusing. At the moment they all seem to agree that you need three shots but let's see what they will say in a few months.

[disneydream06]

Well, I will be up to shot No. 5 in a couple of weeks. lol........

[wickedlittletown]

Wow, that is one more than the government wants the eldest of the eldest to have here :O

[disneydream06]

Do you guys have the one that is supposed to help with the Omicron variant?
That's what this new one has in it.

[wickedlittletown]

That could be possible. I would have to grab my vaccine book and check the name of it. It was one I've never heard of before.

[disneydream06]

Not sure if it's just Pizer that has it so far.

[wickedlittletown]

It was a longer name but then you know how fancy companies can get when it comes to naming their pharmacies.
Super long fancy name you can't barley pronounce the first time you read it 😂

[disneydream06]

And just like other businesses, you pay for that name too. UGH...

[wickedlittletown]

Of course. The bigger the name, the bigger the sum you've to pay.
This is so ridiculous.

[disneydream06]

We need bigger names. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wickedlittletown]

We should create our own big name.
The ultimate name :O

[disneydream06]

Jon is not going to cut it.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thewayne]

Shingrex? I didn't remember it being a two-shot vaccine, but it's been a few years since I got mine. And I didn't have a reaction, interesting. Did you have shingles previously?

Wall Street is definitely a plague on the country, constantly demanding improved profits quarter over quarter.

[disneydream06]

I don't remember if it was Shingrex or something else.
Thankfully I haven't had shingles before, and now I hope I never will. :o

[thewayne]

When I had what must have been the second of my pneumonias when my immune system collapsed and my wife and I knew what was going on (90%+ certainty but no official medical declaration, that was another 4-6 months out), we wanted to come to Phoenix so I could recover in warmer weather at lower altitude where the breathing is easier, except my mom was recovering from shingles!  We didn't want me in my poor immunological state to have to also contend with that!

[disneydream06]

I had to go look, I did get Shingrix.

Yeah it was a good thing you stayed away from your mom at the time. :o
Hugs, Jon

[infinita_veritas]

Ouch! That’s quite the reaction! Are you feeling better??

[disneydream06]

A lot better now, thank you. :)