Caution: Vaccination noise, if you are not interested, please scroll on! Two days ago I got my booster vaccination from Biontech/Pfizer. Some other noisers will also get theirs today or in the next few days. And because I don't only want to look at the positive side, I would like to report on the side effects. In the first few hours after the injection I felt euphoric, which was also the case with the first two shots. After a few hours, this turned into extreme tiredness. I slept almost 14 hours during the night. Yesterday was a day to forget. My arm hurt around the injection site, so I couldn't raise my left fist. The tiredness was crushing and the thoughts somehow clouded. So I went to bed quite early and slept for another 10 hours. This morning I woke up quite refreshed and feeling better. My conclusion: Yes, it can be exhausting but it also has great benefits. I've heard of worse side effects, and of people who didn't notice anything at all. Maybe I'm somewhere in the middle.
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Drinking plenty of water or sports drinks will help prevent all that. I never had any side effects with my second shot. I had the grogginess with n the first though. Never had the extreme pain in my arm but I did have that feeling like someone had knuckled it.
I wish you're feeling better now!
Everyone reacts to the vaccine differently :) I'm feeling bad now because that's how many hours I'm sleeping every day for the last two weeks... For no reason (maybe weather but that's not a valid reason 😅).