Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
So I went and got the 4th shot. I decided that I just didn't feel comfortable at WSOP with thousands of degenerates all breathing and talking in a small room, where I'm stuck for 12 hours per day, for multiple weeks.
With my second and third shots, I got a pretty bad and long-lasting round of side effects. About 13 hours after both of those shots, I got very tired. I then woke up about 3 1/2 hours later (both times) with fever, extreme body aches, and extreme fatigue. These bad side effects lasted at high level for two full days, with the fever peaking around 102 for the second shot, and 103 for the third shot. Both times, about 65 hours after the shot, things started to rapidly improve, and after another 12 hours or so, I was all better. I did not take any pain relievers during these reactions, as I wanted the vaccine to work unhindered.
I assumed I would experience something similar this time, which I was dreading.
I got the 4th shot at 5pm on Wednesday. This time, the tiredness came earlier. I felt "low energy" like Jeb Bush about 3 hours in, but not sick at all. About 6 hours in, I was very tired, and went to bed. I still wasn't sick.
I woke up about 9 hours later, at 8am yesterday, with very bad fatigue (despite having slept all that time) and very bad body aches, but a temperature of only 99. Good sign?
Nope! Within a few hours, the temperature rose to 101, 102, and later, 103. The body aches and fatigue got worse and worse. I also had chills, presumably from the fever. I was barely out of bed the entire day, and was in lots of pain. I was falling asleep on and off, but the pain kept me from sleeping well. Also, I had been sleeping so many hours, that also made it more difficult to sleep through this.
Finally, I had enough. It was 9pm yesterday, my fever was mid-102s, and the body aches and fatigue were worse than ever. I also had a tension headache from being in bed for so long. I couldn't stand it anymore. I grabbed 3 Advil and gulped them down.
Within like 20 minutes, I got really hot, which is usually a sign that my fever is abruptly breaking. Indeed, it was. Very soon my temp was back down to 100, and the body aches had moderated somewhat. An hour later, the fever was gone. I was still tired, and had a full night of sleep again.
I woke up today. No fever at all. Body aches still there, but still not nearly as bad as yesterday. I'm a little fatigued but not that bad. So the Advil was the difference. It stopped most of this in its tracks.
I then wondered if this was a mistake, and perhaps I interrupted the immune response. However, what little research exists on this suggests that I didn't. It's believed to be a mistake to take pain killers BEFORE the shot, or immediately after, but not after the side effects start. In this case, I took the Advil 28 hours after the shot, and about 14 hours after feeling the bad side effects.
This will likely be my protocol with vaccines in the future. I just couldn't stand it anymore. I wasn't going to go through another full day of this shit.
In any case, hopefully I don't get a breakthrough case at the WSOP, or I'll feel really stupid.