I got my second dose of Moderna on Wednesday

[JPK]

The first dose I got about a month ago, I had no side affects at all. The second kicked my butt. About eight hours after receiving my second dose I started to feel a little tired and a little chill. I went to bed around 10pm. Around midnight I had to have been running a fever of 104 degrees. I was dizzy and my joints all ached. My shoulder where I got the injection was sore as if I had been hit with a bat. I spent all day yesterday pretty much in bed. My temp had gotten down to 100 but I was still pretty dizzy and a little nauseous. Finally feel better today. Just a heads up for those getting number two. Pay attention to your temps.

[empedocles]

1. How long between doses? Have u heard of any other 2nd dose complications?

[BlueIdaho]

7. A fellow I know on a guitar forum

Who got kicked for a loop the evening of the second dose. All sorts of GI trouble - coming out both ends with assorted aches and pains. The good news is, it lasted for a couple of hours and then he recovered pretty quickly. Next day, he was fine.

[Turin_C3PO]

2. Glad you're feeling better!

Yeah, I’m dreading the second dose because I’ve heard that the reaction is significantly worse than the first. My first dose left me with a sore arm and slight fever so I expect to get pretty sick from the second. But it’s better than possibly dying from Covid.

[empedocles]

3. I have a transient itch at the injection site. No swelling for my only [1st] shot

[brooklynite]

4. I plan to take the day off when I get my second dose...

[samnsara]

5. Holy crap! I've heard that about Moderna. Im due for my 2nd Pfizer next week...

[RobinA]

20. I Had My

second Pfizer a month ago and I had nothing but the sore arm. No more sore than the first shot. So it isn't a foregone conclusion you will react.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. A nurse told me the same thing yesterday.

She said to get myself some help after that second shot. I won't have anybody to help, so I'll just have to prepare by cooking the day before so I'll have food already and won't have to do anything the next day. She said Tylenol worked for the headache and fever and Zofran worked for the nausea. I'll be as ready as I can be.

[LizBeth]

19. I have read you do not want to take Tylenol or Advil because it lessens the vaccine.

[LuvNewcastle]

22. Thanks, that's good to know.

I wonder if aspirin is okay. The main thing I hate is the nausea, and I have plenty of Zofran for that. Everybody has told me that it lasts only for a day, so I guess I can put up with a headache for a day.

[LizBeth]

24. Ya... I never do headaches and feel the same about nausea, but I figure one day in bed then good to

go. Not looking forward to it and excited to be done with it.

[chowder66]

26. See my reply in #25

[chowder66]

25. This is only before the vaccine, not after you get it.

Pain relief medications like Tylenol and Advil are 'perfectly fine' – but only after COVID-19 vaccine, experts say. Avoid pain relief medications just before getting the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are 'perfectly fine' to take after, experts say.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/29/covid-19-tylenol-advil-vaccine-coronavirus-cdc-who/4290975001/

There also was an interview with a nurse who got the vaccine and said she had a temperature of 104 after the second dose and she took Tylenol or Advil and it helped bring the fever down. If it doesn't go down after some time you should go to the hospital. I don't know what "some time" means though.

[LizBeth]

27. Excellent information. When I got the first shot, I enrolled in a program app that contacted me

daily asking about the symptoms and how I was feeling. It was comforting to know I was being monitored and if there was an issue, they would contact me.

[chowder66]

28. That's really nice that they did that. I hope I get the same treatment when it's time.

[LizBeth]

29. +1

[JPK]

8. Second dose

The first shot was nothing. It was like getting the usual flu shot. I had no affects at at all. The second, wow. I have a friend who's 83 year old mon had no reaction to her second dose. I guess it depends on your body.

[JPK]

9. Also...

I forgot to mention, the headache. My headache was pretty severe as well.

[SPDem]

10. I got my second shot Wednesday as well

My list of symptoms is pretty similar. Yesterday was tough. Today is better but I'm still feeling chilled and weak and that dang headache is still there right behind my eyes. I pretty much figured it would be bad because the first dose gave me flu like symptoms too.

[Coleman]

11. Thur. was my 2nd Moderna

My wife has been telling me the horror stories, not unlike yours. Last night I was fine. Today, I'm really tired (fell asleep at work a couple times) and my entire body is sore. Temp and everything else is fine (cross my fingers). But I am keeping my trash can close.

[ismnotwasm]

12. Second dose side effects are pretty common

I had a sore arm on the first one. I went to work on the second day number two, after (I’m a nurse) and couldn’t understand why I felt so bad. (I kinda forgot about it, I didn’t side effects the first night)I turned around and went right home. Mostly tiredness and a whooping headache. Other nurses I know had fevers, chills etc. it’s your immune system activating

[LizBeth]

17. But no aspirin for that headache. Thanks for your story. I need to know.

[zipplewrath]

13. Seems more common in females

All but on woman I know that got the second dose had fever, chills, and a few had headaches. Of men, the most common symptom is a killer headache.

[LizBeth]

16. Interesting. I read older people not as likely. Two others are coming up on their second and one I

told I will schedule my second shot 3, 4 days after her so I can walk her dog the day she feels crappy then she can do mine.

[roamer65]

14. It's your body thinking it's a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

It’s gonna bring all the guns out, especially since the precise immune cells are primed and ready from the first dose.

[LizBeth]

15. I heard and pretty consistently too, but not that bad. Ah man. Mine is coming up in a couple weeks.

How old are you? I hear the older you are less likely to experience this. I do not think I am old enough at 60 but hoping. Thanks for the honesty. Just go to bed for a day or more, and try to sleep it out.

[mackdaddy]

18. My mom is in a COVID Ward. A Nurse there told me her 2nd dose knocked her down a day.

I talk to the nurse every day or two that is treating my 87 year old mom.

The nurse said that the second shot gave her similar symptoms to what you are describing. But of course way better than dying which she has seem plenty of in her job.

My Mother got her first dose of the Pfizer and was exposed to the virus two days later when someone else came into her assisted living unit and became positive.

Mom is recovering but has had a lot of mental confusion to hallucinations, but seems to be getting better but is still coughing up chunks as her lungs try to clear out. Been in the covid ward about two weeks now.

Will need to get better before Mom would look at her second dose.

I am not eligible to get my first injection for a few weeks, but I am ready for it. I am a little concerned as I have a first cousin who had a reaction to his first dose and his lips swelled up and they had to give in an eppi pen. He did not have any known allergies before hand.

[IBEWVET]

21. wife and I are getting the second in a couple of hours.

Not looking forward to it just glad to have the protection.

[beaglelover]

23. That's good. It means the antibodies your body built up from the first shot are

working. You should feel fine in a day or so.

[Initech]

30. That's exactly what happened to my brother after he got the second shot.

He said that it sucks but you get over it after a day or two.

[Hekate]

31. Thanks for the heads-up...

I’ll remember that if my name ever comes up for the #1 dose, which will hopefully lead to the #2.

Meanwhile, take care of yourself!