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Mine were pretty awful so I can understand why Mups collapsed. I would say of family and friends it's 50:50 for little or no reaction vs feeling quite unwell for 2-3 days. They do all recover afterwards. But everyone has a different journey with AZ. Pfizer is pretty much nil reaction from people I know who have had it so I'm glad they gave it to people that were most vulnerable.

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Sorry Foxy, MSM did not frighten me, I just assumed it was common sense to produce a vaccine as soon as possible. If we had waited years for the usual vaccine testing considerably more people would have died! I know how vaccines work & I also know that no pharmaceutical company would risk selling a vaccine that will produce numerous deaths.... but that doesn't mean that a few may not suffer adverse effects.
I know that you have decided not to take any risk, and that is your choice, but I was merely pointing out that most of us take some risk with the medicines we take daily.
Vaccines stimulate your immune system to produce antibodies, which don't stop you catching the illness, they just give you a much stronger chance of beating it quickly...... so even if you have inside knowledge that the vaccine only works for 6 months & we have to have further jabs, I doubt that we will suffer cumulative effects & assume AZ will continue testing just to be sure.
Most scientists will tell you that the reason for vaccination is to continue preventing large numbers of people infecting others, in the hope that the disease will become less of a threat & eventually nothing to worry about!
Remember the smallpox vaccine that left many with scars on their arms. I am sure people were scared by that, but thank god they took the risk because you never hear of the disease now!

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I am sorry to hear that I did feel rough for a couple of days but when I compared it to having Covid, there was no comparison. I had a friend who had a swollen painful arm after Pfizer but that could be down to the nurse who gave the injection, rather than the actual chemicals

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We all have different pain thresholds so some people may feel they are suffering more than others, but I agree that very few suffer for more than 3 days. That is why people are advised to contact their GP if they don't improve after 3 days.

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It's nothing to do with pain thresholds Twink. Some people are reacting others are not. You don't develop a fever because you are more sensitive to pain.

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It will be a reaction if it's swollen. Moderna has a more common "moderna arm" reaction.

The main thing is that although some people react badly, 26 million people have had these vaccines and we haven't heard of 26 million dying.

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All this talk about a fever ! Just because there’s a slight elevation that’s not a fever . I had a temperature of 103 F when. I had pneumonia . That is a fever!

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Friends reported 101. I am the one who had a slightly raised temperature. I think just over 100 is when its considered fever territory.

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Indeed .....

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The Covid people say you should seek advice if you are over 38C. I was 37.9C but a couple of paracetamol put that right, just as they would have reduced pain!
Yours was 39.4C Zuleika, so you were very sick!