• fubo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A vaccine booster puts me out for a day with chills and a mild fever (Advil helps!) so I really would prefer not to find out what an actual infection does.

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        1 year ago

        The vaccine gave me, at worst, a sore arm for a couple days. The actual infection knocked me completely out for 3 days. I had enough energy to microwave and eat food a couple times a day, and sleep.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, so by extrapolation, the actual infection would cook my brain. Good safety tip.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, my infection was 4-5 months after the last booster too, so there’s even a chance I still had a little bit of protection going in. No long term effects thankfully, though exercise was really rough for a month or two afterwards, which really worried me.

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        1 year ago

        Same. Then covid got me. Was sick for a week but had the worst shortness of breath that finally got better after a year of inhalers.

        On the other hand, my friends felt like it was just a bad cold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        1 year ago

        I had COVID very early on. It had me coughing enough I started coughing up blood. It took over a year for the chest pains to clear. The vaccine barely felt like a speed bump, by comparison.

        My second case of COVID was like very mild flu. Enough to notice (and so test for) but didn’t really take me out. (Yes, I still quarantined despite that)

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        I was in this boat all while living in a major city during peak pandemic. I was even the designated errand runner and grocery-getter while mask mandates were still all over the place and never caught it.

        3 years later and we’ve moved to an isolated rural farmhouse with no neighbors and few interactions with other people at all end then I get it lol