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What you have described sounds like SIRVA. You just need to find someone who has experience giving vaccinations. Seriously. One of my medical friends had the same problem. He didn't know what it was until he sought treatment from his physician. I had never heard of it either until one of our regulars on the retirement board described it.
Yes, it is SIRVA but when I went to the doctor he blew it off. Told me to take anti-inflammatories that haven't helped much at all. This is why I cannot bring myself to get the booster in my arms.
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Got my J&J booster Tuesday afternoon….no arm pain though I have been feeling tired and experiencing symptoms similar to a summer and/or head cold along with being more short tempered/irritable than I already am. Definitely not flu like since I’ve been able to get up from and out of bed…..the initial J&J shot back in late March had a 2 week delayed effect in which I developed tinnitus for a day and a half.
Got my J&J booster Tuesday afternoon….no arm pain though I have been feeling tired and experiencing symptoms similar to a summer and/or head cold along with being more short tempered/irritable than I already am. Definitely not flu like since I’ve been able to get up from and out of bed…..the initial J&J shot back in late March had a 2 week delayed effect in which I developed tinnitus for a day and a half.
I thought the booster for the J&J was either Moderma or Pfizer. Is there a J&J booster?
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News to me. I will notify J&J, FDA, Yale, Publix, Walgreens, etc among others, to stop misleading the public by using the word booster and/or booster dose with J&J:
News to me. I will notify J&J, FDA, Yale, Publix, Walgreens, etc among others, to stop misleading the public by using the word booster and/or booster dose with J&J:
The people here getting their "booster" shots--is it mainly at Dr.'s offices, or pharmacies? If at a pharmacy, did you need an app't.? I ask b/c I went into a Walgreen's yesterday to see if I could get a booster shot (preferably Moderna, altho I'd get Pfizer I suppose). The store was almost empty, & I was the only customer at the pharmacy counter. The pharmacist said they had the Pfizer vax, but refused to give it to me b/c I didn't have an app't.
Again, I was almost the only person in the store, besides her. And probably in the time she spent arguing with me & telling me why I couldn't get the vaccine then & there, she probably could've given me the vaccine! Is this usual practice?
So then I went onto the Rite-Aid site, & started to go thru the procedure to sign up for a covid vaccine. Tons of questions, & then I could only pick from 2 days that had so many appointments there were only a couple of times available.
BTW, this is in S.NH--I'm not sure if the whole state is like this. It just seems ridiculous that all the pharmacies are making it so difficult. Oh, & there's a new Covid outbreak wave in N. New England, BTW. We're constantly being lectured to get vaxxed, but why is it so hard?
We got our boosters a few weeks ago during "vaccine hour" which is every day before the pharmacy opens. We did not have an appointment but it may be that it's required now if things are busier.
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Made mine by appointment online, in advance, with the pharmacy inside Publix.
Possible in your case they were limited with the number of on hand supply doses that day and were reserving their remaining supply for those with appointments later that day.
I did my flu shot a week or two earlier just walking into a Walgreens with no appointment. I was turned away by CVS and Publix as a walk in earlier that same day; flu shots given by them by appointment only.
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Originally Posted by WoodyWW
The people here getting their "booster" shots--is it mainly at Dr.'s offices, or pharmacies? If at a pharmacy, did you need an app't.? I ask b/c I went into a Walgreen's yesterday to see if I could get a booster shot (preferably Moderna, altho I'd get Pfizer I suppose). The store was almost empty, & I was the only customer at the pharmacy counter. The pharmacist said they had the Pfizer vax, but refused to give it to me b/c I didn't have an app't.
Again, I was almost the only person in the store, besides her. And probably in the time she spent arguing with me & telling me why I couldn't get the vaccine then & there, she probably could've given me the vaccine! Is this usual practice?
So then I went onto the Rite-Aid site, & started to go thru the procedure to sign up for a covid vaccine. Tons of questions, & then I could only pick from 2 days that had so many appointments there were only a couple of times available.
BTW, this is in S.NH--I'm not sure if the whole state is like this. It just seems ridiculous that all the pharmacies are making it so difficult. Oh, & there's a new Covid outbreak wave in N. New England, BTW. We're constantly being lectured to get vaxxed, but why is it so hard?
End of rant.....
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