Pathetic pincushion DUmmy can't decide: 4th booster?

[BannedFromDU]

Star Member left-of-center2012 (34,070 posts)

I don't know if I should get the fourth shot

I had no trouble with the first two Moderna vaccines but I had one week of severe low back pain after the booster.

Yes, I googled it and that is one of the side effects.

Fortunately I had some muscle relaxers and oxycodone from a previous leg injury.

The back pain lasted about a week and much of the time I spent either lying in my bed or sitting in my living room chair with pain so severe it was difficult to get up and move around just to go to the bathroom or get something to drink/eat.

Having had that experience I don't know that I want the second booster.

However I am 76 years old with multiple medical problems so I am probably a prime candidate for that shot.

I don't know what to do.

How sad, to be that old and still need to virtue signal on DU when you clearly don't want another dose of Dr Fauci's Old Timey Soothin' Syrup


The vaccines are literally killing this old turd, but DU is full of advice:

Star Member Native (4,606 posts)
1. Get the Pfizer booster instead!

Some epidemiologists are saying that it is better for you to mix it up when it comes to the boosters, and they are recommending people who have had Moderna get Pfizer and conversely.

As I understand it, the side effects are not as dramatic with the Pfizer as they are with the Moderna shots.

I had Moderna for all four, and I was down for the count for a full day with that second booster. My husband who also had Moderna for his first three shots decided to go the Pfizer route on this second booster. He didn't even get a sore arm!

Star Member Frustratedlady (15,744 posts)
7. I got my 2nd booster on Friday (Pfizer) and had no side effects...not even a sore arm.

It was so smooth, I didn't realize the nurse had given me the injection. She was good.

If you are concerned, talk it over with your doctor. I was so happy to get mine as I'm in my 80s.

And so on.

I hear Remington makes a good vaccine. One dose and you'll never worry about COVID again.

[SVPete]

I'll give this DU-member a clue for free. Get tested for anti-Covid antibodies. If the results are near or past the high end of what the test can measure, a booster is not needed and won't do much, if anything. I did that test (~$69) 6-7 months after my second shot of Pfizer (and ~11 months after recovering from Covid). My antibody level was higher than the test could measure, so I am unboostered. IOW, I did what I suggest, and plan to do so again at the appropriate time.

Reality is that besides creating antibodies, both recovery and vaccines also cause a B-cell response, the immune system's "long-term memory". So both are approximately equally effective in producing significant resistance, from antibodies and from the immune system "knowing" how to produce more antibodies. However, NEITHER create total immunity. IOW, whether recovered, fully vaccinated, or boostered, there is no zero-risk-of-getting-Covid option. And while recovery and vaccination both tend to make one less likely to have a serious case of Covid, endless boostering despite (or without) antibody tests is stupid and useless.

[BannedFromDU]

I'll give this DU-member a clue for free. Get tested for anti-Covid antibodies. If the results are near or past the high end of what the test can measure, a booster is not needed and won't do much, if anything. I did that test (~$69) 6-7 months after my second shot of Pfizer (and ~11 months after recovering from Covid). My antibody level was higher than the test could measure, so I am unboostered. IOW, I did what I suggest, and plan to do so again at the appropriate time.

Reality is that besides creating antibodies, both recovery and vaccines also cause a B-cell response, the immune system's "long-term memory". So both are approximately equally effective in producing significant resistance, from antibodies and from the immune system "knowing" how to produce more antibodies. However, NEITHER create total immunity. IOW, whether recovered, fully vaccinated, or boostered, there is no zero-risk-of-getting-Covid option. And while recovery and vaccination both tend to make one less likely to have a serious case of Covid, endless boostering despite (or without) antibody tests is stupid and useless.

     "Antibodies? Sounds anti-science to me. My internet friends told me to get the shot, so I'm waiting until the crushing side effects of my previous shot subside, then I'm getting the next shot. That, plus the six masks I wear on the one occasion I go outside to check the mail, should keep me protected from this latest version of the Cold." -  all DUmmies.

[ABC-2]

How sad, to be that old and still need to virtue signal on DU when you clearly don't want another dose of Dr Fauci's Old Timey Soothin' Syrup

I hear Remington makes a good vaccine. One dose and you'll never worry about COVID again.]/u]

Ha! Ha!  :hi-5:

[67 Rover]

     "Antibodies? Sounds anti-science to me. My internet friends told me to get the shot, so I'm waiting until the crushing side effects of my previous shot subside, then I'm getting the next shot. That, plus the six masks I wear on the one occasion I go outside to check the mail, should keep me protected from this latest version of the Cold." -  all DUmmies.

What no lanyard telling people to stay 6' away from you? Piker. 

[USA4ME]

First, I don't have to worry about my 4th shot because I never took the 3rd. Nor do I have any plans to do so. Easy solution.

Second, I always enjoy reading the primitives have one foot in the grave. TY!

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