Autism and the Covid Vaccination: anyone been vaccinated?

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Both I and my wife have had the first shot of the vaccine. I had the Moderna vaccine and my wife had the Pfizer vaccine. They used a microscopic needle and you could hardly even feel it. My arm was sore for about a day. My wife experienced the same. The second shot has more intense reaction. Should probably plan for a day of down time after receiving the second shot.

I received the first dose of the pfizer vaccine almost 2 weeks ago. I live in a residential program for adults with developmental disabilities which is why I was eligible. My arm was slightly sore at the injection site that evening but was better by the next morning. The evening on the day after I started to feel like I was about to get a really bad cold but I was fine the next morning. My roommate felt light headed a couple hours after getting her first dose.

Many of the staff at my program are already fully vaccinated. Several had to call out sick the day after getting their second doses due to symptoms like headaches and fevers. So I'm planning ahead for the probability of being sick the day after my second dose. I'm really grateful and lucky that I'm getting it. I'm hoping that eventually some of the restrictions at my program will be lifted. For instance, there are no visitors allowed anymore, even outside visits with immediate family members.

For me the vaccine cannot come soon enough....I'd like to be in less danger from people not wearing masks.

My bride and I got our first shot on Feb-22. The Pfizer vaccine. We were both characteristically serious frivolous.

She's amused we're supposed to go back to get poked again on the Ides of March.

They asked me whether it was okay to inject it in my left shoulder. I just said "Anywhere above the waist!"

We got the Pfizer stuff. My bride and I both experienced very fast and very painless injections. I chose not to watch the needle go in and was surprised when they told me the injection was complete--I wasn't even sure they had started. She watched her injection and assures me the needle went in and it really was fast and painless. The next day she had a side-effect--she was tired. I had no side-effect, except we both agree that if you press on the spot where they injected, it is slightly tender. (And my arm only feels *slightly* sore and *only* when I press on it.)

I'd say this shot was even easier than a flu shot! And not even in the same league as a shingles shot (those made my arm SORE!).

I received my second shot of the Moderna vaccine yesterday. I experienced NO adverse reactions to the second shot. It had even less side effects than the first shot.

Had 1st shot last Thursday. There were very mild side effects.

I am the sensitive-to-medication type as well, so I get that concern. Although I've been OD'd on meds by unknowing or ignorant healthcare providers, I have never had a problem with vaccines (asides injection site soreness), nor have my children (one AS, one sensitive NT). In any case my very-sensitive-to-meds-NT dad and my less-sensitive-to-meds-AS mom (both late 70s) are scheduled for their 2nd Pfizer shot tomorrow. The 1st dose was fine (sore arm like flu shot). For the 2nd, they are prepared for malaise for a day afterward. We'll know more by Monday.

Few people are more suspicious of medicines than I am, but if I'm offered the Covid jab I'll almost certainly take it. They've now injected millions of people with it and reported side effects pale into insignificance compared to the effects on some people of catching Covid-19. The jab might make you feel a bit ill for a day or two, but it's unlikely to do anything worse. The chances of anybody dying or suffering permanent damage from it are probably about the same as the chances of being killed by a tangerine. In context, if you so much as go for a walk then you could be maimed or killed.

I don't see any indication that they're making it compulsory in any country I know of (though I don't follow the adventures of every country on the planet). Best guess, they might start banning jab-refuseniks from public transport, public places, and jobs, but it'll probably take them a long time to do all of those things, so I don't think there's a lot to worry about in the short term.

I had the first dose of the Moderna vaccine recently. From what I have come to understand, the Moderna vaccine tends to give a bigger initial dose than the Pfizer, and so there tend to be more reactions to the first shot in the case of the former. I experienced symptoms within the range of benign and normal (headache, runny nose, moderate first-24-hour fever, 7-day-later swelling in the arm lymph nodes).

They were debating whether they should give me the vaccination at first when I got to my appointment, since I've had severe allergic reactions before (though not to a vaccine). However, I am glad I could get it. Respiratory infections tend to hit me hard and I was afraid of COVID. My side-effects seem to be worse than everyone else I talk to, and still what I experienced was no worse than a head cold + a single bee sting. Totally worth it in my case.

My mother is getting the shot tomorrow.

I got vaccinated recently and it was fine. Jut got a headache and felt a tiny bit off but no more than I would for a cold. My arm was also for like a day but it felt like the sort of ache you get when you exercise so nothing too crazy.