@Mags , Only the usual sore arm Mags , l must say that l am amazed by
the number of OFC members that seem to to be unaware of what having
an injection is like?
Have they got to middle age without having an injection ??
Thanks for your good wishes !!
Donkeyman! 
NSW has just reached the 90% double dose vaccination target today and counting.
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My son had his booster yesterday,all was well until 4 am this morning, he woke me up with a terrible fever, headache, aching all over his body, I then had to go out to the car to get his covid test, he felt so bad he thought he had covid,
ā¦luckily it came up negative, never mind the main thing is, heās alive thank God!
This covid is certainly causing so much havoc as is the injection and booster to safeguard us, I know a few on here are dealing with covid stricken relatives, my thoughts and prayers are very much with you all.
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Will people really go and have this fourth vaccination they are on about in the spring?
Will people really have another vaccine each time there is a new variant?
Can that be safe?
I know with animals they can over-vaccinate, so what about humans?
I hope your son is feeling better this morning Paulineā¦
And a Happy Christmas to you from the Foxā¦xx
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Bless you OGF, heās still in bed feeling terrible, but, Iām sure it will pass, you take care also, donāt overdo that running, I just know you canāt wait to get back out there, I keep have visions of you crawling up the wall,
Merry Christmas to you both!.xx
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If I am offered the Pfizer as a 4th they can stick it where the sun donāt shine. My booster was the 3ml of Pfizer which knocked me for 6 the 3 days following the shot and Mrs LD was as good as bed ridden for 4 days and now over 2wks later she is still not as she was before the boosting shot. Neither of us suffered any after effects with the 5ml Oxford AZ, so the Pfizer must be the problem and wont be our 4th if offered. However, if offered the Moderna, I might go for the shot.
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Sorry to hear that LongDriver, I hope you are both feeling better.
Try and enjoy the festive period, and I agree with you about the commercialismā¦Itās getting well out of hand, and not just at Christmas either. We are bombarded day and night by people wanting to sell us stuff, not least the government. How did it come to this after those heady days in the fifties when life seemed so easy and simpleā¦?
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The point about the 50ās into the 60ās was we went out & about making our own merriment without resorting to retail therapy as many do today. Just look at all the dance n music venues that have closed down to become some new retail outlet. Life now seems to revolve around shopping and clubbing. Sex too seems to have changed for the worse IMO ā¦ it seems to be expected almost as much as it is freely given ā¦ now where the thrill in that 
. Donāt take any notice of me coz Iām in reminiscing mode LOL
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Itās funny you should say you werenāt too well after. I wasnāt poorly but after about 2 days and lasting a week my skin itched and prickled all over. it felt crawly under the skin. It drove me nuts but I didnāt dare scratch.
I imagine a lot of people wonāt want yet another booster.
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Theres no real way of knowing the real reason though LD.
It may have been because your body had had enough of 3 doses pumped over just a few months, or perhaps mixing AZ with Pfeizer didnt suit you even?
Then you might even be offered another entirely different one again in the spring!
I really do worry about such a serious cocktail of new drugs injected into us over such a short time.
They only tweak the Flu one once a year as new variants come.
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No one should worry, if you have put enough years in already, was told that before any Pandemic. 
Had to listen to a lot of Bravado.
My first two shots were AZ but my booster was Pfizer, after the booster my arm was sore for about thee days whereas after the AZ I donāt recall any particular reaction, if my arm was sore it was only on the day of the jab. They all seem to affect people differently but I would happily receive Pfizer again (AZ is a thing of the past) and would try Moderna without any qualms.
Never mix your drinks, retrospectively, you will never be able to work out which one was responsible for the āPukeā reaction.
Yes I had that too, but then many thing make me itch, especially on my arms for which I take Telfast 180 daily, but that med did not help me with the Pfizer shot and even now I have a hot red and angry rash remaining on one arm.
Morti, itās funny you should say that about the itching. Where did you itch - if I may ask - was it at the injection site, or all over?
I ask because I had the the most dreadful itching and tingling all over my scalp and down the back of my neck to my shoulders.
It was waking me up night after night, and it got to the point where I could barely comb my hair, and couldnāt have the hair dryer on anything but ācoolā because it burnt my skin.
Really weird it was and it was 3 weeks or more before it went.
Never had that in me life before.
Then the Flu jab made my arm swell over about an 8" area. It went crimson and burnt like hell. Had to see the doc in the end.
@Mups ā¦ sounds very like your itching/tingling/prickling Mups.
Mine was all over and kept me awake at night ā¦ like you I found getting over warm made it worse but mine wasnāt as bad as yours. It didnāt feel like āburnā.
At worst, it felt like someone lightly stabbing with pins.
I tell you, at the time if it had been my face or mouth Iād have been a little concerned.
It was the Pfizer booster did it. The two earlier Astra Zeneca shots didān t do the same thingā¦ it suddenly stopped but every now and then, even now, I can feel odd little tingles, just localised, then they vanish after a few minutes.
If thereās a 4th booster and its Pfizer I might think twice.
How weird.
I am ever so glad you said this Mort as I hadnāt heard of anyone else saying it so wasnāt sure to connect it with the vaccination or not, but too much of a coincidence now.
I think all the vaccines effect different people in different ways, just the same as Covid itself does.
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