I had COVID19 in March 2020, still have the antibodies. Donated gallons of blood that was used to help COVID patients. Is our Govt smarter than the Cleveland Clinic?
Roll them bones, dude, and good luck to ya.
Eh?
Dude. I've talked with you for a year and a half now. You are mainly going to what you want to do or not do, in this case. Not going to try to change your mind. Just wishing you luck with your gamble, as every decision regarding personal health care is a gamble. So, roll them bones, as in throw the dice. You're in command of the throw. Hope you don't come up "craps".
Cleveland Clinic is fairly reputable?
Sounds reputable enough to have a valid opinion. Whether it is the correct opinion is hard to say and will not be known for years. Seriously take what you think is
your best shot, whether it is taking
the shot or not. You are not exactly one of the uninformed, knee-jerk political followers on the board, even when we disagree. You usually, actually have reasons. Not only that, but you are probably not going to affect anybody else personal opinion of what they should decide at this stage of the game on this subject, either.
What I did, certainly does not matter. I had my reasons and am different from you physically and in age, having something like 26 years on you. Both of us had the virus. Both tested positive for the anti-bodies, though I no longer have them or at least not in amounts of therapeutic value anymore. I will tell you this. Some of my lack of energy seems to be abating since the vaccinations. Getting it has had a benefit to me, at my age, in my personal health. That doesn't mean it will help you a bit, though it might. You don't know for sure. Take your best guess and have peace with it.
Outstanding. Which vaccine did you get?
Moderna lot 010A21A, back in March and early April. If thinking of doing it, I still recommend going into the VAERS database and wangling for the one with the least adverse reactions. I had a 100 Degree fever that came up the next day after first shot. Took 2 ibuprofen and about a quart of chicken noodle soup (a highly ignored miracle drug, I have used to treat all fevers over the years) just like when I had the 102 degree fever for days with the COVID-19. Fever after shot was gone within a few hours. I had no reaction after the second shot. Still not recommending any course of action for you.
Problem is I never had a fever or cough but it messed up my stomach and appetite something fierce. Made me tired too. Would like to avoid that if I truly don’t need the shot.
I had the whole ball of wax, including a racking cough for the week and have had a recurring productive cough ever since. No appetite and food didn't taste right if it had much taste. Forced the chicken soup because my mom forced me when I was a kid, and it did help, even way back then. On the shot, I had absolutely no stomach distress or change of taste, but loss of appetite when having a fever is a given.
I Didn’t have a fever.
I thought fever and sweating out was the crap in your system was the most common way to get rid of colds, flues, and other diseases we pick up and eliminate. If you got rid of it, just through the southern tract, I bet you were God Awful. Mine was more of a respiratory thing.
It wasn't that either. I just literally had no appetite.
I wish I had had your COVID-19. I had the Honk Kong flue as a kid, back in the 1960s and had the swine flu in the mid 1970s, both far worse on me the COVID-19, and both with more stomach and gut problems, but COVID-19 was a rough one, just different. That is the weird thing about this one. It seems to have hit different people that got it differently. With this one, most of the stomach distress I had, felt like it was from the racking cough, that would hurt like hell in my lungs and bronchial tubes. Pretty certain that cough is why I still have the occasional one shot recurring cough, to this day, but like I said, my body is different now than it was at 40. If I was like you, with
your experience with the virus, at
your age, I would probably have had a decision to make also. With me, the decision was easy. I didn't want it that bad again, as I am not getting any younger than I am right now. You probably got the margin to go either way, but who knows?