Awful chills, fatigue and brain fog after second COVID vaccine dose, clearer a week later
- Condition
- Long COVID
- At worst
- Not stated
- Ill before improving or writing
- Not stated
- Last post
- Jul 2021
In their words
- Condition: Long COVID
r/covidlonghaulers
In context ↗ - Now: Somewhat better
after about a week, I started feeling clearer and actually started feeling more normal than I had before
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Summary
A person in a long-COVID community reported feeling awful after their second COVID vaccine dose, with chills, fatigue, brain fog and bad poops, the works. After about a week they started feeling clearer and more normal than they had been before the shot. They described feeling bad for days after the vaccine as normal and expected.
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What they tried
What they credit
Their words about each treatment
- second shot · Helped
After my second shot I felt AWFUL. Chills, fatigue, brain fog, bad poops, the works!! But after about a week, I started feeling clearer and actually started feeling more normal than I had before!
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Approaches: Vaccination
Their path
They say too little about how ill they were at each step to draw it on the severity scale, so the steps are listed as they describe them. Dates are when they posted.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2021-07 | felt awful for about a week after the second COVID vaccine doseAfter my second shot I felt AWFUL. Chills, fatigue, brain fog, bad poops, the works!!In context ↗ |
| 2021-07-26 | started feeling clearer and more normal than before the shotafter about a week, I started feeling clearer and actually started feeling more normal than I had beforeIn context ↗ |
Adverse events
- COVID vaccination as treatment“After my second shot I felt AWFUL. Chills, fatigue, brain fog, bad poops, the works!!” In context ↗ Side effects
- COVID vaccination as treatment“After my second shot I felt AWFUL. Chills, fatigue, brain fog, bad poops, the works!!” In context ↗ Gut side effects
Symptoms mentioned
Their words about their symptoms
- Brain fog
Chills, fatigue, brain fog, bad poops
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