Coronavirus.

staffordjas

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Didn't sleep too well, arm is very sore so I woke up every time I moved it and also had a splitting headache. Touch of nausea too. Not too bad but not fun.
My achy arm after the first one wore off after a couple of days. Then the bad pains in head and arm after 2nd Pfizer, which kicked in 12 hours after the jab, only lasted a few hours after taking paracetamol. Hope you're feeling better soon @SketchyMagpie Worth a bit of discomfort to know you are on the way to good protection :)
 

Alee

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About 3 days after my 2nd jab I found walnut sized lump in my breast. It’s highly unlikely it was there before as I certainly would have noticed it . Anyone else found any lumps ?
 

littleme

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About 3 days after my 2nd jab I found walnut sized lump in my breast. It’s highly unlikely it was there before as I certainly would have noticed it . Anyone else found any lumps ?
Please get it checked out @Alee.... The Dr's are seeing people, it's not just over the phone consultations.

Husband had Pfizer, he had a lump about the same size on the back of his neck/head. Internet suggested it's where a gland is. Him being him, would not go to the Dr's, and it disappeared after about 2 weeks....
 

Alee

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Yes Iv seen about glands on google . There’s a few articles about it.I assume my lump is the same. I’m going to give it a few more days to see if it goes down. I’m sure it’s smaller this this morning!
 

littleme

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This, on the 2nd April...


The carers not too good, no sleep last night & today he's generally achy & fatigued, also recons he has a lump on the right side of the back of his head (thinks its a swollen occipital lymph node) , that hurts, paracetamol isn't touching it. His ear feels funny too.
 

SketchyMagpie

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Bit disappointing that the AZ jab is only 60% efficient against the new strain, after two doses. Pfizer does better at 88% but both are far weaker after only one dose, it seems, at around 33%. Still feels like there's a lot of uncertainty about how this will all pan out over the summer, even though BoJo the Clown is determined that all social dostancing measures can be dropped in a few weeks.
 

Chick

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About 3 days after my 2nd jab I found walnut sized lump in my breast. It’s highly unlikely it was there before as I certainly would have noticed it . Anyone else found any lumps ?
I was warned a small lump might be a poss side effect when I had my Pfizer jab this week and not to panic if I noticed one.
Fortunately the only side effect I suffered was a slightly sore arm for a day
 

tek-monkey

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Still feels like there's a lot of uncertainty about how this will all pan out over the summer, even though BoJo the Clown is determined that all social dostancing measures can be dropped in a few weeks.

By the people I saw in town today it may as well be finished, one woman was getting shitty in Costa because they came and moved her table slightly to keep them spaced apart properly. Apparently they don't care in the other Costa, I felt like telling her to feck off back to that one then! I sat outside, had the dogs so had to but weirdly I'm still a bit wary of being indoors.
 

staffordjas

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By the people I saw in town today it may as well be finished, one woman was getting shitty in Costa because they came and moved her table slightly to keep them spaced apart properly. Apparently they don't care in the other Costa, I felt like telling her to feck off back to that one then! I sat outside, had the dogs so had to but weirdly I'm still a bit wary of being indoors.
There was a woman in the pub we were in the other day , who first of all kept walking around with her mask dangling from one ear. Then continously getting up & down and wandering around the pub without it on at all. :(

Was going to book us in for Kingston lateral flow tests now that we are out and about more , and hubby's getting close to returning to the office. But.......Whilst in the pharmacy picking up our medications today , noticed a leaflet advertising home testing kits . Asked about it and now in possession of 2 boxes of free NHS Covid-19 Self Test (Rapid Antigen Test) kits to use at home instead. :)
 

rudie111

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SketchyMagpie

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Was going to book us in for Kingston lateral flow tests now that we are out and about more , and hubby's getting close to returning to the office. But.......Whilst in the pharmacy picking up our medications today , noticed a leaflet advertising home testing kits . Asked about it and now in possession of 2 boxes of free NHS Covid-19 Self Test (Rapid Antigen Test) kits to use at home instead. :)

You can order them online, too, if that's of any help.
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
 

EasMid

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It still amazes me how many people are unaware of the importance of home testing & how easy it is to get the test kits & report the results.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard ministers say “get a test even if you’ve got no symptoms” on the news etc yet they’ve failed dismally at publicising how useful these tests really are, especially now that everyone is mixing more.
 
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cj1

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There are also a sizable chunk of the population who don't get tested as the financial hit of isolation would be financially crippling having there income slashed from around £350+ per week to £95.85. I do wonder how the government can support someone on furlough for over a year at 80% of normal income up to 2.5k yet not an isolator for 10-14 days.
 

tek-monkey

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There are also a sizable chunk of the population who don't get tested as the financial hit of isolation would be financially crippling having there income slashed from around £350+ per week to £95.85. I do wonder how the government can support someone on furlough for over a year at 80% of normal income up to 2.5k yet not an isolator for 10-14 days.
If they made everyone live on SSP for half a year there would have been riots, but when it only hits so many at once and richer people generally have jobs that pay sick they know it's less of a vote destroyer.
 

Cue

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Bit disappointing that the AZ jab is only 60% efficient against the new strain, after two doses. Pfizer does better at 88% but both are far weaker after only one dose, it seems, at around 33%. Still feels like there's a lot of uncertainty about how this will all pan out over the summer, even though BoJo the Clown is determined that all social dostancing measures can be dropped in a few weeks.

I wouldn’t worry just yet. These vaccines are actually much more effective in general than the flu jab, etc as it is IIRC.

We also has much lower effectiveness stats to start with, and they went up and up over time as we had more data, didn’t we?

There’s also a caveat in the stats for this variant currently in that Pfizer was given to a lot more frontline workers due to the logistics, whereas AZ was used for a lot of the elderly and vulnerable population - and naturally it’s going to be more effective in a non-vulnerable individual as their immune system is more up to the task.

Realistically cases aren’t going to go down right now because we’ve barely vaccinated the groups that actually spread it - shop staff, kids, younger office workers, etc. And of course surge testing in areas where it’s present will result in a bias in the case numbers. But deaths are through the floor and we have I believe under 1000 hospitalised right now… so honestly I’m not seeing a huge amount to worry about just yet.
 

Thehooperman

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There was a woman in the pub we were in the other day , who first of all kept walking around with her mask dangling from one ear. Then continously getting up & down and wandering around the pub without it on at all. :(

Most people in the Conwy establishments we visited over the weekend were masked and socially distanced and in one pub the staff moved people back to their original tables if they tried to move to get into the sun.

There was one group which ignored most of the rules and grew to about 10 people so the staff made them leave. The group included a certain Les Battersby from Corrie, don't know his real name apart from Bruce as his mates kept shouting at him across the beer garden. Obviously "celebrity" makes you immune to COVID!
 

proactive

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Most people in the Conwy establishments we visited over the weekend were masked and socially distanced and in one pub the staff moved people back to their original tables if they tried to move to get into the sun.

There was one group which ignored most of the rules and grew to about 10 people so the staff made them leave. The group included a certain Les Battersby from Corrie, don't know his real name apart from Bruce as his mates kept shouting at him across the beer garden. Obviously "celebrity" makes you immune to COVID!
I've had the misfortune to encounter him a couple of times over the years. Dickhead doesn't come close.
 
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