Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines. A lot of older adults also need protection against another risky winter virus, RSV.

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines – and a lot of older adults also need protection against another risky winter virus, RSV.

Yes, you can get your flu and COVID-19 shots at the same time. Don’t call them boosters — they’re not just another dose of last year’s protection. The coronavirus and influenza are escape artists that constantly mutate to evade your body’s immune defenses, so both vaccines are reformulated annually to target newer strains.

  • EscanortheArrogant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Last time i got it, i didn’t feel great for a couple days, did you notice anything? I will probably try to get before the weekend, just in case.

    • Ele7en7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      I got the Pfizer covid shot and the flu shot about a week ago and didn’t notice any symptoms at all.

    • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Pain at the injection site, of course. (I got the Moderna shot this time. Most of the COVID shots I’ve gotten were Pfizer and man were they the most painful vaccinations of any sort I’d ever had for the longest. Moderna is nowhere near as bad, but still a little worse than the flu.) Aside from that, I didn’t notice anything, really.

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Mine have gotten better every time. The first one was fucking miserable. I felt like I had broken glass in my joints and I got absurdly large pimples/boils on my back and chest. I got a milder version of the same with the second and third ones. I think this was shot number 8 (?) and it was just a bit sore at the injection site. Use the muscle before it gets sore, just raise your arm above your head whenever you think about it and you don’t get that lasting pain there.

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Got the Novavax, no symptoms of any kind. The pharmacist recommended that one for that reason. Got the flu shot at the same time.

    • thrawn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’ve seen a lot about this one being better. For me (I got Pfizer’s brilliantly named comirnaty) it was about the same if not a little bit worse. ~24hr of feeling feverish, significant body aches, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, vague feeling of unwell the same and next day. Was fine the day after that though.

      These always treat me quite poorly. After my original second shot I was vomiting and felt truly horrible. But it hasn’t really improved since the third. Every time, I remember the incredibly low rates after the first vaccine, and lament what could have been.