Interesting. I don't remember much about my first vaccine, except that I barely felt it. On the other hand, my second dose hurt! I felt the needle going in, and I felt the vaccine being injected. The first booster I felt almost not at all and, as I noted earlier, I didn't feel a thing with the second booster. What I recall specifically with the 2 booster shots is that the people doing the injecting first spent several seconds vigorously rubbing the injection site with the alcohol gauze, which probably helped to desensitize the area a bit. They also pinched the arm where they injected the vaccine while holding that pinch. The woman who gave me the painful second dose injection did neither of those two things. There is much to be said about technique.
Moderna booster is half the original thus the same 50 mg as Pfizer. Studies show it is better to have that. I think a 100 mg Pfizer would be just as effective as the original Moderna. (Moderna had a slight edge, probably due to having more juice in it)I am also surprised they didn't drop the quantity for kids.
Another alarming study about the injections. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.18.22271936v1 https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/moderna-knew-vaccinated-people-will?s=r
First time I measured it this morning, it was 111/73, 59 BPM. Some minutes later, it was 105/67, same BPM. There was no workout scheduled for this morning, and I only got a few hours sleep last night.
I haven't gotten a booster and at this point I am going to hold off. I am pretty sure I had Covid in January as I was sick for a couple days, and my wife and oldest both tested positive. It was no worse than a bad cold for a couple days. Based on my reaction to the 2nd Moderna shot I really have no desire to get a booster unless things become really bad with a new variant.
You now have Super Immunity (Covid vaccination plus breakthrough Covid infection)...thanks to Omicron. wrbtrader