posted on Dec, 28 2021 @ 08:23 AM
COVID boosters - my wife and I received the Pfizer booster. Originally, we were given Moderna which was pretty awful with the second dose. The booster
is close to mandatory for our fields. She is a health care provider in ABA therapy for children and travels throughout the state. I help image
deceased COVID patients in virtual autopsies, ventilate them, and then use CT to determine what happened. I also work in BSL3 labs on SARS-CoV-2,
MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and the bat strains like RaTG13.
I received my booster from the military when we had some extra boosters that were going to be thrown out. It wasn’t too bad, intermittent fever and
swollen lymph nodes on the side of the injection. No heart inflammation, I got it a week before a pulmonary vein isolation ablation procedure for my
AFib that I got after a respiratory infection almost 2 years ago.
My wife got swollen lymph nodes, especially near the clavicle and the axillary region. She may have had a flare-up of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis post
booster as well. She got her cycle two weeks early, which is interesting because I’m curious as to the exact cause immunology wise.
The autoimmune flare-up could be expected especially with how T-cell activation and targeting can occur in the regions stimulated by the vaccine or a
concurrent respiratory infection. The early period is interesting, there are ongoing studies exploring this and I would expect reactions and issues to
be short term since impacting the germ line in humans is currently illegal with gene therapy technologies which mRNA falls under currently. Plus,
males have extensive protections that check cells and females already have theirs generated.
Other than that, all is well, I’ve had ongoing blood testing during all of this because of the ablation and other evaluations and my wife is going
soon. Will update if there are any negative changes.