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QueenJess

Yikes, hope you recover soon. I’m thinking my booster on 24th could be a nightmare…

Anyway, we had a roast chicken for dinner so I’m following @Baileys_Babe’s instructions and chucking it into the slow cooker in a minute to do its thing overnight. Plus I picked over the carcass that DH “got everything off” and got another couple of portions out of it 🙄. I’m thinking chicken soup for lunch tomorrow.

Tescodealqueen

Hope you feel better soon. Surprisingly I had no trouble at all with booster so think it’s hit and miss how if affects . Look after yourself xx

Baileys_Babe

QueenJess said:

Yikes, hope you recover soon. I’m thinking my booster on 24th could be a nightmare…

I had my booster this week, my arm has been slightly tender and a light headache, which lifted when I had a coffee.

When I had my booster they recommended I increased the amount of water I drank for the next 3 days.

Sun_Addict

I felt terrible the day after my Pfizer booster, thankfully it only lasted 24 hours. I’m felt awful after the first and second AZ jabs too. Mr SA was fine after all three but then he’s had that much chemo his body is so used to being pumped with poison the vaccine must be nothing in comparison. 

Hope you’re feeling better by now.
 

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

hope you soon feel better foxgloves 
x

CRANKY40

I hope you feel better soon. 

foxgloves

Hello everyone - Thanks for all your comments, which I enjoyed reading. I am feeling much better today, thanks. Like @Sun_Addict, the side effects only lasted for 24 hours, but I honestly felt dreadful, just slumped on the sofa feeling sorry for myself. I managed to cut up a batch of fudge which I'd made for my nephews, make the bed, open the cards which came in the post & make some coffee, but that was the limit of my productivity. We had our boosters on Friday lunchtime. Mr F, as usual, no side effects, not even a sore arm, honestly, I think the b*gger must be made of concrete! Jabs 1 & 2 were both AZ & I had a very sore arm & minor side effects the first time, followed by a slightly sore arm & no side effects the 2nd time. Booster was Pfizer - oh my goodness, that was a different story. Arm not too bad, felt fine at bedtime, but woke up at about 2.30 am feeling very cold. Just couldn't get warm, however much I cocooned myself in duvet & stuck my icy feet on Mr F. A bad headache set in an hour later & I got no more sleep at all. By getting-up time, I felt dreadful, boiling hot, had to open the windows, & had to send my apologies to my sis-in-law's present-exchange brunch, to which I was really looking forward. The aches set in & weak muscles, just like flu without the respiratory symptoms. Felt so poorly I did an LFT just to make sure I hadn't picked up the damn virus on Wednesday's city centre trip (having just seen said city centre cited in an article about worryingly low vaccination rates) - it was negative, so at least I knew I just had to sit out the side effects. Felt quite a lot better by evening & almost back to normal today, so was able to meet up with my sister & nephews as planned. We chose a garden centre equidistant between us & London & just met for a late breakfast & a meander around the shop & deli. So nice to see them, it was worth every one of the 75 miles in thick fog to get there! I've just had 2 or 3 fleeting whoozy moments, but apart from that the side effects have gone. I don't want to sound as though I'm moaning......I'd much rather have 24 hrs feeling like sh*te than go down with Covid. 
With being busy last week, then being out of action yesterday & out all this morning, I'm finding that everywhere I look atm, I can see at least 3 jobs, so I am planning to swing into action tomorrow & hopefully get a good bit done. Pleased that I didn't succumb in the lovely garden centre shop. I did see a few nice things I'd defo have bought back in the day, but not only did I not need any of them, I also felt that given the choice of going home with either the items or my money, I'd rather keep the latter! 
Mr F has just announced he's taking some leftovers from the freezer plus the last slice of his birthday cake for tomorrow's packed lunch - that's good for me, there needs to be some serious 'use-it-up' on the food front this week,
Stay cosy, m'dears.....& more importantly, stay well,
F x

DawnW

I had similar side effects after my second and third Pfizer jabs.  Really horrible, that freezing cold feeling and headache. Glad you feel better today, but take it easy tomorrow if you need to.

foxgloves

@QueenJess - I expect you'll have made your stock by now. I also make it in the slow cooker....well, apart from turkey carcass, of course. I usually get 3 days of dinners plus a packed lunch or soup from a chicken, & ideally, when the carcass has been stripped of meat, I like to shove it in the freezer until I have another one, then I use both together for a richer stock. I think I may have first got this doubling-up idea from @DawnW on the Daily Small Things thread. Much like @Baileys_Babe, I put them in the slow cooker with the usual stock ingredients - celery leaves &/or bendy celery, carrot tops/clean peelings, tops & tails of onions plus a couple of the brown papery skins (tip from my old fashioned cookery teacher in the late1970s for imparting a rich golden colour), a bay leaf, a few parsley stalks & 3 or 4 whole black peppercorns. As we aim to be a zero-food waste household (had to compost TWO mouldy lemons last week, was so cross, the air was a blue as they were!), I also add other things which need using up - wilty lettuce leaves, leek tops are good, also green tops from spring onions, etc, but not potatoes as they are too starchy & can be better used up in other ways (potato bread, bubble & squeak, hash, fish cakes, etc). I don't use parsnips in stock either, as I find their flavour can overwhelm the subtle sort of savouriness I'm aiming for, so bendy parsnips would usually be used in parsnip mash or soup. I give it a morning in the slow cooker on 'high' then turn it to low for the afternoon, no set time, it is strained when I feel it's had long enough. It gets frozen in containers in the size of portion we'd want to use for gravy, stews, soups, etc. When I make stock from our Christmas turkey, I always have to remind myself to put aside 900 ml in the fridge as it's an ingredient in the turkey chilli recipe I make every year. It's the best stock of the year in my opinion & makes lovely gravy for roasts to come.
F x

foxgloves

Hi @DawnW - Sorry to hear you also had the side effects. I think I will be ok tomorrow, it has honestly only been those 2 or 3 very brief whoozy moments today. I think Covid boosters are probably likely to become an annual norm, like flu jabs, so I will need to remember to factor in a day of recovery time in case it happens again. I felt so grotty, I really did think my LFT might show a positive result, & was relieved when it did turn out to be side effects only. My oldest nephew (18) to whom I was chatting this morning has had the Pfizer for all 3 of his jabs. He said that while the first two resulted in just a 'bit of a sore arm', the booster caused him to wake up in the night with the shivers too, but that is where the side effects ended for him....my shivery night progressed into an 18-hour headache which was completely impervious to paracetamol, & roasting spells of heat. I suppose that just shows how random the effects are. And there's Mr F who can't even feel where the needle went into his arm or see a mark. He's like this every time.
F x