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On the day of 2nd shot I felt no effect except felt a little more tired at end of day, and my upper arm at injection site was sore. Next morning I woke up with mild body ache and feeling feverish. I measured my temperature and it was normal. Took a 500 mg Tylenol and that helped a little on the body aches and feverish feeling. Just rested all day and went to bed early. Today is 3rd day after 2nd shot, and body aches are no more. The injection site is much less sore as well. One more day of taking it easy, and will resume my daily Gym routine tomorrow.

My bout of Covid-19 in early-November of 2020 was milder.

But how can the inoculation be worse than the disease? Unless...

Regards,

But how can the inoculation be worse than the disease?

I can think of a lot of reasons, just 4 of which are:

Individuals' immune responses vary greatly. Most people, as happened with you, do not fall severely behind a COVID-19 infection's ability to "explode past the defenses". But, unfortunately, enough do to be a serious problem. The vaccine, on the other hand, is a controlled quantity -- it can't actually reproduce (potentially explosively). So, the dosage is sized to cause the desired fairly strong immune reaction (which can have unpleasant symptoms for some), but it is not so strong as to be dangerous, and it is "controlled" to a large degree because antagonist can not reproduce like a real virus.

Your normal body cycles.

What the viral load you were exposed to was.

VERY often the response by a healthy body's immune system to a "second invasion" is stronger than the 1st go-round. This is frequently seen with pathogens, allergies, and, in fact, in most cases with 2nd shots of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, compared to the 1st shot.

No kidding. After reading some hellish experiences covid-19 patients have gone through, we should do everything and anything to avoid full blown attack of the virus.

To my knowledge many who recovered were left with permanent damage to lungs, heart & liver.

So yes, the minor symptoms from vaccine inoculation is just a piece of cake.