“Do fat people have a stronger and more responsive immune system? Do skinny people have a weaker and less responsive immune system? Not trying to be a smart ass, I really don’t know. I do know (at least I think I know) that all adults (with some exceptions for older people who need a bigger dose because of their weaker immune system) get the same size of vaccine injections regardless of weight.”
My wife who was the head/lead office RN for a very large and busy Family Practice for about 40 years was just questioned on these issues by me. “She has Zero experience with this vaccine except being a patient and surviving 2 shots.
She said, “There was never any difference in vaccine doses due to weight differences, age or sex.
Toward the later couple of years of her practice: Older patients got a larger dose of the flu shot of the year and the pneumonia shot.(as you noted above due to our weakened immune systems).
I out weigh her, her female friends and our female siblings and we all got the same Pfizer dose. None of us are obese/over weight.
One of our 50 something sons, without an ounce of fat got the same dose as his wife and daughter (they are 35-45 pounds lighter than him.). They had minimal side effects. He was hammered by the first dose and missed close to a week’s work after his first dose. He had zero problems with his 2nd shot. His female family members had minimal problems with either shot.
One older male friend got shingles in the stomach area after his second shot and got an injection at an outpatient clinic and that cleared the shingles up.
I got Clovid Arm after my first Pfizer shot and it disappeared after 2+ days. An RN friend said it might have been shingles, and my 2 Shingles shots two years ago came to the rescue.
As posted before, our women folk, who got vaccinated across the nation had less side effects than the weaker sex, the guys.
Most of us are 2+ months after our second shot and are still alive and on this side of the grass.
“…our women folk, who got vaccinated across the nation had less side effects than the weaker sex, the guys….”
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As a member of that weaker sex, I hear you. My wife says sometimes I just exaggerate things so I can be treated like a big baby. She may be right. ;-)
My husband and I had our 2nd shots this past Friday. About 3 hours later my arm/shoulder started the familiar hurting. I stay up very late, so around maybe 2 or 3 in the morning I was feeling pretty chilly. Around maybe 5 a.m. (I stay up VERY LATE like I said) my teeth were chattering from being so cold. Very soon after my entire body was shaking uncontrollably, like I was riding a jackhammer or something. Did not like not being able to stop it. Took my temperature with a very shaky hand and it was up one degree from when I had taken it way earlier in the night to see if I had a fever, 97.7, this was all Friday night after the shot around 2 in the afternoon. Shakily took some tylenol and went to bed, no shakes once I hit the pillow. Saturday night I felt cold again but no chattering or shaking, took my temperature and it was up to 100.1. (I’m 64, 80 lbs., 5’1” and 0+, he’s 66, 145 lbs. not sure of blood type)...if any of that matters, which maybe it did) I was fine on Monday.