Have you discussed this with your Doctor? They would know more than the mayo clinic site. I was told not to mix the vaccinations but to get the same one so i would check with your primary care Doctor.

Discuss with the primary care doctor. Always.

Talk to your doctor.

i had bad reaciton to first shot too. also have fibromyalgia. didn't take second pfizer shot. one shot gives you up to 85% protection so that's good. yea, talk to doc but go with your gut. if i were you i wouldn't get the second shot. this vaccine is really new and the powers that be are covering up a lot of the down sides to it.
look online. a lot of people are dying from it. way more than the average amount from other vaccines. please be safe.

Definitely discuss with your doctor. There’s so much misinformation online, especially when it comes to adverse effects. They exist and you hear about them, but way out of proportion to how many people are vaccinated. Trouble breathing after any vaccine or medical treatment is nothing to play around with so you shouldn’t go by what any website says, regardless of how legitimate it is. Talk to a medical professional who’s familiar with your history. I had a much less severe reaction to my first Pfizer vaccine (skin reaction several hours later), and I did look at the cdc website for guidelines, but still called my doctors office to confirm I could get the second dose. I will say, I strongly support getting vaccinated if you can do so safely (as defined by your doctor). I’ve got fibromyalgia, and asthma, and I had Covid twice in 11 months with severe fatigue and brain fog long term-I’m talking worse than fibromyalgia. Both vaccines flattened me but it was so worth it.

I will talk to my primary care doctor. (I don't have much confidence in him though--he seems absent-minded. I recently lost my old pcp because he retired, coincidentally right before the pandemic!)

I did find some useful info from the website of the ACAAI (American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology)--about what are the main allergic ingredients in the Pfizer and J&J vaccines, how they are different, and how long you have to wait if you need to take the J&J because you had an allergic reaction to the Pfizer (at least 28 days).

Maybe my pcp will refer to me to an allergy specialist--this is what the CDC site recommends.

But if one shot of Pfizer gives me 85% protection, I'd be happy with that. J&J only give about 65% (?) protection.

Thank you, All, for your input.

If you have severe hypersensitivity from the dose, I think that the company is not recommending the second dose.

I have lupus, and I am due to get the 1st Pfizer dose end of August. I have not received any vaccines for a long time since my lupus diagnosis, so I am a little apprehensive in receiving the Pfizer vaccine. My Mom has flu-like symptoms for more than 10 days after receiving the Pfizer vaccine.

My grandfather just died from a bad reaction to the vaccine (not sure which one he got). He had just survived covid (barely) and then after he was fully recovered, they gave him the 1st shot and he got extremely sick and ended up in the hospital. They gave him the 2nd shot anyway (stupid) and he got extremely sick again and died. There are more recorded adverse reactions with the covid vaccine than all other vaccines in the last 10 years of data combined. There is someone in a grief group I'm in whose wife just died from a bad reaction to the covid vaccine (50s/healthy). I'm not anti-vaxxer, just very cautious about anything I put in my body because I have a lot of really bad reactions to meds myself. Vaccines are known to kick off autoimmune problems and since Fibro is like an anti immune issue (and I have a feeling that I actually do have an auto immune issue they just haven't figured out which one yet), I'm not taking the risk of making it worse w/ the vaccine. I would be very careful, if I were you. Like a previous commenter said, you're already protected to a certain degree from the 1st dose. I'd probably just stop there.

Make sure you fill out a VAERS form if you are in the USA to register your bad and very serious reaction. https://vaers.hhs.gov

Its online but you will need the information off your vaccination card. I had a reaction that blood in the urine, kidney infection - after each pfizer shot. My one educated specialist doctor just told me there are many reports of this happening (blood in urine) and so he wrote on my office visit notes not to have the booster shot. My PCP will flip as she is pretty overwhelmed and clueless about covid even though she and her partner both had it. She treated me for the kidney infections and also a PA and neither one had any idea this could be something to report. She still has no idea about early home treatment which my specialist does. If you are in another country, use that country's form to register your bad reaction. I got the shot in the Spring with much trepidation because I have a sensitive body and the shot has some chemicals like PEG in it. My reactions have been longer lasting, muscle pain, the two kidney infections. The muscles pains could be from the inflammation that sets in as the shot works in my body. My family members wanted me to have the shot and one has an autoimmune disease so I did. I am not anti vaccine but I am very educated on how this shot works in the body. On one hand I am glad I got the two shots but on the other, it has been a long pain filled few months since then. My adult child who asked me to get the vaccine had the fever and muscle pains and terrible headache with both pfizer shots and missed 3 days of work after each shot. But Covid is rising again where I live and frankly, I am mostly glad I got the shot. Even though I am very wary of how it is made, the chemicals, the side effects, the lack of studies before using it, and what it does to or in the body, and the whole politicalization of it here in the USA. Make an informed decision for yourself and if you do get another shot, maybe get it somewhere that can treat you afterwards if you go into the same reaction. You said the reaction started at about 20 minutes so sit there for at least 30 minutes afterwards. Did you get any treatment after the reaction from medical professionals, like an epi-shot or benadryl or anything? Also any other future types of vaccine shots you might get (flu, shingles, etc.), make sure they do not have the same chemical preservatives that the pfizer shot has. Its probably the PEG that gives us such trouble according to medical experts. It is recommended you go to an allergist to find out for sure what chemical it was that set your body into this reaction. This is where you truly need to seek out the best medical advice you can get and demand what you need. I don't know where you live or if you have to have the PCP's referral to a specialist for your health insurance, but this is a must and not optional. Sorry for the rant. I know how easy it is to get blown off by doctors who are busy and overwhelmed.

I am someone who has strange reactions to meds. I am really apprehensive about getting the shot. I am also one of the biggest supporters of vaccines. But this one, I refuse to get until they produce a clean vaccine. And when I say clean vaccine, I want one that will not mess with my body like the Moderna, J&J, Novovax, Pfizer, and etc.

And because so many people are willingly getting the shot and feel so strongly about it, I have taken it upon myself to read up on the adverse reactions. And the studies of what is taking place.

As of last week (today being 7/22/21), it's been proven in a study that the spike protein gets into all but 3 of our DNA chromosomes. And the adverse reactions people are having is huge.
What ticks me off about it is that with every other vaccine there is an ICD-10 code. So if a doctor wants to report a reaction, they would simply go in and share that information. But with the Covid vaccines, there is no ICD-10. Which means doctors now only have one mean of reporting this information and that is to be funneled through the CDC through the VAERS database.

And throughout the history of our vaccines here in the US combined, we have never had a death rate as high or such crazy adverse reactions to a vaccine. All of other combined do not come close to how "dirty" this vaccine is.

Moderna, J&J, Pfizer all have biggies, death, GBS, Bells Palsy, Strokes, Paralysis, Seizures, Myocarditis, Miscarriages, from tinnitus, to life threatening conditions. You can't tell me that is a clean vaccine!
And you have to go to places like OpenVaers.com/covid-data to find truth in reporting. But what is sad about that is again, all of this data is being filter by the CDC because of no ICD-10 code.

Further more, the new Novovax vaccine has the potential of diseases like Dementia (lewy body- the one Robin Williams had) and due to the Prion Proteins that the virus injects. Another concern from the spike -prion protien is diseases like mad cow disease, though if people suffer from encephalopathy due to the covid vaccine, I doubt they will call it mad cow disease since it had nothing to do with eating contaminated beef. But maybe it will be mad moth disease since the Novovax vaccine uses moth DNA to make it from?

Another piece of information is that is being blown up is this new Delta Variant. This is being touted as something to fear once again. And take my word, I do fear Covid, but with more respect than terror. The Delta variant is actually a good thing. Viruses are supposed to do this. With each time they morph, they become less lethal. Even though many are saying it's more contagious. It is, but it's supposed to be. It's the survival of the virus. But when it morphs, in a way , it makes itself "kinder" if you will, to latch onto others.

But my biggest complaint to date with all of this is the lack of informed consent. Because of the experimental nature of the vaccines, not much information has been released, and some doctors are just following CDC recommendations vs sharing informed consent.

I put the brakes on all of this vaccine stuff. I am doing research off of google, reading reports, listening to truth in media, (not hype - mostly doctors who share their knowledge).
I opt now to not listen to the media, but go to Openvaers to read that information. I also look to what treatments are available if I do happen to contract Covid, and my next plan is to have my antibodies tested to see if I perhaps did have covid at one point.

But further more, I agree with others here, I think starting with your doctors office is imperative, if you trust them, or as you mentioned, getting a referral to an allergist.
Weighing out your pros and cons. For me, this is simple. I "should" have a 95+% chance at surviving Covid naturally. I do not want to risk any of the above to bring my chance as survival or suffering to an 85% chance.

They say if you are going to have a bad reaction, it will happen w/in the first 48hrs of the shot. And then again at the 1 month mark.

To me, this vaccine is as dirty as Agent Orange was. The spike protein seems to somehow accelerate conditions you were already predestined to have. It's the best way I can sum this all up. I watched that happen with my father. I don't want to make the same mistakes willingly that will impact my kids.

Hi Achybones. I have been meaning to share my allergic reaction experience to the PFIZER vaccine with you . I had my first shot on 3/23/21 . Less than 15 minutes after the shot I got super itchy everywhere and my face and neck became a very angry red. Then for weeks and weeks I had itchy skin, new rashes , hives that would come and go , skin redness and warmth, and all of my skin felt like someone was rubbing me with sandpaper. I do have a lot of allergies and I keep getting more so I guess it was not the biggest surprise this happened. I also dont tolerate new meds well , I get the weird side effects. Also, I felt really weird when I first received the shot when the itching started and my lips were numb for days. I was still at the place I received it , because they were going to watch me for 30 minutes either way because of my history of anaphylaxis to a med. I had with me my epi-pen , inhaler, and liquid Benedryl. I took the liquid Benedryl right away.

I did not know that prior to getting the new vaccines you can get tested for allergies to PEG and Polysorbate 80. I blame my allergist for not sharing this information with her patients. It would of saved me a lot of misery. The patient portal could have been used to send a mass email to the patients with these troubles.

I would recommend finding a good allergist where you live .
They can allergy test you for PEG and Polysorbate 80. My allergist was going to give me the second dose in the office in increments but it turned out I couldnt get a 2nd one. I was told when this first started in March that the longest you can go between the 2 shots is 6 weeks for full effectiveness. At 6 weeks I was still having my reaction. My Allergist thinks that at some point ( 2 to 4 weeks in ) my allergic reaction turned into an inflammation reaction. I am not sure if that is correct considering these vaccines have not been used widely before. They are meant to last for a long time in your body.

I am unhappy that I couldnt get a second dose. I do have some immunity from one shot but I was told no where near what 2 doses give you and they have no idea for how long.

I still wear a mask in public . The few times I have been in a car with others I wear a mask and open the windows. I visited a few family members in their homes recently for a short period of time but I kept my distance and wore a mask. I am still not comfortable having others in my house except my adult son. My BFF was in my house recently for a short period of time but we both wore masks. I still dont eat in restaurants and other risky type things. If I do go into a store I go closer to their closing time when it is less populated.

Wonder, it is my understanding the antibodies fade out as in dont last long enough for long term protection. A new variant comes along and your antibodies from a different variant doesnt necessarily protect you. I think that is how people have gotten Covid twice or their antibodies just wore off. Anyhow, that is my understanding . I dont claim to be a scientist.

I talked to my pcp. He said to skip the 2nd shot of Pfizer. He did not say to take the J&J either.

I think there are 2 separate categories of effects: Allergic reaction and side effects. I think mine was an allergic reaction.

I have never had an allergic reaction to any vaccines before. Do the common vaccines (flu, etc) have PEG too? If so, then I'm not allergic to that.

I was at the pharmacy for 2 hours! Afraid to leave. I'd rather have the pharmacist at least keep an eye on me. She did not offer anything other than calling for an ambulance if I wanted it.

After the pressure (on my chest and throat) subsided after about 2 hours, I went home. The rest of the evening, I had significant muscle pain in my arms, shoulders and neck. Felt very tired and heavy headed. The next morning, I was much better--still a bit more tired than usual, muscle pain like my normal fibro pain. By the 3rd day, I was back to normal.

So, as far as side effects were concerned, mine wasn't bad at all. It was the allergic reaction (chest/throat tightness and breathing problem) that was scary. I guess my pcp thought there was no point in taking that risk again, esp. since with 1 shot, I'm already 80% protected. Just keep wearing a mask, like I plan to for a long time.

Thanks for sharing your experiences! They're very enlightening.

Hi we might of been posting at the same time ?????

Hi Milily, Yes, I think we were posting at the same time!

No one knows how long the vaccine protection would last--not even the doctors. Even if I get 2 shots, they're already talking about a 3rd booster shot--Geez, we may as well just wait for the 5th booster shot?!

I am continuing to wear mask, social distance, and wash hands--just like before the vaccines. I think the gov't and media, in their effort to promote mass vaccination/herd immunity, are giving people a false sense of security. They're giving people the impression that once they're fully vaccinated, they're no longer contagious. I think that if they're fully vaccinated, they are les likely to get sick from the virus, but they can still be carriers and give it to others. I think they were opening up way too fast; to wit, they have to pull back again due to a recent surge. Even fully vaccinated people are getting breakthrough infections.

Abundance of caution until they get this all figured out!

I agree Achybones