Are any of you going to mix-and-match your COVID booster shot?

This should've been a poll.

You should've been an abortion, R1.

Hmm I’m not sure. I was going to get a 3rd Pfizer but now I’m contemplating moderna

I heard if you got the J&J you should get a different booster. Something to ask your physician.

I want to get it tomorrow and I dont think Moderna is available yet... so it will be Pfizer 1 2 & 3 for me.

Since it’s a booster it probably doesn’t matter as much.

2 shots of Astra Zeneca back in spring here, and I just received a Pfizer booster shot. I’ll let you know bitches if I grow a second head!

When I get around to getting the vaccine, then I'll decide about mixing/matching.

I'm getting my third pfizer shot today

We don't have booster shots for anyone except those who got Pfizer and most of us in this county got Moderna. My doctor said he wasn't sure a regular flu shot would even be recommended by the CDC this year but about a week after I spoke to him the CDC said to get them as normal, so I'll get that, but probably no COVID booster this year.

I'm planning on mixing, Moderna at the end of the week (Phizer first). My sister was obsessively obnoxious about how important it is that I mix. I get she's in respect for a few hospitals so she doesn't want any of us getting seriously sick, but she and another sister in hospice work both got matching (was also earlier bc of their risk factor).

If anyone has any good resources on this topic, please share, am still interested in more research.

^Pfuck Pfizer

I had Moderna in April (both shots) and just had Pfizer as a booster. Felt a little ickier with the Pfizer than either of the Moderna ones but really just had a sore arm with both.

The CVS Pharmacist did the decision-making for me.

R8 this website is filled with people like you...

All dead now.

R13 Supposedly according to my sister you're supposed to have more of a reaction bc that's a 'good' immune reaction. (Which leaves me wondering how everyone else who tolerated it fares. 🤔) I felt AWFUL after the second dose, got a migraine, just miserable, and the idea with mixing is that you'll trigger another strong immune response, I'm starting to feel like a glutton for punishment...

Yes. Getting the moderna booster.

I had my 3rd Moderna with no effects until about 12 hours later I woke up with an incredible pain in my arm. I was surprised there wasn't any bruising in the morning. Still tender six days later.

Never mix, never worry!

Canada’s been mixing and matching doses since day one. We’re fine, you will be too.

I did Pfizer-Pfizer-Moderna. #s 2-3 both kicked my ass for 36 hours.

Moderna bitches, moderna!

I did three Moderna. My man did two Pfizer with a Moderna chaser. We’re both still alive.

Getting my 3rd Moderna tomorrow. I had no reaction (beyond a sore arm) to the first two so...we'll see

I had two Pfizers and then, last week, one Moderna. The first Pfizer shot kicked my ass, the second was nothing. The Moderna booster made me very tired for several days—not just 24 hours, but 3 or 4 days. Same thing happened with the first Pfizer. I felt like I was “dragging” and fighting off a virus all those days. You know that fatigue feeling that’s specific to an immune response, right? That’s what I felt.

Anyway, it’s over now, and I’m not sick.

I get my third booster of Moderna on December 10. I’d figured the extra strength of the last two Moderna held up pretty well and could of waited to possibly February but I’m getting it out the way before the end of the year so.. Just preparing myself for a couple of days of rest is all afterwards.

Good luck everyone… My uncle waited too late to get the booster after having two shots of Phizer back in January. He went down Atlantic City a week ago and now he’s on a ventilator 😢 He should have gotten his booster shot…🥲

^ Correction.. My uncle had the two Moderna shots back in February so….. Either way it wore off.

And now I just read the Modetna may be less effective against this new variant..

I’m beside myself because of my uncle right now 🥲

But the data coming in about this new variant is relatively early so I’m staying hopeful that it won’t be too bad. Fingers crossed 🤞

R26 you must be posting from the future. It is Nov 29th and you got your booster on Dec 10th?

Why are people saying "mix and match"? Do you mean OR? You either match (get the same vaccine for your booster) OR mix (get a different vaccine for your booster).

R20.. No I have an appointment on the 10th coming up..

R7, the medicos recommend that you have an MRNA booster if you had Astra Zeneca. (I suspect that also applies to J&J which is a similar technology to AZ.) It will give you slightly better resistance than if you had had three Pfizer shots.

They say the gold standard is three Modernas.

They also say it's not a booster: it's a late realization that it should have been a 3-dose vaccine all along, so in fact it's the completion of your course.

But I haven't heard specifically about the J&J so get advice.

R31, YES the J&J absolutely requires an mRNA booster. The medicos (I love that word, thank you for introducing it) have stated this. Any recipient of J&J should get an mRNA booster 2 months after the J&J.

I did. Pfizer for my initial two shots, Moderna for my booster.

I wish I could get the J&J vaccine, just to be safe. Maybe it's more effective against Omicron?

r29 is fun at parties.

I got the Pfizer for the first two and a Moderna "chaser."

The second Pfizer kicked my ass, and I was sick for three days. The other two were a piece of cake (mixing my metaphors!).