I agree with you. Just wish I could get the vaccine! No matter where I check they’re all booked with appointments! Sometime I feel like I’ll never get it!
Have you looked into getting on a pharmacy standby list? While I organized this tactic myself, I understand that there are now apps to streamline this process.
Yes, I’m on the list. They’re all booked. It’s a matter of waiting. By the look of things my guess is I’ll get it by July. Thanks for your reply.
Try the phone. I know several people who scored an appointment by calling and asking.
They will have appointments held back for odd circumstances or hardships.
It can’t hurt to try it.
I would like to refer you to Dr. Mercola’s web site. There you will find out a lot of information about the vaccine itself. But not specifically about impact on diabetics and BG. He cites reliable, study-based information about the vaccine(s).
My own decision is to not get the shot, for a number of reasons related mostly to my personal health situation, especially a fairly recent cancer episode.
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Personal experience with Moderna vaccine.
- Friday evening - Got 2nd dose of Moderna
- Saturday - Entire day in bed with lethargy and fever, temp peaked in the afternoon. Maybe minor, low-level nausea, but no appetite.
- Sunday morning - Temperature is almost back to normal.
As for insulin, no problems. I ate almost no food, except enough to keep from going low. Numbers were very stable.
I also receive my second Moderna dose on Friday. Mine was at noon. My symptoms were milder than yours but still significant.
The most prominent symptom was overall lethargy. I felt like a dead battery; in some respects like a hangover. I also felt brief moments of a headache and a few chills.
My blood sugar stayed in a reasonable range but a little higher than usual. It seemed the vaccination amplified periods of relative insulin resistance that I experience every day. I did have to add a few more corrections than typical. I used Afrezza for that.
I woke up this morning, 40 hours after the injection, and felt mostly normal. I’m looking forward to my “fully vaccinated” status coming on April 9.
I think I had a delayed reaction to the first Pfizer vaccine. The day after I felt slightly sick but nothing terrible, then felt fine for about 4-5 days. Then felt more tired than I ever been, sore throat, ears plugged, just felt sick. I started wondering if I had Covid. Was going to go get a test but after 2 days felt fine again and started reading other reports of a few people having the same reaction. Kind of nervous about the 2nd shot coming up this week. No changes at all as far as blood sugar.
You should get it.
First dose: Sore arm and head “pressure” but not pain.
Second dose: Day one…no symptoms;
Day Two seriously did not want to move…(muscle pain and soreness, headache, chills, tiredness, fever, inflamed lymph node…like an ice pick under right arm same as shot, and pain in joints especially where I had been injured before).
Day 3 was a Monday and while I wasn’t 100% ( tiredness, headache), I did go to work so I didn’t have to cancel 3 meetings.
Day 4 completely back to normal. I didn’t notice really very severe BG changes at all!
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A lot depends on how old you are as compared to the current age requirements in your state. It seems as if in most states, age takes priority over medical status.
I (and my former wife) have had better success signing up through “federally sponsored commercial pharmacies” (CVS, Walgreens, RiteAide, Walmart, Kroger’s (and all their sub-entities such as QFC, King Sooper’s, Fry’s, etc), Safeway.
There are a number of web sites such as VaccineSpotter.org that do their best to track availability in commercial pharmacies in many, but not all, states.
Even though you can’t make reservations directly there, it tells you who might have slots and then you can go directly to the appropriate Walmart, CVS, or Walgreens site.
Finally, this is all best done in the wee hours …. In my experience, most commercial pharmacies release new appointments between 5 and 6 am east coast time. So, if you happen to be on the west coast, for example, checking between 2 and 4 am becomes all important.
And one more thought beyond “finally”: Have you checked the age requirements in adjoining states? As more and more states open eligibility to younger and younger people, a nice day trip may be in order. From what I know, if you meet the age requirements in an adjoining state, they do not care if you are not a resident of that state as long as you meet the age requirements of that state.
Rules and requirements, and vaccine availability, change on an almost daily basis …
I wish you the very best …
I can tell you that by blood sugar skyrocketed the evening of my first Moderna vaccination … but that was due to an opulent celebratory dinner. I hope that you have equal cause for celebration soon.
Best of luck!
John
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Get the shots!!!
Thank you so much, John! Stay well.
Just wanted to add my voice of support for getting the vaccine. What Terry4 (and others) have said is spot on.
I got my first dose last week. Only very mild shoulder soreness. (In comparison, my last flu shot, which I got along with the pneumonia vaccine, gave me such shoulder pain I could barely use my arm for about four days. Was it worth it? Totally. The whole point of vaccines is that side effects are exceedinly mild, if they occur at all, relative to the disease being deterred, and the risk of bad symptoms, let alone death, doesn’t even compare with the risk from COVID (and other diseases we vaccinate against).)
I am now fully vaccinated! After each shot I was tired, no fever for about a day. But for me, my blood sugar did rise after each vax shot for about two weeks after each shot. I simply raised by insulin intake by one unit (long acting) and if that did not help then added another unit after a day or two until things settled down. As I do have a CGM I knew what to take after the shot. Getting a cold or the flu will raise BS in the same manner. I check my log and see what I did for insulin the last time I was sick. I’m been keeping a excel spread sheet log for over 10 years noting all BS readings, what I ate, exercise level, and fast and slow acting insulin intake. About getting the vax, my doctor said that I need to get vax’d ASAP as getting covid can just raise holy heck with your body, especially diabetics, elderly and smokers.
I just read something on apple news and not really sure what the source was,
It said that the moderna and Pfizer vaccines were just recently evaluated and there was an 80% effective rate for the first injection and over 90% for the second.
That’s not that big of a difference. There was another article that said if you have already been infected with covid, one shot is probably enough. And I believe that with this new data.
I’ll get the second shot, but I’m feeling quite protected now with my one.
I DECLARE COVID IS COMPLETELY OVER.
Well at least for me and my family and all the people who already got vaccinated.
There are plenty of populations both worldwide and local to North America who are passionately focused on generating a Covid variant that will circumvent the current vaccines. Since mutations are random, this may also result in a variant which is better at killing people. 
No doubt this is unintentional. Be that as it may, it is still the potential net outcome of their actions.
My perspective is the current vaccines are more of a temporary cease fire, then a complete end to the struggle.
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It’s not ending for the foreseeable future. Although most of us live our lives as if 9/11 is gone, it is always around, in the increased security in buildings, in the security structures around buildings, in the design of buildings, in the tourists to the financial district. Then there are airports…
The pandemic has killed even more in NYC than 9/11.
There will be changes, and with the looming threat of variants, along with the peculiar risks of NY, its density and its tourists, that makes its risks greater. For me, for the few days a month that I would go in to work, I will likely need to certify that I am symptom free. My solitary activities, long walks, workouts, and museums, won’t change much, except that I might need to schedule my gym attendance. Restaurants, depending on the time of day and the expense, can be risky. Even with all of us vaccinated, we won’t be going to any place that is crowded. Spaces will pleasurably be less busy. There might even be conversion of corporate space into housing.
Granted, hand-washing has some positive health benefits, some people will get very fastidious. Expect some people will wear masks, to avoid getting others sick from cold, as many do in Asia. Long-term, there may be repeated rounds of boosters, or something similar to the flu shot.
Has anyone watched Counterpart on Amazon? Part of the background of the story is dependent on a pandemic that wipes out many in one civilization, believed to have been started by the other, with one culture becoming focused on cleanliness, and in other ways, stereotypically East German-like.
Yes.
Gone? not quite. Gone temporarily from your and my and anyone else’s life that has been fully vaccinated.
It will be back just like the flu is always back, perhaps not as deadly as humankind develops natural immunities. Back because of an ability to mutate like all virus’s mutate.
We have things in our favor going forward. A virus that consistently kills off its host (us) is playing a loosing strategy because soon it will find fewer and fewer to infect. it must become less deadly to suceed. We know of this virus and its methods and are no longer unprepared, the fight is on now with our own immune systems and with modern medicine. I suspect it will be an ongoing battle as it is with the flu.
Without a doubt get the vaccine. If you get Covid-19, you bg will be drastically and dramatically changed and you could go into diabetic keto acidosis. For me, the side effects from the second vaccine were very mild and it didn’t affect my bg at all.