Got My 2nd Dose of Covid Vaccine

They said that Sinovac vaccine was just mild and had no much side effects. But in the second dose, now they are telling me to be extra careful maybe there will be a strange effect compared to the 1st dose. It got me a bit nervous again. What they said was seems true because on my first dose I didn't feel anything weird that which I should care much. But even so, I was comfortable to take the vaccine the second time.

There, I've got my 2nd dose of covid vaccine but this time it took me days to rest. I was observing its effect on me. I felt too much fatigue which made me a bit scared for days too... what if this is what they're telling me. My entire body was very tired to move that it just left me energy enough to eat and change clothes the next days.

It's different from the 1st dose in which I only felt soreness on the arm where the needle was pierced and a bit of drowsiness. While this 2nd dose, I can't explain the fatigue. My body was very tired, seems like something very heavy was on me.

Though I tried to resist what's in my mind that time, I couldn't help but scared. Maybe I was just overthinking that it almost fell into anxiety. I kept wondering what happened to me. O my.... I even once told my husband that I was having trouble breathing ...and I was scolded instead😁. He got angry because of what I'm saying when in fact I don't even have a fever.

Seriously, me too, I don't like what's going on in my mind that time. It even gave me hard time sleeping. It also reached to the point when even my son got angry and scolded me. There, as if I came back to my senses. I really tried to comfort myself. So instead of entertaining those bad feelings and be drowned into, I diverted my mind reading posts about after-effects of the vaccine to clear my doubts. There are lots of it listed, and body fatigue after the vaccine is just one. In my case, what made it worst was that I overthought about it and I became very sensitive even though I'm not that feeling too bad.

After days of self-monitoring of the things I felt, I am very thankful to God that I am now feeling good. Well, I am just fine actually to start with. Just that I seem to have entertained too much of my fear.

So friends if possible let's not feed our thoughts with bad things. Don't even give time to read those scary posts on social media because it only adds tension to our imagination. Better to just choose what is good for our mind.

To those who are afraid like me, don't get too carried away by whatever ugly thing that enters your mind about this vaccine because our body might agree to it.
Though we can't control those fear plus the number of bad things we often read and hear around us, we should strengthen our faith in God instead. He is the only one who knows what to happen so let's not take the lead.

There, my vaccine dose was completed at last! It's been a week and I can now breathe well, both mentally and physically.

So that's it. Thanks for taking the time to visit my post. Hopefully, I have contributed something of help. Till then keep safe.

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