Flu or Covid

My sister and her husband had the same reaction to their jabs this year

My flu jag is arranged for November 9th, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it as I've Covid at the moment, tested positive yesterday.

Does covid have to be out of your system for a certain time before you can have the flu jag? No idea if, or when, I'm likely to be offered the Covid jag.

DH and I had the 2 jabs and it was fine just an ache for the rest of the day- so fingers crossed for the future!

Yes, neither flu nor Covid lasts a few days. Now you're feeling better get on with your life.

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I've had various vaccines/injections, then got either COVID or the flu, I couldn't work out which one it was!

It lasted a few days and then disappeared.

Unlikely if it only lasted a few days! You got off lightly and I think you’d have known if it was either!

Exactly.

You cannot get flu from a flu vaccine. Nor can you get Covid from a Covid vaccine.

You may experience mild flu or Covid-like symptoms as the immune system mounts a response to the vaccines(s).

Both vaccines take up to two weeks to become fully effective and even then may not be become so in people who are very old or immuno-compromised.

As neither vaccine can stop someone from catching flu or Covid, it is always possible to have caught the virus(es) anyway.

When I went for my Covid jab on 1 October - the first day the pop-up opened this season, the tiny waiting area was jammed. A couple of people waiting had hacking coughs and could have been spreading whatever they had to other people waiting.

This 'myth' of the vaccines giving you the disease has been around for a long time. Of course, total rubbish.
The double does (one in each arm), can cause sore arm(s), and often result in 24=36 hours of tiredness as body adjusts.
However, at this time of year, anyone getting these jabs may well have infected with either of these illnesses before getting the jabs, and the full effects of that illness will appear to be related to the injections.
However, if they had not had that injection, would probably actually be far more ill.

I've had various vaccines/injections, then got either COVID or the flu, I couldn't work out which one it was!

It lasted a few days and then disappeared.

No side effects at all for me. I had both jabs together. The pharmacist went to great lengths to explain that they would not give me a dose of ‘flu or covid - contrary to what some believe. I never thought they did that anyway.
Ironically both DD’s in their 40’s are off work with severe cases of Covid.

I doubt it, something to do with live vaccines (or not)
I too had both , same time, same arm and apart from feeling very sleepy for about 36 hours no side effects at all.

I’m just recovering from a bout of Covid, I had all the above symptoms.