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LaGeraldine's avatar

The night after my partner got his second shot (I know, I know.. I was against it, but he wouldn’t listen) I was sleeping next to him and woke up at 3am to the sensation that I was FREEZING cold. It was June, hot a hell and I was full-body shivering so badly that I had to crawl to the bathroom and get under the shower to try and “warm” myself up. I have had shivers like that before when I was ill in the past, but this was on another level. The shaking attack lasted 5 minutes and was the most intense and totally freaky immune reaction I’ve ever experienced. I was a few weeks pregnant at the time and started bleeding two days later. Luckily I didn’t miscarry the pregnancy and proceeded to avoid getting the vaccines myself and stay well, but man it was weird. I know it’s anecdotal but since then I’ve been pretty convinced that shedding is a real phenomena - interesting to finally see it confirmed!

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Mel's avatar

I think it’s a terrible thing since these antibodies are now obsolete and infection-promoting. I do think it’s still probably negligible unless you have close personal contact like a parent would with a child, or sexual partners would. I would hope these antibodies do not out-compete a child’s innate natural antibodies. This would be very bad news.

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