Insomnia and concerned about antibodies for vaccine protection?

[Sleleah]

Senior who read that you need sleep to build antibodies and not able to get much sleep for weeks prior to and after vaccination. Will the vaccine be effective for those with insomnia?

[airgidi]

Можно и вы спаться, можно и феназепам

[Paxiled]

Yes.  Vaccines force your body to react in a way they don't do naturally.  Even if your immune system has been lowered by lack of sleep, and it might have been and it might not have been, people's bodies react differently, get the vaccine and let it do its thing.  But I would ask, why the insomnia?  That's a bigger issue.

[Sleleah]

Thank you for your reply. I attribute the insomnia to covid anxiety. So many I know have been really sick with it and two died.  

[AnnieBrooke]

When did (or will you) get your shot? It shouldn't be long now.

[Sleleah]

Hi Annie,  Got shot #1 on 3/12. Shot #2 will be this coming Friday.

[AnnieBrooke]

That's good, then! Just not sleeping well will not keep a vaccine from working. (Think of all the vaccines given in the world all the time for all ailments that can be vaccinated against. If insomnia mooted them, they wouldn't be considered a vaccine.) Also, they have recently announced that the vaccines that get two (Moderna and Pfeizer) give you up to 80% protection even before you get your second shot. This kind of research has been ever-developing, and originally they didn't know, but now they're confident that even shot #1 out of 2 does a lot.  You are already in the bracket where you're 80% safer than you were. And then soon (two weeks after your second shot, or the 26th) you'll be considered in the 95% range.  I hope this lets you sleep better!  :-)