I was waffling on when to get the booster since I had covid in may, but then realized: duh, I’m going to homecoming on the 23rd and it would be great to be at peak protection right then so I should get it this week!
Most places don’t have appointments until the 14-19th 
Here too.
Zero trouble getting an appointment in this red state… 
I could’ve gone today if I wanted but next week is better to miss work if it hits me hard.
My plan is to walk into the local Walmart on Friday and see if I can get it then. I’m not expecting a lot of trouble.
I got my fancy new booster yesterday morning. Moderna; my first 3 were Pfizer. The pharmacist said he’d been hearing reports that side effects were not as bad with this new one.
For me: just the same as the others. A ridiculously sore arm, fever and chills, extreme thirst, migraine. I basically didn’t sleep at all last night until about 7am, so I cancelled today’s activities and stayed in bed until almost 2pm.
My wife had an appointment to get the updated booster this morning, but when she got there they said they didn’t have it yet. So I guess the rollout is uneven.
I hope we are as lucky as one of my parents and their friends who were boosted yesterday morning and are feeling fine today. We all went to lunch together today. There was not even a sore arm amongst them. My husband and I are getting boosted later today. 
I assume we will all just get boosters when we get flu shots.
So maybe October?
I plan to call the day before to verify they actually have it. You are not the first person I have heard say this.
We have appts for Friday. Made them yesterday and could have gotten same day but figured Friday was best because the other three have made me very unfunctional and whiny and there’s no way I’d be able to get any work done feeling like that.
My state only ordered 100,000 doses for the entire state
Pharmacy tech who gave me my booster and flu shot said just last week they were doing maybe 2 boosters a day. Today she did 50.
It seems uptake is very high in Chicago, a friend has to get hers in the loop because anything closer is already booked for 2 weeks.
We have to wait at least three more weeks because we got second booster too recently. Debating waiting longer - need to check exactly when it was we had Covid. Read a study suggesting stronger immune response to vaccine three months after infection.
Co-worker went to Dragon Con, now has covid. She is pretty sure she got it from the person she talked to for a while in close quarters who then happened to mention “oh yeah, I tested positive a couple days ago and my doctor said I shouldn’t be here but I am pretty sure it was a false positive, I just have a cold.
What is wrong with people? I get not wanting to lose all the money you sunk into a con, but, FFS.
Basically people are selfish. I got Covid on my Ireland trip because sick people on the tour said they had colds. My friend said by the end of the tour the whole bus had it but I was the only one admitting it. Then 32 people all got on planes to fly home.
Once again my only booster symptom is a sore arm. So wild how differently this affects folks.
ETA my husband and I got our Covid vaccines yesterday early evening. I woke up with a sore arm and thought I was fine, but once I started moving I realized not fine. I’ve spent most of the day in bed feeling crummy with random aches and pains and freezing. My husband is a bit tired, but otherwise fine. The 3 older folks (70-ish and 80-ish) that got shots Tuesday morning were all fine on Wednesday, but one of them needed to nap this morning. That person might just be tired due to traveling at age 80-ish.
I was planning to get my flu shot at the end of the month. Now I’m wondering if I should wait until the beginning of October in case I end up feeling like this. I have important to me plans at the end of the month. I hear waiting a little longer is good since the flu shot doesn’t last long enough, but I also hear the flu season might be bad and not to wait. I live in a 4 season climate with real winter. Hmm.
I got my covid booster. I ended up getting it at Walgreens. I forgot my covid card and it was fine, they gave me a new one with the first three spots X’d out. I’ll just write the new information on my existing card later.
I apparently got there at the right time, there was no one else waiting when I walked up for my appointment and shortly afterwards three other people were waiting for vaccines (mostly shingles I think, from what I overheard). The tech mentioned that today was busier, I said the timing works out well to get a vaccine on a Friday so I can spend Saturday feeling run down.
I did consider getting both shots in the same arm since I sleep on my side but they said it had to be in different arms. My mom got both of hers yesterday, she said her only symptom is a little arm stiffness and her Covid shot side is a little more stiff than her flu shot side.
Weird, my tech did them in the same arm 
My neighborhood refugee-owned independent pharmacy has given covid vaccinations to the most people in my whole state! No, not a chain - A tiny local pharmacy! No appointments, just walk in, get a shot, walk out!
They’re in my neighborhood and the line is around the block all the time, and they are super sweet. They only opened right after vaccines were available. The pharmacist also took 40 trips to cargo ships to vaccinate crew, most from countries without vaccine widely available yet. She also worked to do home vaccinations for at-risk people that couldn’t get to pharmacy.
“To date, LeCare Pharmacy has administered nearly 45,000 COVID-19 vaccines. The most shots they gave in one day was 777.”