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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by whatsupdog on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:08AM (#46573351)
How many COVID shots did you get? I noticed my resting heart rate go up after the first one. So I never got another one.
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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by hedayet on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:30AM (#46573718)
I got two. But these events started to happen 4 years after my last shot.
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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by nucleardog on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:22AM (#46573396)
When your immune system activity increases, generally so does your heart rate. It's fairly common to get sick and have an increased heart rate. A quick search for "heart rate when sick" will turn up a number of results explaining this, the mechanisms behind it, and more.

Sorry you missed out on simple, effective preventative health measures because of this misunderstanding.

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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by whatsupdog on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:47PM (#46581255)
It lasted over 6 months. My resting heart rate has been 52 for over 2 decades. Months after the shot it was up to 75 and stayed there for over 6 months. Slowly crept back to 52.
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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by konschubert on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:00AM (#46573573)
An immune response to any trigger temporarily increases the heart rate.
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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by Retz4o4 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:25AM (#46573408)
Or Covid itself.
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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by rsynnott on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:04AM (#46575401)
COVID vaccines (and various other vaccines), often cause flu-like symptoms for a day or so; you should've been warned about this at the time. Pretty much anything that gives you a fever will boost your heart rate a bit.
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