Please help me ease my worries! My family is extremely anti-vax, but I want to be healthy and live a normal life, so I am getting my first dose this Friday. Between the fear that my family has instilled in my mind of the (extremely rare) side effects and my overall health anxiety, and also having to keep this a big secret from my family to avoid any chaos, I just cannot seem to calm my nerves. My sweet significant other is going to get the vaccine with me so I will have great support, but I would love to hear positive experiences and words of encouragement from my fellow vaccinated redditors. Should I expect immediate symptoms? Will I be bedridden for the weekend? How can I stay calm at the time of injection to avoid a total panic attack in the immunization office? Should I rest or exercise to alleviate symptoms? I got so many vaccines as a kid, why is this so scary as an adult?