what they’ve read /learned about fibro and vaccines , specifically the COVID shots
Healthrising did several enormous polls for this, where you can estimate for yourself which vaccine type might give you what and how severe side effects and there is also a page with information how you can moderate those.
(Me: I used them before my first jab and worked out I might have 2-4 weeks of issues after the 1st jab. I actually haven't recovered from any of them yet, altho I'm doing lots of things to improve most symptoms. LD N is the first thing bringing the energy back to before the jabs.
Then I’ve had 5 Covid shots/ boosters . I just had the flu shot and felt awful after it for a week (this has never happened) and I guess I’m technically due to get the new Covid shot 3 months after I’ve had Covid . I’m really afraid to get it , and actually my pain management dr said she didn’t recommend it for me when I pushed her to be candid about what she felt.
No problems with 5 CoV-jabs and only one week from the flu shot sounds like taking it. On the other hand here in Germany many people incl. experts are recommending to only get a 4th (not 6th) shot if you don't expect too big issues. (One week we don't consider as an issue.) The Covid variants are here nowadays considered not more than a severe flu. That'd be like the recommendation of your pain doc.
Me: Despite being severely debilitated by the jabs I took 3, my allergist recommended me to take them. Now with the 4th docs are telling me not to take them. But I'm masking and distancing and my wife tries to be careful, too.
don’t want to get really sick from Covid either , and I can’t take Paxlovid it makes me really sicker with the GI Side effects, but getting the shot is supposed to “keep you out of the hospital “whatever that exactly means .
Just curious people’s thoughts about this .
Yes, these are the questions that need to be answered individually.
You are in the "brilliant" situation compared to me that you don't seem to have any form of Long Covid (from Covid or from vac) even after 5 jabs and 3x CoV. That to me sounds like you have minimal to no risk from getting the 6th jab and minimal to no risk from getting CoV. I've heard of quite a few people getting a week of problems after the 4th jab altho the first were OK, but I can't remember hearing or reading in studies how high the probability is to get it after "surviving" 8 meetings with it.
I’ve tried to search about Covid vaccine with FM, I’ve found posts a few years old but curious about recent thoughts .
Strange that you didn't come across mine, cos I mention it in half of my posts that I have jab-triggered MCAS which have greatly decreased my energy from 30% from fibro down to 10%. Maybe because I usually write "jab" and "CoV"....
It’s like which is worse to have happen , flare up from shot then still get covid anyhow, or roll the dice with how you’ll be if you get covid without getting the vaccine
Yes, it's roll the dice. In those kinds of situations I always come out with no regrets. You can't win and you can't lose. Well no: I can't win and I can't lose. You will after 8x in all probability come out winning.
Me: I will in all probability come out losing even more after another jab, but feel fairly protected against CoV: I've had my first bout this year (testing negative, cos my wife and I distanced as soon as she knew she had it) and only had a month of problems, which is peanuts compared to what the jabs did.
I’ve just been one of those ppl who get all the vaccines recommended all my life
Me: I've always had severe intolerances to meds on the one hand and my fibro was likely triggered by swine flu on the other - so my wife and I, and my docs too, knew it's a high risk for me either way.
I didn’t have any major reactions from the first 5 other than sore arm , fatigue a few days
If I didn’t get it this time and ended up in hospital I’d feel stupid also especially since I’m such a vaccine proponent
Well, I'd say you don't have to get a jab just cos you are a proponent of doing so, cos you have a special condition that might change things.
People even without intolerances, even young people get post vac which is still subsumed under "Long Covid" (I think wrongly, even tho there are overlaps). You could end up in hospital or bed/house from vac, too. Again here in Germany there was an article from one of my hospital professors in the local paper saying you will hardly end up in hospital from Covid and even if you did you won't get much problems from it. That again would favour not getting the jab.
Another question is how prepared you are to mask and distance in critical situations
(like me). If you aren't, that of course increases the risk of getting CoV but not its severity, seeing as you had 3x without much problems. But still I'd favour what
your doc says - if that is an individual decision for you, not a principal anti-vac one.
Seems a mental thing to me. She assumes it'd be better if I'd move out to a friend's for that time, but in my experience she needs me too much for that too, and can't endure that either... Catch 22... 
. So for me it's important not to get caught in that web, cos it's not my problem and I won't let it get to me.