Ever Have A Bad Reaction To Flu Shot?

[Karen]

My arm is often kinda sore the next day - it just feels like a bruise. For me, my doctor commanded very sternly, the last time I was hospitalized for my asthma - which was years ago - that I get a flu shot every year. She even moved my annual exam to within flu shot season, so I wouldn't have to make a seperate trip.

[sirrahbed]

I have had to get one every year the last decade or so and recall only once where my arm throbbed enough to keep me awake. I was thinking about this post last night Liz and so went reading at the CDC site this morning. I found a statement that says 15-20% of people receiving the shot (killed vaccine) will have some degree of localized symptoms at the injection site. That made me feel less nervous since I am getting my vaccine on Thursday.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

My daughter did! The symptons were the same as for the real flu, only better; and she wasn't really sick

[Jods]

Whenever I get the flu shot it feels like I have been lifting weights for days!! I can't lift my arm up at all for like 3-4 days! I don't get the shot anymore!

[Karen]

Got my flu shot today, and a Tdap - Tentanus, Diptheria and Pertussis update. Tdap is the left arm, flu is the right, I'll let you know how the arms are tomorrow!

[lizbud]

Got my flu shot today, and a Tdap - Tentanus, Diptheria and Pertussis update. Tdap is the left arm, flu is the right, I'll let you know how the arms are tomorrow!

Karen, may I ask why you had the Tdap update shot? Does it have
anything to do with your Asthma? I thought people got those in preparation
for a overseas trip.


p.s. I said yesterday, the shot area did not hurt, but this morning I absent
mindedly scratched the spot & it hurt like heck. It throbbed for 1/2
a hour. I know, I'm a big baby.

[Edwina's Secretary]

The first two winters I was here in SoCal I did not get my usual flu shot and was sick with URI most of the winter -- after having gone four years in Chicago without a single cold. So this year I got my shot while it was still restricted to elderly and something else (asthma qualifed me...not elderly )

My arm was a little sore if I thought about it but it is so worth it to me!

p.s. You cannot get the flu from a flu shot -- it is NOT a live virus...

[Karen]

Karen, may I ask why you had the Tdap update shot? Does it have
anything to do with your Asthma? I thought people got those in preparation
for a overseas trip.


p.s. I said yesterday, the shot area did not hurt, but this morning I absent
mindedly scratched the spot & it hurt like heck. It throbbed for 1/2
a hour. I know, I'm a big baby.

I got the Tdap because my doc said it was time for my tetanus update, and with the resurgence of pertussis - whooping cough - of some college campuses - our area if just rife with colleges and the accompanying students - I might as well get the "whole package." After this shot, I'll only need a tetanus update every ten years.