I had my flu shot last week and my arm is still sore(aching at times)don`t remember ever having this much of a reaction before.I will live tho!!

Yes Springy I had my shot at a chemist too and I think as well the pain is to do with the spot I was jabbed in. Will definitely see the doc shortly if this keeps up.

Thanks for your input Nicnacs . Seems its not uncommon to have pain a week later, That makes me feel a bit better. I was googling the other night and came across SIRVA. Have a look at that. Truly frightening

look, its a free country, no one forces you to have any vaxination.

 

yes you should go see a doctor if your concerned.

 

also be careful with reading things on the internet about anything medical as for every genuine site with real information there are hundreds of idiots pretending to be experts.

 

i stick to australian govt sites if i cant get to a doctor quickly.

 

you may have heard the problems our country is having with people reading stupid things on the internet then not vaxinating their babys and children for anything. i dont care if some nitwits kid gets sick because they are too dumb to vax their kids, but i do care when their stupidity affects others kids. mainly babys too young to be vaxinated.

 

who knows, maybe when you had your needle a little germ got in there and is causing your pain. whenever you stick a needle in your body there is allways a chance for an infection. they allways warn you if you have an adverse reaction come back and see us....well they do at the medical centre i go to.

Yes I know David one has to be careful as its easy to read too much into Dr Google and every person experiences pain in their own way. Certainly I was not advocating people forego vaccinating their kids etc and Im sure you knew that. My post I think is pretty much specific to prolonged pain after a fluvax for whatever reason.

I am immuno-suppressed, as a result of my heart transplant, and I haven't had a flu shot in 27 years.......the two times I followed doctor's orders, I ended up with major rejection problems........

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I am immuno-suppressed, as a result of my heart transplant, and I haven't had a flu shot in 27 years.......the two times I followed doctor's orders, I ended up with major rejection problems........

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wow if you don`t mind me asking but how long since you have had your heart transplant?am interested as my late husband received a kidney and pancreas transplant.tia

I don't think it is meant to cause intense pain a week later. To me that signals that there is a problem. Maybe an infection of some kind at the site. That should not happen, they should sterilise that patch of skin before the injection.Or at least, they wiped that part of my arm beforehand.

Definitely let the doctor know where you had it done & maybe go into the chemist's and tell them too. Show them, if it is still red.

Also I have heard that often the jab is put into a muscle which is wrong but easy to do, and would cause severe pain.  So it sounds to me that the cause could be with the person who did the injection.  I've always had the vax each year and there's never even been tenderness.