Sore arm after flu jab

I don’t know when we’ll get flu jabs, if ever, unless we pay for them, as the NHS in our area seems a complete shambles. I’ve only had two flu vaccine so far and apart from a vaguely sore arm, had no side effects. Dh has never had any side effects.

We’ve both had many vaccinations over the years due to having lived abroad and we’ve never had reactions apart from the aforementioned sore arms. I always think that a sore arm isn’t unexpected when someone has just jabbed a metal pipe into your flesh! There’s definitely a skill to administering it, as well. Some nurses/doctors have that skill, others don’t.

I had flu three years ago and felt like death warmed up for weeks. I do not want to experience that again.

Not psychosomatic if your arm swells up is it?

Anyway, all done. Long queues but sunny and warm, nurse said they expect to do 1000 today.
The only problem (apart from asking if you are generally well and haven’t had a bad reaction in the past) is if you have an egg allergy.

Probably a very rare side-effect, lindiann.

I had mine on Weds all fine, started to walk home got about half-way there and suddenly remembered I had left my car in the carpark. Does it effect memory

I’m having my flu jab tomorrow. I always feel ‘off’ for a few days afterwards. It’s normal for some of us.

Where there's no sense there's no feeling with me, even though the nurse botched up and drew blood which ran down my arm
It was even okay next day, arms like pipe-cleaners but skin like a rhino.

It is a not a live vaccine, so cannot give you any sort of illness. It does not actually kick in for about 10-12 days after receiving it, so if you have anything in your system prior to having it, or catch something in that first week,you will feel unwell (not the vaccine), Do think some people have a pyschosomatic reaction to this vaccine, expecting to feel ill afterwards.

Well the leaflet for this year’s over-65 adjuvanted vaccine states quite clearly that during clinical trials, very common side-effects have been observed (headache, muscular pain, pain at injection site) as well as common ones (including nausea, diarrhoea, fever, generally feeling unwell).

Our pharmacist warned us when we had our vaccinations that people had reported these to him as well.

We’ve been lucky like you and not had symptoms in previous years, but I have never thought that those who had were imagining it! Just as well, as this year DH and I had some of the common side-effects (headache, upset stomachs, fatigue) starting the same evening. And as we hadn’t been anywhere else for quite some time beforehand, it’s pretty certain that they were related to the jabs.

Obviously being mildly unwell is a very small price to pay for the protection given by the vaccine, but side-effects do actually happen!

I've been having this jab for many years and never have a bad reaction other than my arm is sore for about three days.
It's normal I think.

Have been having flu jab for past 19 years, some years get very sore arm, only one year did that get particularly bad. I have to sleep on my left side (due to have ostomy on my right), so have this done in my right arm.
It is a not a live vaccine, so cannot give you any sort of illness. It does not actually kick in for about 10-12 days after receiving it, so if you have anything in your system prior to having it, or catch something in that first week,you will feel unwell (not the vaccine),
Do think some people have a pyschosomatic reaction to this vaccine, expecting to feel ill afterwards.
Also do note that it is not totally effective, different years, according to flu strain it can be as low as twnety percent, other years as high as 80 percent, so normal hygiene precautions still need to be taken.
Influenza and and Pneumonia kills thousands every year. We just have never had daily figures shown on the news on how many people infected and dying - as they do with Corona.

Espee, if you are in the Greater Clyde and Glasgow Health Board area, some areas are sending appointments out by letter to aged 65 and over and holding in large open air places like a football stadium.
Our surgery website has a notice about this on their website.

They are being done by age, then birthday month.
I'm 65 and had mine at St Mirren football stadium two weeks ago.
My neighbour and my husband who are seventy are having theirs next week. It may be worth checking this out.

I had my flu jab on Tuesday. I went to the local pharmacy as I could not get an answer when I rang the Health Centre. The Pharmacist was really good, very quick and efficient. I barely felt anything, and my arm was sore for only one day afterwards.
I think a lot depends upon who delivers the injection.
My arm was painful for almost a week last year. The Nurse at the Health Centre was rather rough.

I’ve never had a reaction, sorry you are experiencing problems.
TBH I would happily swap with you. We can’t even get an appointment.?

DH and I have had flu jabs for the past 7 years, also shingles and pneumonia and have never had any problem whatsoever.

Isn’t it strange how they can affect people so differently.

I guess we are talking about hundreds of thousands of people who will have had the flu jab especially this year so quite obviously some of them will be harbouring various viruses beforehand which will give symptoms after the jab.

It’s all down to cause and effect isn’t it?

I think a slightly sore arm at the injection site is very common and mine was like that for a couple of days.

Maybe with all the social distancing, mask wearing and frequent hand washing still in place, we won’t have a bad year with flu this year.

Nevertheless, I hope the uptake of the vaccine is high this year.

How would hospitals cope with the double whammy of both flu and covid patients?

Both ours this week with no reaction apart from a slightly tender arm. I made sure I had it done in my left arm as I’m a right side sleeper.

My arm was sore for 2 days afterwards as it was for the pneumonia jab . A small inconvenience that is normal and of no consequence in my view for the benefit .

I hadn't had one for years, my reason was the same as everyone else who refuses it - very heavy cold immediately after, feeling generally 'off' for weeks etc etc. This year's recipe does seem to be giving everyone a very sore arm, more so than usual people tell me - so don't worry too much.
I think one of the reasons for this insistence by doctors is because they've noticed that people who've had it have a less severe experience of covid if they catch it. So I went for it this time - no real reaction apart from the sore arm and feeling under the weather - but when I come to think of it I do feel very weary and unenergetic at the moment and its been 2 and a bit weeks now
I hope I soon shake it off.

I had my first flu jab last month. No side effects whatsoever and I slept on that side the same night. Husband had a slightly sore arm for a day. My mother was always poorly after hers. So , you cannot predict how you’ll be after yours. Hopefully you will be fine.

OH and I had our flu jabs on Tuesday. He is absolutely fine, yet I felt under the weather and achy for a couple of days. My arm was red and swollen too.

SIL and Niece were quite poorly with their jabs, we have ours this morning, we shall see......

I had mine 2 weeks ago,the actual injection hurt,but that was more to do with the doctors technique,....think Norman Bates with a syringe....

Felt sleepy saturday afternoon,right as rain sunday.

I was injected in left arm as always,I sleep on my right,usually feel a bit off for a few days,but not this year,,I was fine

I had mine last Saturday. Apart from my arm being a bit sore for a couple of days I have been fine.

We had oursladt week. Absolutely no pain or swelling or side effects. They must use very fine needles as I hardly felt it at all. Changed days from the old reusable ones. I used to really dread injections.

I guess our various constitutions react differently. Mine was done four weeks ago and, apart from some stiffness, I felt fine and was well enough to drive to Portsmouth the following day. By chance, I chose to have it administered in my left arm and I sleep on right side.
Four years ago, I was so ill with flu, that my GP threatened to send me to hospital as I was on my own. Needless to say, that hastened recovery!!

I Ve never have any reaction at all in 7 years
I had mine last Saturday and never even felt the needle go in
I didn’t have any reactions to the shingles or pneumonia jabs either when I had them a few years back

You can’t get flu from the injection as it s not a live vaccine I wonder what component it is that some people are so sensitive to ? That’s the interesting question that no one ever seems to ask