Flu and Covid jabs in the same arm….

I have, always been fine. I've had skin cancer on one arm and don't want to aggregate the tissue as it can get really itchy.

When you say cleared do you mean removed?

I posted this link on a recent similar thread:

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/covid-booster-flu-shot-arm-soreness/671444/

Which arm gets picked for which shot, though, will affect where the jab’s contents end up. After a vaccine is injected, its immunity-inducing ingredients meander to the nearest lymph node, such as the ones in the armpits. There, hordes of immune cells fight over the vaccine’s bits, and the fittest and fiercest among them are selected to leave the lymph node and fight. Here, again, doubling up on one arm shouldn’t be an issue, Goel said: The immune-cell boot camps in these lymph nodes have “a good amount of real estate.”

Read the whole article as it discusses more about how immune cells work and the arguments about having vaccines separately or at the same time, in the same arm or different arms.

Perhaps talk to a nurse about having the vaccinations in another part of your body?

Had our Saturday the nurse said she wasn’t allowed to put both injections in one arm

I had mine in the same arm last Autumn, and both at the same time, two separate needles. I was fine afterwards and only had the usual sore arm for a couple of days.

I think I am right in saying that flu vacc can be given in the thigh - perhaps worth asking if you are concerned.

I had both in the same arm last time on the same day and the nurse said it was fine. I was absolutely OK

Went today and they had run out! Re-booked for 4th October.

Man said that they had the funding cut after the spring booster and had to release staff .

So now they are short of jabs and staff.

annsixty I've had a mastectomy and lymph node clearance and never allow that arm to be used for vaccinations or the taking of blood pressure.

But personally I think that having 2 vaccines on the same day is too much for the body to handle, especially if the patient has other health concerns. I am having my Covid booster at the surgery and the 'flu one a week later at Boots.... but then I'm juggling a lot of health conditions including M.E.

rosie1959

Had our Saturday the nurse said she wasn’t allowed to put both injections in one arm

Interesting that the nurse said that.
Prior to having Covid and flu jabs last Monday I had to fill in a form. There was a question about which arm I wanted to have the injection in, left or right?
Most people had both jabs in the same arm. I had one in each arm.

I suspect that's a local protocol.

I can't have a jab in my left arm and I don't want both in the same arm at the same time. There doesn't seem to be any valid medical reason why I shouldn't have them together, but it's a personal choice. I haven't had any side effects from any of the jabs I've had, but if I do, I want to know which one has caused it. For me, it was easy enough to arrange to have them done on separate days, but I think I would have asked to have one done in my thigh, if it had been a problem.

I've had two vaccinations on the same day without ill-effects but never two in the same arm. The idea of having one in your thigh seems sensible.
Sometimes you get a stiff arm and I'd hate a doubly stiff one!

I certainly would not get both in same arm on same day.

I felt a little off the next day after having two but nothing very much I don’t know if it was one of the vaccinations not that it really matters. I had the different flu jab from previous times this was the one for over 65s as opposed to under

Had both in the same arm earlier this week. No problem at all.

Mine are on consecutive days in two different pharmacies. I am hoping they will use both arms as one might be a little painful the next day.

growstuff the valid reason for not having both done on the same day is if you have a reaction to one, and it does happen, you would not necessarily know which it was because the arm is not always affected.

I personally never have flu and Covid injections on the same day but I can understand why the OP does.

I am fortunate I can at present walk to my local pharmacy but for how much longer I do not know.

I had both done a couple of weeks ago. I had them both in my left arm so that my right arm would be usable if there was any stiffness afterwards. As usual I had no problems at all.

I had lymph nodes removed on left side and will not risk lymphodema.
In any case nothing on earth would persuade me to have both jabs on the same day.
I had my 7th(I think) covid jab in June and unlike all
the preceding ones it floored me with shivers, palpitations and arm pain.

wildswan16

I think I am right in saying that flu vacc can be given in the thigh - perhaps worth asking if you are concerned.

My sister was unable to have jabs in either arm this year and she was given one in each thigh

I had to have both in one arm last year and I was fine.

I had flu and covid in the same arm last Saturday. I have a bad hip and always sleep on the other good side so didn't want any jabs on the good side. It was fine. I could feel it for two days after but that was exactly the same for my husband who had one in each arm. It wasn't at all bad though.

I also have lymphoedema following mastectomy and lymph node removal so I can’t have jabs in that arm.

I usually have covid and flu jabs a couple of weeks apart but I’m sure I have in the past had one - flu? - in the thigh.

I asked for mine to be in the same arm but was told they weren’t allowed to.

We have to put them in separate arms, then you know which was the culprit if you get a skin reaction.
The thigh is used if both arms not available.