OT: Flu vaccine.

Oct 07, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 65 Replies

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Pancho 5 years ago

Got the flu vaccine on Tuesday (Flucelvax Tetra), done at Lloyds.

I could hardly feel the injection and I just got around to taking the plaster off. I can't find an injection point, even with a microscope camera. No blood spot on the plaster. I've had no side effects.

Now, you might say I should be happy, but I'm starting to doubt I actually had an injection at all. I stupidly engaged the vaccinator in some chat about hitting a vein and aspirating the syringe to check, just a question not a request. Perhaps she thought I was trouble and decided it was safer to do nothing?

After the Covid jab I was suitably sick as a dog for a day, giving me that old foul tasting medicine confidence.

Note to self: In future always watch carefully as they inject me. I normally look away so that I don't tense as the needle goes in.

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Tim Streater 5 years ago

Good advice. I have the same doubt about my second covid jab.

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Andy Burns 5 years ago

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Brian 5 years ago

It isn?t unusual not to feel the jab and not to have a reaction.

I?ve been having the flu jab over a decade and rarely notice it or a reaction.

I had no reaction to the COVID jab, other than the mildest of discomfort at the injection point when I lay on my side in bed. Hardly an issue.

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Robin 5 years ago

all easily explained by your having been abducted and kept for a couple of weeks by time-travelling aliens

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Pancho 5 years ago

Good show. Why don't they make documentaries like that nowadays?

I'll be looking out for that gremlin clinging on to the outside of Blue Origin?s New Shepard when Bill Shatner takes his trip next Tuesday. We'll see if it can survive above 20,000 feet.

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Pancho 5 years ago

To be fair. I'm new to vaccines, for the past 25 years I've had yearly blood tests. They don't particularly hurt, but I'm always aware they have been done.

I guess vaccines must use finer needles or something?

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Brian 5 years ago

Whether you feel the needle depends on the person holding the syringe, at least in my experience.

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nightjar 5 years ago

They look to be about 24g (0.5mm) compared to the 16g (1.6mm) used to draw off blood.

I have been having the flu jab for years and never noticed any effects.

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Robin 5 years ago

IME they are indeed finer than phlebotomists usually use. Plus it's into a muscle rather than out of a vein. C.f. like many others I sometimes have bruises after phlebotomy; never after intramuscular vaccination.

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RJH 5 years ago

Very sore arm after mine - but no sign of 'puncture'.

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Bob Eager 5 years ago

I never feel a thing, and I'm watching!

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whisky-dave 5 years ago

I didn't feel anything for either of the vaccine jabs, I wasn't watching I had the AZ which was 0.3ml. Been geting txts asking me to book a for a flu jab but so far they haven;t picked up the phone, so difficult to book.

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Bob Eager 5 years ago

Got mine Saturday week.

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charles 5 years ago

It took over 2 weeks for the bruising from a recent blood test to fade away.

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Andrew 5 years ago

More to the point, will a 90-YO survive the immense G forces at lift off ?. Your major blood vessels become stiffer as you age and don't like unexpected stresses. Nice way to go though.

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Andrew 5 years ago

Green needles are for taking blood, unless the patient has annoyed you when a larger one could be used :-)

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Andrew 5 years ago

Are you on any medication that might reduce your platelet count or make them less effective, like aspirin or nurofen ?

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PeterC 5 years ago

I didn't! - she hit the bone and that was painful. I pointed out that there wasn't much muscle and try a shallower angle. She was a pharmacist; no such trouble with the nurse on the first jab.

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