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Reply: Arm/Shoulder Still EXTREMELY Painful after Flu Sho...

You're probably right in most cases mikemike but my experience was just the opposite. For...

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You will heal but it will take considerable time. Nobody heals in less than 2 months and most...

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288 Replies | Reply | Watch This DiscussionReport This| Share this:Arm/Shoulder Still EXTREMELY Painful after Flu Shot Over 3 Weeks Ago.. You will heal but it will take considerable time. Nobody heals in less than 2 months and most...

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Did you get the shot VERY HIGH up on your arm, almost at the shoulder? If not the pain should...

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288 Replies | Reply | Watch This DiscussionReport This| Share this:Arm/Shoulder Still EXTREMELY Painful after Flu Shot Over 3 Weeks Ago.. Did you get the shot VERY HIGH up on your arm, almost at the shoulder? If not the pain should...

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It's been over three months now and although I am not completely pain free it's nearly so. I...

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There is one board certified family physician on this chat who had it happen to them and is...

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It's not so much the vaccine rather it's the location. All people in this blog (including...

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Well it will be 3 months on January 3rd and the arm is much improved. The pain is there but...

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Well Doctory I feel bad that you're now a part of this group but I am pleased, if that's the...

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Well Doctory I feel bad that you're now a part of this group but I am pleased, if that's the right word, that we have a member of the medical community on board.

My doctor still refuses to believe it was the injection even though it started the next day on the arm that hat received the shot and that had not been injured or stressed in any way. Even considering that I'd been taking Flu shots every year for over 25 years with no ill effects. He did prescribe an anti-inflammitory to be taken at breakfast and dinner. I asked about an additional one since they only gave me relief for 7 or 8 hours but he said no . . . and said no to any NSAID pain killer (understandable since they too are anti-inflammitorys) . . . said to take a couple of Tylenol(tm). Might as well have eaten a couple of M&M's for all the good they did.

Finally I gave up and took matters into my own hands. After much internet research the regimen that worked for me was to take the anti-inflammitory's as directed and then I dug out a bottle of 325MG Percocets I had left over from a rotator cuff surgery I'd had on the other arm a year earlier. I took one of them at bed time and they let me sleep. *** Please skip the mandatory lecture about self medication and old drugs. I'm perfectly aware of that. In fact I hate to take pills of any kind and won't unless it's necessary. That's why I had the Percocets left. I could handle the pain after surgery and so didn't use them. *** At this point though I felt like I only had two options . . . kill the pain or kill myself.

Anyway it's been 9 weeks now and I'm down to only one anti-inflammitory a day and I've been able to sleep without a pain pill for the last 5 nights. I still have pain but it's low level enough that I can get some decent sleep. At this pace I hope to be pretty close to normal in another 4 or 5 weeks.

Thanks for anything you can do to stop this. It's inexcusable that so many people are suffering such great pain simply because a needed Flu shot was given in the wrong location by people they trusted.

I tell everybody that if you see them attempting to give you a flu shot high on your shoulder, refuse it and tell them to move it down an inch or you'll go elsewhere.

Welcome aboard. Glad you're here.View Thread

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Dec. 3rd was the 2 month anniversary of my screwed up flu shot. I celebrated it by sleeping...

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Unable to find a lawyer willing to take it on a contingency basis and I simply don't have the...

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