SIRVA Beware this is real

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Last year approximately 150 million doses of flu vaccine was distributed in the U.S. Can you imagine the wait in a Drs office if all those shots had to be given there? If flu shots were only given by nurses or Drs I wonder how many more people would die from the flu each year because they couldn't afford the extra expense of paying for an office visit just to get a flu shot....or just didn't take the time to do it.

All I know is that while I don't have the flu my arm is sore as H. I can't move my arm without pain in certain directions and angles. Thank god it doesn't hurt when it's hanging straight down. But if I have to reach up it hurts like H. It's been over three weeks now.

What I am saying is that people who give us these shots need to be trained in how to do it properly. Evidently in my case something went wrong.

I'm leaning towards the fact that the shot (needle) was placed in the wrong spot. Too high up on the shoulder and not in the muscle properly. How hard could it be to give a shot properly?

The girl that gave me the shot was brand new at this pharmacy as she told me that herself. She was working alone and without any supervision at the time she gave me the shot. I'm thinking that she is not the pharmacist. I'm thinking that she is one of the techs.

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All I know is that while I don't have the flu my arm is sore as H. I can't move my arm without pain in certain directions and angles. Thank god it doesn't hurt when it's hanging straight down. But if I have to reach up it hurts like H. It's been over three weeks now.

What I am saying is that people who give us these shots need to be trained in how to do it properly. Evidently in my case something went wrong.

I'm leaning towards the fact that the shot (needle) was placed in the wrong spot. Too high up on the shoulder and not in the muscle properly. How hard could it be to give a shot properly?

The girl that gave me the shot was brand new at this pharmacy as she told me that herself. She was working alone and without any supervision at the time she gave me the shot. I'm thinking that she is not the pharmacist. I'm thinking that she is one of the techs.

Pharmacy Techs are strictly forbidden to give shots of any kind. If you got the shot a chain pharmacy such as Kroger or Wal-Mart the Pharmacist was probably a floater. Most newbs start out that way. By what you're saying I agree that it sounds like the vaccine was given too high in your shoulder. Going forward in the future when they swab your shoulder with the prep pad and it feels like it's too high say something before you get the shot. Sorry that has happened to you and I hope you get better soon.

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Pharmacy Techs are strictly forbidden to give shots of any kind. If you got the shot a chain pharmacy such as Kroger or Wal-Mart the Pharmacist was probably a floater. Most newbs start out that way. By what you're saying I agree that it sounds like the vaccine was given too high in your shoulder. Going forward in the future when they swab your shoulder with the prep pad and it feels like it's too high say something before you get the shot. Sorry that has happened to you and I hope you get better soon.

I was distracted right as she was giving me the shot. The Thoracic Surgeon who performed my 8 hour long open heart surgery came into the area where I was getting the shot and stood about 3 to 5 ft in front of me as he was looking at eye glasses on display in the area where I was getting the shot. I recognized him as he was still in his operating scrubs. He lives in my area and also goes to the same eye doctor that I go to. I have seen and talked to him at the eye doctor's office once before. I was talking to him when the lady gave me the shot. I didn't notice any pain at the time of the shot. In fact it was the least painful shot that I've got in a while. It stung a little bit when the needle went in but I'm so used to getting IV's these day and having blood drawn that the needle in the arm doesn't bother me much these days. It was only after I got the shot that my arm got sore. It started when I got home from the grocery store and put the groceries away. As I was watching TV that night about an hour later I noticed the pain starting and getting worse with movement of my arm in certain directions.

It was a day or two later when I was trying to get the band aid off my arm that I noticed just how high up on the arm the band aid was placed. I filed that information away in my brain and figured that the arm would go back to normal in a few days. But after two weeks of pain still there I decided to look up "arm pain after getting a flue shot" on the google search engine and found out about this problem. That was when I started to worry that the pain may never go away completely. I went though physical therapy with my right shoulder for a long time and the pain in the right shoulder from another injury is finally gone away for the most part. I can move my right shoulder without pain these days but it took almost two years for the pain in that right shoulder to subside.

I have an appointment next week with my Orthopaedic doctor and he will tell me what's going on. I'm still icing the left shoulder once or twice a day and that's helping a little bit. But it's still very painful when I move it in certain directions above my head.

I'll find out who that new girls is the next time I get my prescriptions refilled as I know the other girls and I'll ask them about her.