Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration SIRVA is a real problem and it's effected me.

I went to get my annual flue shot at Schnuck's Pharmacy on Nov 1th a Tuesday night around 8 pm. I was shopping and figured I'd get my flu shot at the pharmacy. I had been to my family doctor the month before and he gave me a written prescription for a flu shot, pneumonia shot and also a shingles prevention shot. I figured I'd get the flu shot at the Doctor's Office but they didn't offer the shot to me. They instead ordered me to get it at my pharmacy for some reason.

I reget this now. The lady at the pharmacy that night was new and told me she was new. I had not seen here working there before and I have been going there for the last 7 years. I know all the people that work there as I've been going there for a long time now. I'm in there at least once a month and do my grocery shopping there too.

After I got the shot I noticed that she gave me the shot high up on my shoulder. I don't remember ever getting a shot that high up on my shoulder. Normally they gave it to me in the arm. The pain started about a hour after I got the shot. And I've had extreme pain in the left shoulder ever since I got that shot. I can't move my arm without pain at times.

I'm going to make an appointment with my family doctor and am worried. I waited a for a while to make sure that it was not just normal pain from getting a flu shot. Now before I've had a slightly sore arm for a day or so and then it cleared up and the soreness went away. It was never extremely painful like this time. I'm going to see my family doctor and see if he what he says.

But if you are going to get a flu shot this year I'd recommend that you get it from a RN instead of someone at the pharmacy. The person giving the flu shot needs to be trained in human anatomy because if they insert the needle into the wrong spot it can create a lot of pain and potentially do damage to the shoulder rotator cuff area.