Not good to be perpetually stoic @Nanny Beach that's why this forum is so good, we all need to vent, moan get irritated, just to keep those hormones in shape
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
After reading some horror stories of after effect, I’d like to put my story on. I don’t suppose anyone is interested but I’ll post this anyway
I took my pharmacists advise for a pain free jab, drop you arm as if reaching to the floor, that is the ultimate position for the muscle to relax, then for the rest of the day keep the arm down like that as much as you can, if you feel a twinge just drop the arm again, I have no sore arm, no swelling on the spot, you can’t even see where the needle went in, no pain at all, yesterday or today , I’m still dropping my arm just in case. I had a slight twinge in the armpit, dropped arm and it went away in minutes.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
My Mum read that before the jab you should exercise your arms and indeed the rest of you. She did arm exercises a while before the jab and later was a little delicate for a while but nothing major and no pain in her arm at all! So fling your arms about while waiting in the queue (you shouldn't hit anyone if they are 2 metres away!!!!)
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
I pulled something in my back the day before my jab. Couldn't drive, honorary SIL obliged, just about managed to totter into the surgery. Painless injection, home again.
Beyond a very slight tenderness over the site on my arm. had no other obvious reaction, but my attention was focussed elsewhere as back made moving very difficult. May have been some heaviness but legs and back seized up anyway if I didn't keep moving.
All ok now though, even managed a bit of weeding yesterday!
I have to do the 15 min sit down and don't move after every jab, ever since I had my TB jab at school, got half way down the corridor and went flat on my face.
In the paper the other day, it said cough, while you are having the jab, I e-mailed, said you should keep still, not be coughing. Tip, yes, relax arm, then as needle goes in, slowly breath in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth, as though blowing out a candle. I do weight, so my upper arms are pretty muscley, so I expect a bruise at least.
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I don’t suppose anyone is interested but I’ll post this anyway
I took my pharmacists advise for a pain free jab, drop you arm as if reaching to the floor, that is the ultimate position for the muscle to relax, then for the rest of the day keep the arm down like that as much as you can, if you feel a twinge just drop the arm again, I have no sore arm, no swelling on the spot, you can’t even see where the needle went in, no pain at all, yesterday or today , I’m still dropping my arm just in case. I had a slight twinge in the armpit, dropped arm and it went away in minutes.
She did arm exercises a while before the jab and later was a little delicate for a while but nothing major and no pain in her arm at all!
So fling your arms about while waiting in the queue (you shouldn't hit anyone if they are 2 metres away!!!!)