I absolutely believe in vaccination. But I hate getting my tetanus shot. :-(

[Coventina]

I got my tetanus booster on Tuesday. Now it's Friday and I still have a large, painful knot in my upper arm.


However, it's better than getting tetanus.


When your doc or other medical provider tells you it's time, don't delay.

[CountAllVotes]

1. Tetanus

There are 30 cases of tetanus a year in the USA.

After the last shot I had, I'll just forget it being you supposedly need one every 10 years. Now they say every 5 years.

Money money as tetanus is not a contagious disease.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. a nurse told me, if you can't remember your last tetanus shot, you need another

[CountAllVotes]

6. I had a written record of it on me

It was in 2012 and they got me again and wow did it ever make me sick!

[RobinA]

15. What If

I can remember my last tetanus shot and it was 40 years ago? That thing hurts!

[Aristus]

12. I tell my patients every ten years.

It's not a huge priority for me the way influenza is.

Everyone thinks 'rusty nail - equals - tetanus'; but that's not necessarily the case. A lot of the cases from the early modern allopathic medicine era were patients from farms who scratched themselves on rusty nails. So people thought that's what causes tetanus. But it was the animal manure smeared onto the nails that caused it.

Fewer people live on farms these days, with less contact with manure, soil, and other environments Clostridium tetany likes to live in.

So once every ten years is fine with me.

[LiberalFighter]

30. So leave rusty nails smeared with farm manure to your favorite people? Hmm

[Aristus]

31. Ha-ha. No it was the nails out in the barns. I must not have worded that so it made sense.

[ret5hd]

13. Do you think those 30 were vaccinated?

Do you think maybe some of the reason there are only 30/yr is because of vaccinations?

[CountAllVotes]

18. I don't know

[ret5hd]

19. I wonder how many cases of polio there were in the U.S. last year.

Maybe we can dispense with those vaccines as well.

[CountAllVotes]

20. That is a poor idea

n/t

[ret5hd]

28. Just using your logic.

[CountAllVotes]

33. What logic?

I stated that the tetanus shot made me sick.

I believe I was over-vaccinated due to greed as that is what I was told by the medical office I had to go to being I got so sick.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Yep. Deconstructing the deck and stepped on a rusty screw which went right through my shoe.

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After two days, I was so wigged-out that I went and got a booster, forgetting I had one 2 years earlier.

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[CountAllVotes]

36. You can definitely overdo it

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I learned the hard way.

It was too bad they didn't pay attention as I was not due for another 4+ years and it sickened me far more than the bite did (reason for another shot).

The doctor was pissed!

[Midnightwalk]

2. Lockjaw?

I can think of some representatives that would be better not talking.

[Raftergirl]

21. I got lock jaw (Dental Trismus)

from a shot of novocain hitting a muscle while having a crown done. 6 weeks 3xweek of PT, daily Valium, and alternating Ibuprofen and acetaminophen every four hours for weeks. All I could “eat” for the first several weeks was McDonald’s milk shakes - so I’d have at least something heavy in my stomach taking so many meds.

[Midnightwalk]

23. Sorry to hear

I apologize for bringing up bad memories. Watching the hearings I just wished jordan, nunes and stefanik would shut up.

I know how hard it is to go without eating for weeks. Didn’t mean to remind you.

[Raftergirl]

29. No worries!

And we all wish they would STFU or better yet - get thrown onto the garbage heap of history in 2020.

[marlakay]

4. I am getting second shingles shot Tuesday

Not looking forward to it as first shot arm was hot, swollen and sore where they gave shot for days. But I have known people who had shingles and it was very very awful.

[Nitram]

7. My wife developed blisters around the injection site for the shingles vaccine. I had no reaction at

all. Knowing how severe shingles is, neither of us would hesitate to do it agin.

[marlakay]

8. Feel same way

I have those cloth blue cold packs that I used and worked great.

[Leghorn21]

9. Hey marlakay! My first shingle shot hurt bad, too!! I have never had such a wicked reaction to

a shot before, OUCH - I swear to you, months later now, there’s a tender knot at the site!!

BUT: happy to tell you that, yeah, I kinda dreaded the second one, and it was nuthin! No big deal!

My late USMC combat veteran father had shingles on his back in the mid-80’s, and it like to took him out...shingles are NO GOOD

You’ll be fine, my friend!!

[marlakay]

11. Thanks

Having one of those medical months, shots and biopsy on mole and now more done same place for atypical cells in a few weeks.

Part of me feels like a whiney kid, I want to go back to when I was younger and didn’t have to think of my health so much. Have other things going on too but nothing real bad.

[Leghorn21]

27. Aw, yeah, you're getting smacked a little too hard with all kinds of "adult" responsibilities

all at once!! Booooo!! - but you’ll do what you gotta and it will all be in your rear view mirror pronto!

Hang tough, mar!

[ellie]

10. I got my first

shingles shot along with my flu shot last month and I didn't think it was that bad. I was laying on my arm that night in bed. I hope it doesn't hurt too bad for you!

[Raftergirl]

22. The second shot

wasn’t as painful for me as the first. But I made sure to keep moving my arm constantly and I iced it every so often.

[Mersky]

5. Maybe soak that sore spot with warm water and Epsom salt?

Have some extra leafy greens? Gives a boost of vitamin A and K - helps with healing.

Are the things I would do.

Otherwise, I'm reminded I need to get a tetanus shot in the next year.

[RainCaster]

14. I hate the reasons for getting my tetanus shot worse!

I always end up getting an update when I'm in the emergency clinic for putting a nail through my hand (nail gun), cutting a bare foot on sharp metal, or landing an arm in a lava patch while snorkeling. The conservative doctors I will pay attention to.

[cwydro]

16. Funny, my mom grew up in the age when tetanus was a thing.

She actually knew a childhood friend who died of it. (In Wales, in the early 30s). She was fanatical about our shots.

As a southern girl, I was frequently barefoot in summer. Still am.

I do keep up on my tetanus shots. I’m really bad about stepping on stuff lol. But I’ll stay barefoot forever.

[Thyla]

17. I'm fairly reliable in I tend to do....

things at times, roughly 10 years apart that requires a doctor to ask me when was my last booster?
So we top up, lol

[Greybnk48]

24. The new shingles shot is no slouch when it comes to pain either!

It didn't hurt when I got it. I even teased my husband because he had complained about it; called him a big baby. Welp, the day after the shot and for at least 3 more days my arm was toast. Couldn't touch it, bump it, or raise it quickly. I had to eat some crow, of course.

Just FYI. My doc says that doesn't happen to everyone.

[StarryNite]

25. Remember the vaccination 'gun'?

As a kid I was terrified of needles, actually I still am. We used to get the vaccinations in school. One year they were using those 'guns' instead of needles. I was so relieved to hear there wasn't going to be a needle poking into my arm. Turned out the gun was far, far more painful!

[Aristus]

32. Yeah, I got needles and the guns when I was getting my Army immunizations.

The guns hurt like crazy!

[TheBlackAdder]

35. I learned the trick. Just ask for an 25 gauge needle that they use on kids. It costs a dime more.

.

By default, doctors will use a 20 or 22 gauge needle.

But, if they use a 25 gauge needle, they just need to be slower going into muscle, but no pain.

It also takes a couple seconds longer to give an injection. I donate blood, so the needles don't bother me, but my adult kids, they are now used to the 25 gauge needles and that's all they ask to get. They've never been turned down.

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[rurallib]

26. I am lucky that vaccinations seldom bother me

The second shingles shot bothered me a little.

Been giving blood for a long time and I guess needles no longer bother me.
When they were doing white cell donations I would get a shot to make me sick (stimulate white cells) the night before a donation. That would affect me quite a bit.