Tetanus Shot--Did yours hurt??

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:crying2:Well I had the tetorifice shot today and I must say, shots normally dont bother me, but my arm is literally throbbing and killing me and that is AFTER taking two aleve! Did you guys have a similiar result with this shot or I am I just lucky??

I got a tetorifice shot when I was a teenager and I will never forget it, a large portion of my arm was swollen and in a lot of pain. It hurt for several days and I remember keeping ice on it.

I also had a bad reaction to the typhoid vaccine a few years ago before I deployed to the desert. I got a bad fever and started crying at work. Thank God they sent me home. I was a mess!

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

These are notorious for causing a lot of pain hours afterwards. My whole arm was sore for a few days.

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Oh man . . i wish i didnt read this thread . LOL. . I wasn't even worried about it until i read this. I don't know if I'd rather expect the worst or just go in blind not knowing what to expect. Geez . .i keep checking to see when someone's gonna say "Ohhh its not bad at all" .. . hahaha . . its okay . .deep breaths . . Its for a good cause . . :uhoh3:

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Specializes in telemetry/med surg.
Oh man . . i wish i didnt read this thread . LOL. . I wasn't even worried about it until i read this. I don't know if I'd rather expect the worst or just go in blind not knowing what to expect. Geez . .i keep checking to see when someone's gonna say "Ohhh its not bad at all" .. . hahaha . . its okay . .deep breaths . . Its for a good cause . . :uhoh3:

LOL I understand, I did EXACTLY the same thing before I went and got mine. I looked on the net and it was astounding how many people had a hard time it. I was excited though because the shot itself DID not hurt at all, seriously! It wasn't until about 12 hours later that it REALLY started hurting. Today is day two and it is just SORE. No fever or none of the other symptoms, just really really super sore!

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I got my tetorifice shot along with hep 1...same arm too! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I have my last hep to go coming up in Sept.

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ughhh. i got my tetorifice shot in my RIGHT arm.. it was dead for like 3 days. i was miserable. worst shot ever! (besides gardasil.) lol.

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ughhh. i got my tetorifice shot in my RIGHT arm.. it was dead for like 3 days. i was miserable. worst shot ever! (besides gardasil.) lol.

LOL I havent had the gardasil shot, but my daughter did, and apparently a side effect of it is fainting, like 20 minutes later she just passed out cold! I am just glad that we only have to get ONE tetorifice shot for now! I dont know if I could handle a repeat dose!

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Well the good news is that although there are potential side effects, you have a chance of not experiencing them at all. I never had a bad reaction to any of my Gardasil shots, but as you can see, others have.

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I just had my tetorifice shot , hep B vacc, and TB skin test. Both arms are sore and I wont be working out for a few days.

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Specializes in telemetry/med surg.

day three, and arm is STILL sore and swollen~ the size of an egg, and extremely painful to touch! Man this was a doozey LOL!

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when the nurse administered it, it wasn't that bad... after the shot, my arm got really painful, verrrryyy sore, and itchy... i even had a fever... the pain and soreness lasted for a week... i wasn't even warned i'd get this reaction and i had to take care of my 2 small kids who always wanted to be carried... thank goodness i'm over that until another 10 years... now i know how my babies feel everytime they get shots from the doctor, and they always get 2-4 shots everytime...

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Specializes in CTICU.

I couldn't lay on the injected arm without pain for over a week when I recently got the Tdap.

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