Not like you describe. It feels like I was punched in the arm where the shot went for about a day but nothing drastic.

Now my tetanus shot hurt like the dickens.

Shot didn't hurt....arm was a little sore after a bit. several days last itched a lot.

For me, some years it hurts more than others. Taking NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc.) and waiting it out is exactly the right thing to do. There is no permanent harm from it.

Try getting some of the more exotic vaccinations you need to travel in places like rural Africa... Those can really hurt, especially because pre-travel vaccinations tend to involve multiple shots at once.

Still many, many times better than hospitalization or death from preventable disease!

My flu shot hurt going in and my arm hurt all day and all of the next day. I've never had the flu shots "hurt" before and have been getting them for many years.

I also got a flu shot at CVS the other day. I didn't even feel the shot and had no soreness or pain in my arm afterwards. I wonder if soreness or lack of soreness depends partly on the skill of the person giving the shot?

I might have read somewhere this years shot does hurt more?

Vaccines are not the same year to year as the flu virus strains are not the same year to year and they modify the vaccines to address changes in the flu strain. So it is entirely possible that this year's vaccine will produce a different and possibly inflammatory reaction to those sensitive to it.

It seems to me (and I've read something about this,) if the shot is given too high in the arm it can ache for a very long time; I've had this happen. Now, every time I'm about to receive one I ask the nurse to go as low on my arm as she can, and haven't had that terrible achy pain since. I'm not sure why they're giving the shots so high in the arm these days.

I recently had to get a tetanus shot in the ER after an injury. Both the doctor and the nurse said they hurt, they just hurt. Nothing to be done for it, they just hurt.

If I hadn't witnessed the shot, I wouldn't have known they did it. No pain, nothing. Not during the shot, not after.

The actual shot hurt but there were no after aches at all.

Mine hurt when I got it and my arm was sore. The pharmacist said it was bc I lost weight and need to build up muscle.

Dislike getting shots and that hurt, but not overly. No pain in arm til the next day when It felt as if it was badly bruised. That lasted three days and I could not sleep on that side.

DH is finally feeling better. He got a flu shot and was very stiff in his neck and shoulders for almost a week. I tell him whatever he experienced, think how much more worse the real flu would've been.

I think the needle should go into *muscle*, so we might blame some of this on the 'shooter'. DH and I had our flu shot already; no pain beyond the 'bite' as the vaccine went in.

I hope everyone has had that 'second' pneumonia vaccine that came out a couple of years ago! It covers more varieties of pneumonia than the one we probably all had many years ago.

Aok, my tetanus shot felt like they were injecting molasses in my arm. So thick.

Mine was a tad sore for about two hours like someone punched me, but nothing after that. Husband felt nothing.

have only had one flu shot in my entire life... last year at W-mart pharmacy. needle was so small/thin, really no sensation at all, but did have a kinda sudden warmth in that area.

vicsgirl, that is so strange. Be sure to tell your primary doctor the next time you have an appointment.

My injection was a bit painful when being administered, which is unusual, but didn't bother me at all afterward. I'd be sort of concerned if I had a reaction like you describe.

Some years, I have had soreness for a day or two. Not this year - absolutely nothing. I got the "over -65 shot" and a shot for whooping cough - too many unvaccinated children out there and I know my immunity has worn off by age 74.

Sometimes it's the vaccine or its adjuvants, sometimes it's the person giving the shot. Some are better than others at doing this.

I got the flu shot in left arm and Pneumovax in my right arm. Neither one bothered me except for a bit of soreness. However, I went fishing for a few hours and probably cast about 50 times with right arm. Around 4 PM I couldn't move my right arm. It was very sore and stiff.

I've learned that vaccines and fishing are not compatible.

You could of had the dumb luck of the needle hitting the axillary nerve in the arm. An injection will also hurt worse if you tense the muscle during the injection . Always relax the area that is being injected.

The person who gave me a flu shot the other day told me to move my arm around immediately as it would help avoid soreness the next day.

I just got the flu shot on Thursday and didn't even feel the needle enter my arm. Hours later, the upper arm was a tad sore, but that didn't last more than a day at most. My arm muscle was tense until the Pharmacist said to relax it. Perhaps that made all the difference.