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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI absolutely believe in vaccination. But I hate getting my tetanus shot. :-(
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
(20,876 posts)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
(33,355 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)It was in 2012 and they got me again and wow did it ever make me sick!
RobinA
(9,893 posts)I can remember my last tetanus shot and it was 40 years ago? That thing hurts!
Aristus
(66,388 posts)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
(50,950 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)ret5hd
(20,499 posts)Do you think maybe some of the reason there are only 30/yr is because of vaccinations?
CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)ret5hd
(20,499 posts)Maybe we can dispense with those vaccines as well.
CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)n/t
ret5hd
(20,499 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)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
(28,209 posts).
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
(20,876 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2019, 10:38 AM - Edit history (1)
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
(3,131 posts)I can think of some representatives that would be better not talking.
Raftergirl
(1,287 posts)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 McDonalds milk shakes - so Id have at least something heavy in my stomach taking so many meds.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)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. Didnt mean to remind you.
Raftergirl
(1,287 posts)And we all wish they would STFU or better yet - get thrown onto the garbage heap of history in 2020.
marlakay
(11,476 posts)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
(22,822 posts)all. Knowing how severe shingles is, neither of us would hesitate to do it agin.
marlakay
(11,476 posts)I have those cloth blue cold packs that I used and worked great.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)a shot before, OUCH - I swear to you, months later now, theres 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-80s, and it like to took him out...shingles are NO GOOD
Youll be fine, my friend!!
marlakay
(11,476 posts)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 didnt have to think of my health so much. Have other things going on too but nothing real bad.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)all at once!! Booooo!! - but youll do what you gotta and it will all be in your rear view mirror pronto!
Hang tough, mar!
ellie
(6,929 posts)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
(1,287 posts)wasnt 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
(4,982 posts)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
(10,884 posts)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
(51,308 posts)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. Im really bad about stepping on stuff lol. But Ill stay barefoot forever.
Thyla
(791 posts)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
(10,168 posts)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
(9,446 posts)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
(66,388 posts)The guns hurt like crazy!
TheBlackAdder
(28,209 posts).
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
(62,423 posts)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.