boost the vax(x)*
on dec. 7 my brother got his booster, this time at wal-mart. his reasoning was no appointment was needed & we'd be there to shop anyway.
the woman doing the injection put on something called inject-safe barrier bandage. it's designed to keep any blood from the injection site contained and to make it easier for the person giving the shot to dispose of the needle. normally, they're wrestling with the bandage to hurry up and put it on the injection site & sometimes poke the patient with the needle, or themselves. wal-mart & cvs just started using them not long ago. hopefully the barrier part is something that is OK for people. because you know some part of that is pushed in with the needle.
he bleed a bit (he got it in the left arm) & the tech was like "you tensed up a bit, huh?" my brother admitted that he did & then she said; "you're my first bleeder." and he thought; ever? she put an adhesive bandage on the barrier thing just in-case of bleed though.
his arm was hurting a bit and then like 6-8 hours later it hit him.he felt terrible (no specifics other than tired) for 24-36 hours.
i was going to go in the 14th for mine, but had something i needed to to on dec. 15 that i didn't need to deal with side effects for. so i went on dec. 21 to wal-mart as well.
i didn't get the barrier (also got the shot in the left arm), which is just as well since there's nothing to absorb blood. the tech that did mine put on a kids adhesive bandage (llamas on a blue background) & there was almost no blood.
my arm didn't hurt much until 8-ish hours later, then it really hurt. about 12 hours later i got the chills (not anything terrible, kind of like you went out in the fall without a jacket and regretted it), so i put on a long-sleeved shirt & sweat pants. when i wen to be i got warmer and thought about taking them off, bu go another wave of lesser chills & kept them on. this repeated throughout the night. also my stomach felt kind of off, not nauseous exactly, but like it could lead to that. it didn't last long but repeated about another 6 times.
when i got up in the morning the pain in my arm spread to my neck, ear & head all on the left side. i did that thing where you alternate between acetaminophen & ibuprofen which really helped the neck, ear & head. the arm was still hurting for another 36-ish hours, but not as much.
i didn't get the red, itchy area around the injection site 2 days after the shot like i did before, just some redness around it so far.
wal-mart put stickers on your card with the vax(x) name, lot number & expiration date. but it takes up 2 lines on the card & there aren't than many to begin with. if we have to keep getting shots for this thing we're going to have to put the cards in one of those little photo albums with the clear sleeves to see the front and back of them.
*some people use 1 X, some 2.
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the woman doing the injection put on something called inject-safe barrier bandage. it's designed to keep any blood from the injection site contained and to make it easier for the person giving the shot to dispose of the needle. normally, they're wrestling with the bandage to hurry up and put it on the injection site & sometimes poke the patient with the needle, or themselves. wal-mart & cvs just started using them not long ago. hopefully the barrier part is something that is OK for people. because you know some part of that is pushed in with the needle.
he bleed a bit (he got it in the left arm) & the tech was like "you tensed up a bit, huh?" my brother admitted that he did & then she said; "you're my first bleeder." and he thought; ever? she put an adhesive bandage on the barrier thing just in-case of bleed though.
his arm was hurting a bit and then like 6-8 hours later it hit him.he felt terrible (no specifics other than tired) for 24-36 hours.
i was going to go in the 14th for mine, but had something i needed to to on dec. 15 that i didn't need to deal with side effects for. so i went on dec. 21 to wal-mart as well.
i didn't get the barrier (also got the shot in the left arm), which is just as well since there's nothing to absorb blood. the tech that did mine put on a kids adhesive bandage (llamas on a blue background) & there was almost no blood.
my arm didn't hurt much until 8-ish hours later, then it really hurt. about 12 hours later i got the chills (not anything terrible, kind of like you went out in the fall without a jacket and regretted it), so i put on a long-sleeved shirt & sweat pants. when i wen to be i got warmer and thought about taking them off, bu go another wave of lesser chills & kept them on. this repeated throughout the night. also my stomach felt kind of off, not nauseous exactly, but like it could lead to that. it didn't last long but repeated about another 6 times.
when i got up in the morning the pain in my arm spread to my neck, ear & head all on the left side. i did that thing where you alternate between acetaminophen & ibuprofen which really helped the neck, ear & head. the arm was still hurting for another 36-ish hours, but not as much.
i didn't get the red, itchy area around the injection site 2 days after the shot like i did before, just some redness around it so far.
wal-mart put stickers on your card with the vax(x) name, lot number & expiration date. but it takes up 2 lines on the card & there aren't than many to begin with. if we have to keep getting shots for this thing we're going to have to put the cards in one of those little photo albums with the clear sleeves to see the front and back of them.
*some people use 1 X, some 2.
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