Lainey

Harsher side effects

buckeyesue

Since you got the older vaccine fairly recently, you will probably be protected for some time.

I, however, had the original shingles vaccine in 2009, so it is possible that I did not have much protection against shingles anymore from the older vaccine.

dlq04

Mine is 10 years old as well, so they claim its lost it value.

Lainey

Not that the arm wasn't red and swollen, it was. However, I realized that the bull's eye in the middle was actually the scar from the small pox vaccine I got as a kid! We kind of forget about these things from old vaccines.

buckeyesue

Lainey, when I saw the photos of your arm, my first thought was a scar from the smallpox vaccine, but I was thinking that the scar (?) on the more upper part of your arm might be from the smallpox vaccine.

I'm sure that many of us know where our smallpox vaccine is. Mine is on the underside of my upper left arm...you know, the flabby part.

I wonder if they administered it correctly. Seems that it should have been on the upper outer part of my arm. Oh well...I guess it is okay, since smallpox had been eradicated long ago.

I'm thinking I was re-vaccinated for smallpox again somewhere around 1967 or so when I took a medical microbiology course in college. I'd have to check those records, but it's not worth the bother of digging them out now.

Lainey

Sue, the scar on the upper arm is from the shoulder surgery. One of the "access areas" for the arthroscopic surgery.

MsPerky

Good news...the pharmacy just called and they got to me on the waiting list. Getting the vaccine tomorrow.

buckeyesue

Sounds good.

I have a friend here in Ohio who just got hers last week at her pharmacy. I think she had been on the waiting list since last summer!

S1997

S1997