Aching upper arm months after vaccination

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I'm a bit ill at the moment and weirdly my vaccination site is aching?! I had my second dose in May

Posted too soon! Has anyone else had this? It's been quite a few months since I was fully vaxxed so it's slightly odd.

My DP has it. Hurts still at the site when he stretches it into particular positions. Since May.

I had my second Pfizer in April and my arm still intermittantly aches! I get it especially at night if I've been lying on that side - but it's very specifically been there since the 2nd jab. It was fine after the first.

I'm CEV and expecting to get a booster in the not too distant future. I'm wondering if I should get it in the other arm! I wondered if it was that it hit a nerve or just the way it went into the muscle did something??? Perhaps someone withmore medical knowledge may have more of an idea!

I had a pneumonia jab a couple of years ago and the site still aches slightly if I get run down.

How strange. Maybe it's nerve damage or something?! Might get flu jab in my other arm this year

I always thought this happened to me, but this time I asked for the jab in my right arm as I've just had a baby and sleep on my left.

My left arm is still randomly aching, and I automatically think oh it's the jab and then I realise no, it can't be.

So I think probably my left arm just aches sometimes, perhaps from very mild exercise or usage, and I have previously falsely associated it with vaccinations when it was just a sore arm!

So weird, I had this feeling yesterday. I said to dh that it felt exactly like a post-vaccination soreness.

I have this. I had my second jag in July.

It randomly aches. I wonder why this is!

Yes! I had my 2nd Pfizer in May and every few weeks I get a really achy arm at night at the injection site. Feels like muscle ache!

Yeah, sometimes it seems muscular and sometimes like a sharp twinge. Definitely worse when I'm run down, although thinking about it I did do some exercise the day before I came down with a cold so who knows! I'm pretty sure it's ached before when I've been run down though. So strange.

Not on the injection site but I developed a large hard lump in deep in the arm pit of the arm I had the injection the next day (assume gland but why just that one affected) the lump is gone now but there is still pain if I press or lift something heavy

@liveforsummer I had a very swollen left armpit gland post both Pfizer jabs as well. It lasted for weeks, not pleasant at all. The right side was a bit sore but the left was really bad. Sometimes it still feels tender although not swollen anymore.

I had this after a tetanus vaccine ages ago. I vaugly remember them saying it was probably nerve pain or slight damage from the needle itself rather than what was in it. It doesn't hurt anymore but I couldn't pinpoint exactly when in the years since that it stopped doing it as, like you, it was only in certain positions or if I bumped it.

@RainbowCrayons did you continue to have jabs in that arm or did you switch? And if you did... did it make it any more severe? Can't decide whether to get my booster in the arm which still sometimes hurts or not! (Might end up with 2 aching arms!!)

This is an excellent question @Pebble21uk
I’m having my booster tomorrow- not sure what to do !

@RainbowCrayons

I had this after a tetanus vaccine ages ago. I vaugly remember them saying it was probably nerve pain or slight damage from the needle itself rather than what was in it. It doesn't hurt anymore but I couldn't pinpoint exactly when in the years since that it stopped doing it as, like you, it was only in certain positions or if I bumped it.

I was going to come on to say this. My arm/shoulder is still sore after my 2nd jag in August. I had a look online and is a thing but it's to do with where your vaccinated rather than this being a covid thing so I'm not covered. It's still bloody sore though. Mine feels like a frozen shoulder.

@Pebble21uk I don't think I had another vaccine for a while after that. Not because of that obviously, just that I wasn't due any others and I'm not in the flu jab group and didn't have any exotic holidays planned either.

I had this from my first vaccine, it was still achy when I went for the second, so I had the second in the other arm. It wasn’t so bad in the second arm, but it did make the first arm more sore again. After a few weeks both arms felt fine.

Yes. aZ. For about three or four months after.

Pretty much the same! I've had a cold this past week and for the last couple of days the jab sites been hurting. No idea if the two are connected.

My MIL was saying that after her AZ vaccine she felt like all her old injuries flared up again so maybe it is something to with being under the weather and the injection site flaring up again because of past trauma & muscle/nerve damage? I have no idea if this is an actual possibility though.