Getting my whopping cough vaccine next week is there anything I need to know like sore arm as I need to get some work done on the computer ? x

[kellykelly76]

I have a lot of assignments to get done and I know some injections give sore arm is that the case with this one ? Also does it make you feel a bit run down ?

@kellykelly76 had mine done and straight back to work afterwards, arm was a little sore for 2 days but not to the point where typing was challenging as long as my laptop was on a table.

Sore arm but it didn’t stop me from doing anything .

My GP told me that it isn’t a live vaccine so there are no symptoms so you’ll feel fine!!

I had a sore arm after mine but it was more things touching it, so lying on it in bed, that was sore rather than being unable to use it.

I felt fine after mine, went straight back to work

If you haven't had one before it's fine, if you have a second within 10 years (if you get pregnant again) then the second one is quite stinging, but still probably won't stop you been able to work.

It really hurt my arm both times, but not until the day after. Also felt pretty run down but was able to work fine.

I was fine directly afterwards aside from a slightly sore but useable arm. However I felt really unwell and run down the next day, to the extent that I left work mid afternoon. I was better by the next day.

Yes it gives a sore arm so laying on it in bed can hurt but it's not so sore as to stop you typing etc xx

I just struggled with it in bed, not actually doing anything with it. You should be fine :)

My arm felt a bit aches the next day. It was nothing that stopped me from being able to do anything though.

@ForeverBubblegum

If you haven't had one before it's fine, if you have a second within 10 years (if you get pregnant again) then the second one is quite stinging, but still probably won't stop you been able to work.

I found the other way round. I had five in four years and the first one stung and my arm hurt for days but subsequent ones didn’t even leave me with a bruised feeling.

I had mine a few weeks ago and wouldn't have known - no soreness at all.

My arm was achey for two days and I felt like a zombie

Yeh gotta agree with above. I was zonked for days after getting it. But then it might have been the usual for how many weeks pregnant I was then and it was a coincidence just. And my arm really hurt to touch like a bee sting/ raised and hot but no weakness so didn't stop me doing anything except sleeping on that side.

Tiny bit of pain if I pressed directly against the site (or lay on that side) that lasted maybe two days. No fatigue.

If you've had Whopping Cough do you need the vaccination? I had it 5 years ago.

@Hathats yes you have it with each pregnancy to give the new baby anti bodies as it's for them not you xx

If you've had Whopping Cough do you need the vaccination? I had it 5 years ago.

Yes, they are essentially vaccinating the baby via you so they have anti bodies to last until they can be vaccinated themselves. That's why it needs done at a certain stage of pregnancy, to have that result.

It's literally a tiny injection you'll be fine to type etc.

Mine was slightly achy if I lay on it in bed for a couple of days but otherwise totally fine and it was so quick I barely noticed they'd done it!

It is quite a major jag as they put in a tetanus and I want to say polio as well (though thought that was one under the tongue). They make you sit for a bit after to check you are ok. I felt a little woozy but was fine to work. My arm did ache for 2 days. More like a pulled muscle or if someone had given you a dead arm. If you raise your arm out to the side it feels like a muscle pull. Shouldn't stop you working.

not whooping cough vaccine, but I had a few vaccines this year via a 'catch up' exercise and I got a sore arm, but nothing as bad as to
stop me doing anything.
if it does hurt you can take paracetamol.