Gosh this years flu jab has caused issues. I’ve experienced multiple joint pains including in my toes! I am a little flary so this may be coincidence.
The injection site is very very red and burning hot to touch. I also can’t touch the area as it’s so sore. I’m guessing this is a slight reaction to the jab? Has anyone else experienced this. My skin is often reactive because of Behcet’s.
I guess it’s like anything that activates our immune system. I’ve had the flu jab for years and it’s only this year that it’s so sore around the injection site
I’m interested to see someone raise this as a thread!
I had an extreme reaction to this year’s flu jab. I had the flu and pneumococcal jab on Saturday morning, and by Saturday night felt I was coming down with severe flu symptoms and the pain in my arm was unbearable to touch.
By the end of Sunday night I was unable to move, didn’t have the energy to even pick up my phone and contact work so had to ask my dad to do this. I can’t move the injected arm an inch at this point. He thought it might have been a flu reaction as I know this is possible with the jab, but I knew it was something worse.
By Monday I was in a terrible state, barely had the strength to walk and fainted trying to get to the toilet. I went immediately for an emergency GP and they took my blood pressure and looked at my arm (which I was seeing for the first time as it had been so difficult to move and my neck was seizing up - it was hugely swollen with big patches of red). And they said my blood pressure was low and I had all the symptoms of sepsis and sent me straight to hospital.
They admitted me into hospital and gave me IV antibiotics and luckily my symptoms improved a lot over 24 hours. My arm still has pain and patches of redness but it is slowly going away. Was finally discharged yesterday.
In the end they said it may have been an allergic reaction - very scary. I’m 24 and have never been hospitalised for something like this before.
The ridiculous part is I only went to the GP for a B12 injection, but they had run out and it flagged I was due the two I had...
Oh I should add - I had the flu jab in March with no ill effects whatsoever
Oh my goodness you poor thing, that must have been a frightening thing to go through. I’m pretty sure this is an allergic reaction of some kind though not as bad as yours. Weirdly I was also having my b12, they had both so had one in each arm
There is sufficient evidence that Behcets and Pneumoccal DO NOT MIX. Google the two, plenty of scholarly articles. It literally flares you up. Ive read very hit or miss experiences with Flu shot and behcets....hence me opting out this year. I am under a lot of stress and have been close to flaring so I do not want to jinx it. There is evidence that depending on how much you're flaring when receive the flu shot, the less antibodies you make anyways to the strain (it was something like normal people make 89% on average antibodies and behcets was like 59% ...if i remember that correctly). so... worthless in my opinion.
so funny (not really) about the sepsis, I too had sepsis one year off of nothing. fun shet isnt it? please take a probiotic along side the antibiotics. That through me into the worse candida infection ive ever had... although now realizing its done with... still take them 
That’s interesting
I had red raised red swelling around fhe Pneumovax and meningitis vaccine
Sorry too many reds😊
Maybe the right amount of reds with what we experience! I think our skin hates being poked.
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