Thanks for the tip. Since I may be an auntie in the near future, I will have to look into that.

They told us no one not known to be vaccinated should be allowed in the vicinity of the babies for six months.

Washington state has a lot of cases this spring.

but the record showed that the pertussis was only good for 7 years in my last shot and that time was up so I rolled up my sleeve. For some reason my arm was also sore for a lot longer than I remember past immunizations. I can only assume it hit a nerve or something. Took a week to fully subside.

But oh-so-worth a little arm discomfort when you go and look at those little ones you are helping to protect.

My arm was not sore at all from the injection.

and were shocked at how sore our arms were. Check with your doctor, but I think you can take some OTC pain killer.

the on call nurse said that was normal for this shot. Tetanus alone is usually quite painful, perhaps the combo just amps it up.

Glad it is only once a decade.....

I was visiting there, and as a mass immunization program had been organized, I went along. Had I had a tetanus shot recently? the nurse asked. Why yes, I said, just about exactly a year ago. Oh well, we'll give you another one, she said. It was a combo too.

Well, over the next week, my arm got sorer and sorer, and finally a week later I was having dinner with a friend who was a public health nurse. Arm, sore, ow, I whined, and told her what the nurse had asked, presumably with a reason. Well have another one next year, my friend said, and see how that feels.

It seems there's a reason tetanus boosters are recommended for only every 10 years.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tetanus-shots/AN01497

married and he cut his shoulder on some duct work and i slashed a finger in the garden!

after a feral cat I was taming bit my nose, we checked my records, and sure enough, it had been 5 years (the period recommended at the time) since I'd had a tetanus shot ... for cat bite on nose. Bastards.

The shot I'd just had before the polio booster was in Havana. Tripped and fell into the slimy gutter. Went back to my hotel room to clean up, dripping blood from my knee, and an elevator full of people kept pointing and clucking and finger-wagging and saying "tétano! inyección!" so I went to a clinic. If I did that at home every time I fell down I'd spend my life in clinics (although I do occasionally make it to the ER with broken bones). But in tropical slime, the booster and antibiotic were wise. The xray may have been a little over the top, but the doctor was more than happy to have an English-speaking patient to converse with.

I just read at your subject line more attentively.

I had some injections a few years ago for fertility procedures. One was so painful after the fact. I felt like someone had slammed a hammer into my arm. But, then when I had to repeat the shot the next month... nothing.

I think the nurse hit a nerve or some other flukey thing happened.

The same has happened for flu shots. One year, pain. The follow up years, nothing.