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NurseJackie

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8. First year for getting the "senior" flu shot...

Wed Oct 23, 2019, 09:38 AM

Oct 2019

... also the first year that my injection site turned blue. A huge silver-dollar sized bruise. That's never happened before.

Was it the fault of the pharmacist who gave me the injection? (It didn't hurt when he did it.) Is it just my old skin and bones getting older/thinner/frailer?

Or was it something in the serum that caused it?

It doesn't hurt... the bruise looks much worse than the ordinary discomfort one has from injections. But it's just weird. (Hubby's injection site was just fine.)

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"Senior" flu shot [View all] lillypaddle Oct 2019 OP

I didn't know there was a senior flu shot. Croney Oct 2019 #1

They may have given you the stronger dose lillypaddle Oct 2019 #5

I was curious so I logged on to my dr's office portal. Croney Oct 2019 #7

In St. Louis and they were out here but have since Sherman A1 Oct 2019 #2

Got mine at the VA, as usual... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #3

My pharmacy was out, but got restocked yesterday. Delmette2.0 Oct 2019 #4

Kaiser in Denver had the same problem. DavidDvorkin Oct 2019 #6

First year for getting the "senior" flu shot... NurseJackie Oct 2019 #8

It's cause you're special lillypaddle Oct 2019 #9

LOL! That makes me feel better, thanks! NurseJackie Oct 2019 #10

The quadrivalent vaccine I got at my MD has no senior dose per his nurse. Yonnie3 Oct 2019 #11

I guess they just didn't make enough of it lillypaddle Oct 2019 #12

There never was a senior dose for the quadrivalent vaccine, so there is no shortage. Yonnie3 Oct 2019 #13

Well, that's interesting lillypaddle Oct 2019 #14