Is my injection site supposed to hurt?!


Question: it kinda hurt when i was getting the injection and he told me my arm will feel heavy and a little painful for a few days. its about 5 hours after the injection and i just came back from work where i was always moving around and using my arms. it is not hurting at all, like i never had the injection. why?


Answers: it kinda hurt when i was getting the injection and he told me my arm will feel heavy and a little painful for a few days. its about 5 hours after the injection and i just came back from work where i was always moving around and using my arms. it is not hurting at all, like i never had the injection. why?

The pain is normally a response from bacteria on the skin being forced into the body. That's why they always swab and injection site before starting. The needle always pushes in a tiny, tiny bit of skin which can have germs on it which can make your arm hurt.

Swelling and other symptoms are a result of an allergic response that must be treated immediately.

No pain, no swelling. You're obviously a very clean person who has very few allergies.

Good Health.

If it's not hurting, I wouldn't worry about it.

It sort of depends on the vaccination you got, really. Some are worse for causing injection site tenderness than others. To begin with, you are putting a lot of something into a spot where it's not supposed to be, and there isn't a lot of spare room to start with. So the fluid you inject cramps things in the area up and they naturally complain about the crowding. You read that as being tender, sore, stiff- etc. If the injection is going in to a muscle, you irritate the muscle- which of course complains as well, until the material is absorbed by the body. Movement raises the demand for blood flow to the muscle, which in turn absorbs the injected material faster. It's pretty common advice when you give an injection to somebody to move that part around as much and as often as they possibly can, just to limit the soreness they will feel. The injection site isn't supposed to hurt, it just does sometimes. How long it hurst varies depending on the injection, the site and the person. You were fortunate, and should count your blessings. Some, like tetanus- can hurt for days afterwards, and the one's in the tush can really be tough on the personality.





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