Hi to all that have had a problem with a vaccination and found like me that both a doctor and physio had not heard of Sirva.
The doctor appeared to be defensive when I said I was fine when I walked in when given the injection by the Nurse but not when I walked out and have now been in pain for 8 months and on medication for it.
I like to think I have a high pain threshold yet I would say that my initial pain level out of 10 was a nine and as a consequence could not sleep for weeks after and to date cannot lay on my left side in bed. I will say that the pain and throbbing has reduced dramatically over time.
What is interesting is after the X-ray the doctor and physio were going down the road of well you are a man of 70 who is showing signs of arthritis in his shoulder etc however I pointed out that may be the case but I was showing no signs of pain when I walked in to have the injection but had pain that was more than the stated pain that they tell you after having an injection which in my case multiplied over the follow days.
I am waiting to have an ultra sound at this time to see if if shows anything at this stage so far down the road.
I was interested to hear that the position of the person giving the injection should be they are seated and that one person had a plaster put over the injection site both of which never happened to me, I will research this as I am now due to have a second shingles vacination and to be totally honest am very hesitant as I do not want to go through the same problem again but in the other arm.
When I spoke to my old physio on line he told me that he had dealt with lots of patients who had experienced the same Sirva issues with lots of patients after having the Covid vaccinations .
I would be very interested to hear constructive comments on the above.
Dave
