Does anyone have any experience with Shoulder Injury Relating to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA)?

Tori_Scope said:

Hi @LancsRose, I just wanted to note that volunteers administering the vaccine do have to go through quite a robust training programme before they're allowed to administer the vaccine. As the St John's Ambulance website outlines:

All volunteers will meet strict selection criteria, mandated by the NHS, and receive appropriate clinical training. This includes official courses developed in partnership with and approved by NHS England. As well as extensive training, they will be subject to assessments and clinical supervision to ensure their own safety and that of everyone receiving the vaccine.

As you say, it's important to encourage everyone who's able to to have the vaccine. Incidences of SIRVA are fortunately rare, but I'm sorry you and a couple of other users have experienced pain after your vaccines.

I hope that the Neurontin does the trick, but definitely do go back to see your doctor if the pain doesn't improve.

Hi! Can I just throw something out here about the training. Only because I have a few friends in the nursing profession who have been vaccinating in their spare time and who have commented to me that their injection training aims to target the upper arm/shoulder area and my one friend in particular said that she was ignoring this advice. She has been giving injections to children for years and has never come across aiming the injection so high before. I would really like to know why this is the case. All my previous flu jabs have been much lower down. My 2nd jab was fine albeit that was very high in my good arm (right). I'm still in daily pain with my left arm, especially first thing in the morning but I think I can safely say, the pain has reduced in intensity. I've been doing the exercises recommended above by chiarieds ? and I think the gravity element does work

The latest figures are now 67 million vaccines have been done including 27 million second doses and the incidence of any prolonged problems seems extremely low.

Hi I had my second jab on 6 April and now the pain in my shoulder leaves me in agony I cannot move when it kicks in,  after a while I manage to move the pain is still really bad but I have to get moving with windmill action it takes ages to ease the pain you are scared to move so yes it does exist don't be fob off

Hi @rachaellouise - & welcome to the forum. Pleased you realised your problem was due to misadministration of the vaccine & not the vaccine itself. As an intramuscular vaccine it should be given into the deltoid muscle & not near the shoulder joint itself. I don't think it's a matter of the person being stood up & you sat down, which I feel is how any vaccine would be normally administered, but unfortunately in some not being injected in the right area. Please do try the gravity assisted exercise I mention above to aid your shoulder mobilisation, as well as contacting your GP.

I saw my mri today. It showed the vaccine had been incorrectly injected into the teres minor muscle and not the deltoid muscle.  There is still lots of fluid.  Going to discuss whether i can have steroid injection or not. Other than that, its just physio and time.

Hi All,

Sorry to hear about the pain and discomfort that some of you are suffering but also comforted to know that i am not alone.  Getting 2nd Jab next week and will now insist on an injection in my thigh after being in constant pain since 24th March.

Pain is not constant...as long as i dont move my arm too much and am sleeping ok.  Pain killers and ibuleve gel not really having much impact.....but time does seem to be a big healer.

When walking my dog and he decides to bolt on the rare occassion that i have the lead in my left hand pain is 10/10 and i feel like i could almost pass out.  

Will check in later to see how you are all faring and will look at the videos and give the exercises a go, although  i am rubbish at keeping up with physio

Best of luck all.....

Hi everyone
I have had three months of pain from SIRVA as a result of the covid vaccine needle and it has changed the way I live.  I went from yoga fit elasto woman to crippled arm and no guaranteed light at the end of the tunnel.  
My GP was not interested enough to see me or even refer me to someone else and insisted- it couldn't be related to the vaccine shot. Well I know darn well that it was. Since then I have been left paddling my own canoe and it has been an interesting journey down the rapids.

 I have been to three consequent health care professionals, two of which were physiotherapists.  All reported experience of knowing other patients with this very problem, albeit via the flu vaccine, but the result is the same; since we are discussing needle damage not vaccine related. It's clearly not as rare as some people believe.
 All three professionals were extremely helpful and informative and each was aware that it can take a long time to heal. One said that the only other way I could have damaged that particular muscle was from a high powered over head serve with a tennis racket. (I don't even own one).

Yes, it is clearly rare but if you rub beneath the surface you can find a lot about this subject. One doctor(not in the uk) claimed it occurs on average once in every 2000 jabs. Well no wonder it happens with flu jabs as this is a very commonly used vaccine but what does that mean statistically for the 72,891,861 covid shots injected so far.? I am guessing there are going to be a fair number of casualties. 
My advice is go and report it on the yellow card system,  
 This is not about scaring people in to not having the vaccine.  Regardless of the fear I did have my second jab but I insisted on a qualified nurse.
My sympathy is with you all, don't give up looking for a cure and if you find it, please let me know what it is.