So I got a vaccination injection but a lot of fluid and blood immediately welled right out of the injection site (left shoulder deltoid.) I think the phlebotomist hit a blood vessel with the needle. Seems like half of the vaccine’s contents just leaked right out.
Is the shot still effective? Do vaccinations usually need the full dosage to work?
IANAD but I believe you can get a blood test to check to see if the correct antibodies have developed.
Which vaccine was it? I’m kind of surprised they didn’t re-vax you.
Medical advice is best suited to IMHO.
Colibri
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Best practice; ask a doctor. Second best; check with a pharmacist. My understanding is that how various vaccines are dosed and all varies somewhat.
Just a comment, but you know that no doctor or pharmacist is going to know the answer to this question. Like, at all. Any of them. The only way to find out is to (a) look at research on the particular vaccine. (b) look at the relative effectiveness of different dosing levels measured during clinical trials.
Be aware that it’s a crap shoot. Plenty of vaccines would work at a lower dosage, but even with full dose, a certain percentage (for some vaccines, 10-20 percent or more) of people don’t benefit from the vaccine anyway. The only way to know if it worked in your case is to measure the antibodies.
Whether it’s worse the hassle is : are you likely to die if you get sick with the disease the vaccine is protecting against?
At least a couple of people have said you should undergo testing to see if the vaccine took effect.
Why?
If there is doubt, just get another dose of the vaccine, unless your doctor says that an additional dose is harmful. I don’t understand why you would want to go to the extra time, expense, and risk of doing testing (again, unless there is a reason not to administer a second dose). Why poke, take blood, and run tests if you can just get another shot, which you might end up doing anyway (again, unless there is reason not to administer a second dose)?
What kind of health care professional delivers this shot and doesn’t notice/remark/advise on a lot of it oozing back out? And why wouldn’t you be asking questions of that person, right then?
It’s not uncommon in America to get vaccinations in places like drug stores, supermarkets, or Walmarts. Some of the people delivering these vaccinations may not be at the top-tier of the health care profession.
I am wondering about that statement and the reasoning thereof. Not debating it; just curious where it comes from.
I meant off the top of their head. No pharmacist or doctor that sees patients is likely to even be an expert on vaccines. Maybe if you went to see the head of infectious disease at a major hospital, they might actually have an idea what the answer was. Everyone else would have to look it up, and they probably wouldn’t be any better at it than a layman with google. Whether or not half a dose is likely to have worked is very specific information that may not even be available. There simply might not be any study where they tried smaller doses for the vaccine in question.
Is this is a follow-up to these threads?
That’s what I assumed.
Quick test: fill a glass with water. Gaze at it. Does it fill you with existential dread? If not, you don’t have rabies.
So, if I understood the original thread, no doctor was willing to prescribe rabies shots, because you didn’t need them. Later, you started asking questions about the consequences of getting the wrong rabies shots, or getting injected at the wrong time or in the wrong order, or something. Now you’re asking what happens if an injection gets screwed up.
So, care to give us the whole story? Are you injecting yourself with something? Rabies vaccine from Mexico? Rabies vaccine for dogs? Homeopathic rabies vaccine?
Or, feel free to keep going with the mysterious teaser threads every few weeks, it’s quite entertaining trying to guess what on earth you are doing.
OK – makes sense. Thanks!
I feel like we need to introduce him to the dog-ass-valium woman, it seems like a match made in questionable-medical-practice heaven.
the what?
Oh please, tell this story
I haven’t been following this saga, really. Has it really been several weeks that this has been going on? Rabies, from all I’ve ever heard, is a very fast, very deadly, and very gruesome disease. If it’s been several weeks and OP isn’t dead yet, I would guess he’s probably out of the woods by now.
This thread touches on the dog ass valium sharing and general ‘lets just pass around pills’ attitude:
The lawsuit threads were also… interesting:
Well … it’s not that fast. SOP for a bite from an otherwise healthy, vaccinated, dog is to quarantine him for 10 days and wait and see what happens. You don’t need to start the rabies treatment unless the dog is sick - and even then you still might wait a few days for a lab confirmation. (The lab test is always fatal to the animal; that’s why for otherwise healthy, vaccinated, beasts, they do the quarantine first). You don’t have to panic and start the full treatment as soon as you’ve been bit.
That’s where Velocity keeps tripping up. He was agitating for the full treatment from the word go, despite the advice of his medical professionals, and eventually got some vaccine that keeps causing him problems.