Covid Vaccine In Your Leg.

[nicelander]

Are you able to have the Covid 19 vaccine in your leg or bottom?
The only reason why I ask is that I have heard the arm can feel extremely dead 12 hours after a jab and I use both whilst working. My legs and bottom I do not.

[barry1010]

No dead arm for any of the five in my family that has had the jab. So now you've heard that the arm won't feel extremely dead :)

[Mamyalynne]

Simplest is to ask nicelander, if they can then they will.

[237SJ]

It might depend where you go to have the jab. You would be alright if a nurse was doing the vaccinating but a lot of vaccinators have trained up just to do the covid jab and would only know how to do the jab in the arm.

[bednobs]

Also, to do an im injection in your bum, the nurse would probably want you to lie down - i would guess most vaccination places do not have the facility for that

[EdmundD]

At my wife's surgery the instruction is to administer it to the upper deltoid i.e. the muscle at the top of the arm. She hasn't seen or head of it being injected anywhere else.

However the Covid-19 Program Guidance For Health Workers says:
"Injection technique

COVID-19 vaccines should be administered by intramuscular (IM) injection, preferably into the deltoid muscle of the upper arm.

Individuals who have minimal muscle mass in the deltoid area of the upper arm, or a particular reason to avoid immunisation in the deltoid muscle, can be given their vaccine in the vastus lateralis muscle in the thigh if necessary. "

So you could try asking to have it in your leg.

[woofgang]

is anyone else singing

"covid vaccine in your leg
doo dah doo dah"

[grumpy01]

Getting mine Wednesday, glad to be getting some defence against Covid-19.

[Vagus]

You may want to be aware that some vaccination places are large sports halls or similar, with no cubicles or screens, just desk and chairs at set intervals. That was the situation for my other half.
I had mine done in a hospital, with individual cubicles.