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I took a mandatory flu shot at work Oct. 19, 2009 on my left arm. I had chills and a fever of 102* along with left arm aching pain, and a bout of severe low back pain within the first 2 weeks after receiving the shot. All other symptoms have since dissipated except for the severe low back pain and a strange wobbliness in my legs. The low back pain is bad enough to where I could not move by myself for a week, and now cannot really sit or bend without a high degree of constant pain.
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I had a flu shot over a month ago, durning the night of my flu shot, my lower back became increasingly more and more achy and when I woke up I was in pretty good lower back pain. Here I am over a month later and I still am suffering from the same lower back pain, only it is getting worse, Bending hurts, sometimes I can't even do that. Sitting, walking, standing hurts, driving is painful let alone getting out of the truck. Nothing and I mean nothing is working to take this away. I will never get a flu shot again it was my first one ever and my last.
November 20, 2014 - 4:38amThis Comment
I got a flu shot on Nov. 3rd at a Costco and about 45 minutes later I had severe kidney/lower back pain. It was an immediate onset and 5 days later, the pain is still so severe that I cannot bend or get in and out of my car.
November 8, 2014 - 9:29pmThis Comment
i have lower back pain...3 weeks after shot...
November 6, 2014 - 8:34pmThis Comment
I have had vevere lower back pain since receiving the flu shot 3 days ago.
November 1, 2014 - 8:02amThis Comment
I got the mandatory flu shot and developed fever and aching the same afternoon. Several days later developed significant lower back pain. I couldn't tell if it was muscle pain or kidneys. Went to the doc in the box and not kidneys. Steroids, icing, and muscle relaxers have helped but still not completely gone a week and a half later. A coworker also developed lower back pain a day after flu shot.
October 2, 2014 - 7:25pmThis Comment
I had a flu vaccine in January 2013 and have had horrific medical bills since. I started with intense muscle stinging in upper back, went into pin pricks in feet, burning feet on the bottoms, then it went systemic with pin pricks in hands and face, weak left arm and toes going numb. Starting March 10 severe crippling lower back pain inhibiting my movement and bending over. Had a cat scan and no kidney stones. It is hard to walk too far as the burning returns. Now it is April and the pain is still with me, lessened a little but still inhibits my movement. I am putting in a vaccine adverse reaction report to find out if it was a bad batch.
April 16, 2013 - 11:07amThis Comment
Yes, my aunt had similar symptoms after getting the flu shot in 2013
January 8, 2014 - 3:32amThis Comment
I've been taking a mandated flu shot for my job every year and every year about two weeks to a month later after taking the shot I begin to experience slight back problems, and then it escalates to severe pain. Soon as I take the shot I automatically get chills aches pain and flu like symptoms then my lower back starts to hurt slightly for a week or month then it gradually gets worse where my lower back hurts and it feels like my kidneys hurt sometimes right sometimes left bit mostly on my right side , I can't walk sometimes and I've missed work months at a time , I've gotten steroid injections taken every back pain or muscle real acre under the sun seen chiropractors and had be seen physical therapists. It's just now that I'm noticing the pattern of how same time each year after I take the flu shot I get like this. Is lower back pain a side affect of the flu vaccine?
November 22, 2014 - 6:36amThis Comment
I got this year's flu shot and have severe muscle back pain that will not go away. I am living on Tylenol and Advil everyday and the pain is worsen when I sleep. Anyone with the same symptoms, please advise.
November 5, 2012 - 4:22amThis Comment
Yes, since my flu shot, I have had unexplained back pains. It appears after I have been sleeping for a few hours, around 3 a.m., every night. Very strange because I can work out, lift my grandchild and conduct my normal activities during the day, but I get them every night.
Go figure!!
Francine, Montreal, Quebec
January 10, 2013 - 1:09pmThis Comment