Flu and Covid jabs in the same arm….

annsixty I've had a mastectomy and lymph node clearance and never allow that arm to be used for vaccinations or the taking of blood pressure.

But personally I think that having 2 vaccines on the same day is too much for the body to handle, especially if the patient has other health concerns. I am having my Covid booster at the surgery and the 'flu one a week later at Boots.... but then I'm juggling a lot of health conditions including M.E.

Went today and they had run out! Re-booked for 4th October.

Man said that they had the funding cut after the spring booster and had to release staff .

So now they are short of jabs and staff.

I had both in the same arm last time on the same day and the nurse said it was fine. I was absolutely OK

I think I am right in saying that flu vacc can be given in the thigh - perhaps worth asking if you are concerned.

I had mine in the same arm last Autumn, and both at the same time, two separate needles. I was fine afterwards and only had the usual sore arm for a couple of days.

Had our Saturday the nurse said she wasn’t allowed to put both injections in one arm

When you say cleared do you mean removed?

I posted this link on a recent similar thread:

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/covid-booster-flu-shot-arm-soreness/671444/

Which arm gets picked for which shot, though, will affect where the jab’s contents end up. After a vaccine is injected, its immunity-inducing ingredients meander to the nearest lymph node, such as the ones in the armpits. There, hordes of immune cells fight over the vaccine’s bits, and the fittest and fiercest among them are selected to leave the lymph node and fight. Here, again, doubling up on one arm shouldn’t be an issue, Goel said: The immune-cell boot camps in these lymph nodes have “a good amount of real estate.”

Read the whole article as it discusses more about how immune cells work and the arguments about having vaccines separately or at the same time, in the same arm or different arms.

Perhaps talk to a nurse about having the vaccinations in another part of your body?

I have, always been fine. I've had skin cancer on one arm and don't want to aggregate the tissue as it can get really itchy.