I had some injections recommended as I'm travelling to Taiwan in the near future. The jabs nurse OK'd the jabs as suitable for someone with RA on all the meds I'm on and the vaccines weren't live. I had typhoid in one arm and diptheria, tetanus & polio in the other. I have really bad pain in both upper arms and shoulders and now most of my other joints seem to be flaring too. Has anyone else had a similar experience after vaccinations. Thanks from Naomi, X

Hi Naomi, I can remember feeling like this when I had my first flu jab and after my hep B jabs when I was working. I also may be wrong but when my children had their polio vaccines at school I queried about the polio being a live vaccine as I was on mtx and the school nurse told me they are not live anymore.

Bevxx

PS I have just found an article on the nras website called immunisations and ra which might be helpful.

Ooooh owwww Naomi sounds owchy!

The immune trigger by the vaccine gives you immunity so it has potential to annoy the ra.
The live vAccines are the ones to watch for. I think yellow fever is a live one.
But the thing to do is ring the rheumatology nurses.

My uncle is retiring at the end of the month, he and my aunt are off on some cruises.
He's just had to have yellow fever and he's felt dreadful after it!
He doesn't have ra

But his joints ached etc.
Perhaps it's the vaccines effect themselves?