Posted by: Ciel
« on: November 10, 2012, 02:18:50 PM »Last year I had no reaction at all to the flu shot, but this year I had a large red welt about the size of my open palm around the injection site. It took over a week to go away. In 2008 I had the same localized swelling and welts -- Anxiety over the possibility of escalation with further exposures prevented me from getting a flu shot in 2009 & 2010, until my respirologist gave me a stern lecture last year and I decided to heed his advice. I do not have a history of anaphylaxis with egg & have only ever reacted mildly to ingestion of actual egg protein. There are just so many factors and variables with this kind of stuff. My brain feels soggy with trying to understand sometimes.