Pneumococcal 23-polyvalent vaccine and Back Pain: What Users Say

• Bar...
• August 14, 2018

For Pneumococcal Disease Prophylaxis "Fever, chills, chest and back pain plus slight dizzy feeling. Before taking this pneumonia 23 vaccine, the person should be advised of side effects. I'm on the 5th day, and I am still quite ill! Would not advise anyone to subject themselves to this. Have never had any reaction to a vaccine until now."

• Tmo...
• October 28, 2015

For Pneumococcal Disease Prophylaxis "I got the injection on a Thursday, and it was very sore, hard to lift things. I got chills, along with back pain. Also, the following Tuesday, I was at work, and I got this intense itchy feeling at the injection site. When I checked it, I had a huge, red, hard, half-dollar-sized welt on the injection site. When I checked it again on Wed., I saw it had doubled in size. I have been icing it and going to see my doctor if I wake up this Thursday and it still hurts and has gotten larger."

• Bar...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• November 20, 2021

For Pneumococcal Disease Prophylaxis "I received the vaccine pneumococcal 23 again 3 days ago. I had also had the same vaccine in January of 2018. It was advised since I'm 80 to have this as a booster. I thought the original shot would have lasted longer. The prior vaccine shot only gave me a very sore arm at the site. This time, however, was much worse! Not only a sore arm, but the next day my whole mid-drift area was stiff and sore. The pain then moved to my back and under my rib cage. I've called my primary care and taken Aleve and extra strength Tylenol, but nothing has touched the pain! I'm hopeful that it will somehow go away. I should have never taken the booster vaccine. I was feeling fine before I got the vaccine...."

• Ric...
• Taken for less than 1 month
• January 20, 2022

Pneumococcal 23-polyvalent vaccine for Pneumococcal Disease Prophylaxis "Severe lower back pain developed after a week, had to get a series of three steroid injections over a period of five weeks. Never had I ever had to go through such a thing in all of my 69 years."