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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I don't remember the jabs at all. I don't have a scar so chances are I didn't have it. Not sure  I'm currently suffering from the Hep A jab - arm aches  Wouldn't mind but I was told it's one jab and then the nurse who did it said two - the second in six months  Why's it so hard to get accurate info these days? |
It is one jab. The one jab protects you for 12 months. If you have a second in 6 months time, the cummulative pair of jabs protect you for 10 years.
I had the three main ones plus the oral one done at once as I was going off to Asia on about 2 weeks notice. They made me sit in the drs for about 45 mins after that lot.
Key trick the nurse taught me was to have your arm resting on something when they inject. That way the muscles are not supporting the arm and are relaxed, this means the injection is less painful and causes less bruising.
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Originally Posted by punky
They gave you a skin (heef?) test, where they stamp your arm with what is like a small ink stamper, but actually plunges 6 needles into your arm. This is to see if you are one of the few people with a natural immunity to it.
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Do they still do this. I remember this being a conveyer belt type operation and all of us getting stabbed with the same set of needles. I guess in this post HIV world we live in that is not how it works these days (or perhaps my memory of this particular stabbing is a little hazy now).