• @[email protected]
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    3010 months ago

    Tetanus is fucking terrifying. I’m happy to have chemicals to protect me from that.

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 months ago

      My last tetanus shot hurt for 3 weeks straight. But I ended up not breaking my spine with muscle convulsions, so I think it’s a pretty good trade off.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        That’s probably on whoever gave you the shot. If you hit fat or a tendon with an IM shot it hurts for a while.

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            110 months ago

            Yeah, I have to do testosterone shots, and my left leg doesn’t seem to have any good spots, so it usually has a painful knot for like 10 days.

    • Lev_Astov
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      110 months ago

      It’s not chemicals that protect from tetanus; it’s the dead tetanus bacterium the vaccine contains that train the immune system to recognize the threat.