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Top tips for your initial doctor visit after a vaccine injury

Your medical treatment is not just important for your recovery. It is critically important if you want to seek compensation for your injury.
Following these tips will help.

The Initial Visit

The Course of Treatment

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Visit a medical professional as soon as possible if you suspect you've suffered a vaccine injury.

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Be sure to tell the doctor the following important information:

  • how you sustained your vaccine injury, in detail, especially any noteworthy or unusual details you recall about the vaccination (e.g., the injection was extremely painful, the shot was high on the shoulder, the pharmacist was in a rush, etc.)

  • each symptom and its severity

  • the date your symptoms started

  • the date of the vaccination

  • if you did not have symptoms prior to the vaccination, be sure to mention that too

3

Follow all the doctor’s treatment instructions, including promptly scheduling any follow up appointments

4

If you visit any other medical provider, even for an issue not directly related to your vaccination or your vaccine injury, be sure to mention what you are going through with your vaccine injury: your symptoms, the vaccination, and your treatment efforts.

Ongoing Treatment: What to Expect

  1. Vaccine shoulder injuries often do not resolve without treatment

  2. Your doctor may have several steps to treatment, starting with the least invasive and working up.

  3. Common medical treatment for SIRVA injuries includes:

    • x-ray and MRI scans

    • prescription medication, including anti-inflammatories, pain medication, and oral steroids

    • physical therapy

    • steroid injections

    • surgery in severe cases

Shoulder Treatment
Doctor

What if my doctor doesn’t believe the vaccine shot caused my injury?

Clients often express anxiety to tell doctors that they were injured by a vaccine shot. This can happen for many reasons, including the fact that many people have safely received many vaccinations in the past with no problems, they have never heard of someone suffering an injury because of a vaccine shot, or they do not want to appear to be against vaccinations.

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SIRVA injuries are rare, but they are very real.

 

 

Most doctors are well aware of SIRVA injuries. But it is true that occasionally some do not. Also, sometimes doctors can give a patient the impression that they do not believe vaccine shots can cause injuries, even if they actually do. 

 

 

If you feel your doctor is not listening to you or is not taking your concerns seriously, you should find a doctor who will.

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But be aware that in the uncommon event that your doctor actually does not believe your shoulder symptoms were caused by a vaccination, that will not prevent you from recovering under the Vaccine Act. As long as the doctor is appropriately treating you and helping you get better, that is what is most important.

Shoulder Injury Compensation

Are you entitled to compensation for your flu shot or vaccine related shoulder injury?

Book a free consultation with a legal expert to understand your options.

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